{"id":10727,"date":"2014-06-19T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2023-04-20T07:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T07:17:15","slug":"dark-and-smelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/dark-and-smelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark and Smelly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian-online.com\/np_event\/zhao-zhao-uncertainty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>\u201cZhao Zhao: Uncertainty\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian-online.com\/np_space\/chambers-fine-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Chambers Fine Art&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>(No.1-D Caochangdi, Airport Access Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing),&nbsp;<strong>May 24\u2013July 6, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewed from a distance, the paintings Chambers Fine Art\u2019s spacious right hall resemble a fanatical religious nighttime gathering. Closer inspection reveals the petals of a sliced preserved duck egg upon ink-dark, coarsely applied canvases. They are rendered like endearing, sweet nighttime whispers. The oil paintings are presented in a clockwise ordering, beginning with an egg in a nest and showing its transformation into a preserved egg, which then begins to rot and retreat into the increasingly deep darkness. The works are titled variously as preserved egg, rotten egg, rotten preserved egg and so forth, in a repetition that seems to circle just as the paintings themselves do. Here appears to be a worthwhile narrative: the artist creates a series of simple paintings, rousing the viewer\u2019s emotion as he deploys a familiar culinary tradition with a centuries-old history, as though narrating the story of the egg as mummified and then freed from purgatory. The egg that Zhao Zhao paints does not symbolize regeneration, but rather relays a sort of spoken \u201cobscenity\u201d betraying a harsh humor which, once the viewer understands, precisely hits upon more ironic, internal aspects of the artist. The Chinese title of Zhao Zhao\u2019s exhibition could be prescribed a number of meanings, yet they would all portend acertain \u201cdisquiet\u201d for viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The left hall of the Chambers Fine Art displays several Ming and Qing-era stupas, or edifices which in the past cased the relics of Buddhist disciples. Also known as reliquary stupas or votive stupas, they served as places of meditation for Buddhists. The small stone stupas are now creatively bound up and supported by other materials, almost resembling the trunk of a precious transplanted sapling. Steel bases provide support, horizontal wooden beams act as scaffolding, and all is held together by vertical rope and string resembling a bandage. A closer look reveals internal supports of wooden wedges placed at the joints between the stones. These objects\u2014having rested upon the earth, imbibed the rain, sheltered under pine boughs, and gazed at the stars\u2014have been moved into a closed gallery space; in these times they are disconnected, and as the outside world changes the stupas become sleepy piles of stone. Their origins unknown and their age counted in centuries, some of these stone stupas must have been partially dismantled and sold in pieces as miserable artifacts, even as a gallery from New York attempts to organize and reset them. This process hints at the devastation wrought upon the bastion of traditional Chinese philosophy for a few decades in the twentieth century\u2014the which now, having realized and appreciated how the West and Japan preserved threads of traditional humanism, is undergoing a repair (with complex motives) from the outside in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In civilizations with a tradition of building stupas, building a stupa brings good fortune in one\u2019s reincarnation, while destroying one is considered as an extremely negative karmic act, with the soul rushing headlong towards an unfortunate future life. For these stupas \u201cmade\u201d to be reincarnated into a white cube, what is crucial lies no longer in whether one opts to meditate in their midst; rather, the key is how one can see what the stupas symbolize\u2014and how that is without its own ability to prop itself up, how without external support that will inevitably fall. Though the exhibition\u2019s English title evokes a sense of \u201cuncertainy\u201d, Zhao Zhao himself is certain\u2014knowing full well how to convey from a subtle opening that of which he is certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian-online.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/115.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randian-online.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/115.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43845\" title=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cUncertainty\u201d\uff0cinstallation view<br>\u300a\u4e0d\u5b89\u300b\uff0c\u5c55\u89c8\u73b0\u573a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"509\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-61.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/CtttMGnt-image-61-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-61-99x150.png 99w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-61.png 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cUncertainty\u201d\uff0cinstallation view<br>\u300a\u4e0d\u5b89\u300b\uff0c\u5c55\u89c8\u73b0\u573a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-62.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-62-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-62-150x117.png 150w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-62-385x300.png 385w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-62.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zhao Zhao, \u201cPreserved Duck Eggs 2\u201d, oil on canvas, 10 1\/2 x 13 3\/4 in, 2014<br>\u8d75\u8d75\uff0c\u300a\u54b8\u9e2d\u86cb2\u300b\uff0c\u5e03\u9762\u6cb9\u753b\uff0c27 x 35 cm\uff0c2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-63.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-63-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-63-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-63-419x300.png 419w, https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-63.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zhao Zhao, \u201cSpoiled Bird Egg\u201d, oil on canvas, 10 1\/2 x 13 3\/4 in, 2013<br>\u8d75\u8d75\uff0c\u300a\u574f\u86cb-\u9e1f\u86cb\u300b\uff0c\u5e03\u9762\u6cb9\u753b\uff0c27 x 35 cm\uff0c2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cZhao Zhao: Uncertainty\u201d Chambers Fine A &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/dark-and-smelly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[6641,6642,3027,6640,6643,3041],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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