「安静故事」展览开幕，图片致谢保利香港艺术空间
Opening Reception of Tranquil Tales,
Courtesy of Poly Gallery Hong Kong
艺术家张凯的最新个展「安静故事」已于3月25日在保利香港艺术空间盛大开幕。本次展览由凯旋画廊与保利香港拍卖携手呈献，集合张凯横跨2012年到2024年的15件作品，呈现画家张凯脑海中 “一场安静的故事” 。
本次展览将持续至4月2日。
Artist Zhang Kai's latest solo exhibition Tranquil Tales has held an opening reception on March 25 at Poly Gallery Hong Kong. This exhibition co-presented by Triumph Gallery and Poly Auction Hong Kong, assembles 15 artworks by Zhang Kai spanning from 2012 to 2024, showcasing the artist’s vision of a Tranquil Tale.
Zhang Kai’s aesthetic ideals can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty in China, the early Renaissance in the West, and medieval painting. These periods exude an air of innocence and simplicity. Zhang Kai recalls that the paintings of these periods awakened a sense of freshness and piety when he just learned how to paint. This is his most simple and pure feeling, which he always reminds himself not to forget. Chinese paintings show a deep understanding of lines and contours. By focusing on the contours and eliminating the superficial light, shadow, and structure, what is left are the lines and contours—subtraction makes us concentrate more on the essence of things. After that, paintings shifted from foregrounding to intentionally diluting and blurring contours, yet our brain’s mechanism would make the blurred part even more visible. Through Tranquil Tales, Zhang Kai wants to return to the concern with contours, which is more of a choice of interest.
「安静故事」展览开幕，图片致谢保利香港艺术空间
Opening Reception of Tranquil Tales,
Courtesy of Poly Gallery Hong Kong
「安静故事」展览现场，图片致谢保利香港艺术空间
Installation views of Tranquil Tales,
Courtesy of Poly Gallery Hong Kong
张凯，1985年生于中国山西，2007年毕业于山西师范大学美术学院，现生活工作于北京。
他的作品以赋有拟人化与精神性的猫与兔子为主角，呈现出安静、神秘、诗意的画面氛围。以当代视角对艺术史的梳理分析与个人审美倾向为出发点，通过对古典与当代的融合与重建展现了艺术家对时间、精神、表象与本质的思考。
Zhang Kai was born in 1985 in Shanxi, China. In 2007, he graduated from the School of Arts, Shanxi Normal University, and currently works and lives in Beijing.
