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Hu Zhiying
Remake Bacon ---Female Wrestling(1) 2005, oil, acrylic,
Chinese varnish on canvas,cm 192×153

Hu Zhiying
Remake Bacon ---Female Wrestling(2) 2005, oil, acrylic,
Chinese varnish on canvas,cm 192×153

Hu Zhiying
Remake Bacon ---Female Wrestling(3) 2005, oil, acrylic,
Chinese varnish on canvas,cm 192×153

After making a penetrating study of traditional Chinese culture and the history of Western painting, imitating artists of the abstract expressionist school and experimenting with and producing ready-mades, I have taken up painting again. In the last 15 years I have been exploring a question I call “cultural contrast”, a broad field that I aim to explore further. In notes on my works, I write: “In my work I combine the constant cultural value of the symbols in Chinese painting and the unfolding eclecticism of painting taking place in the West.” I combine Chinese traditional landscape painting with the elements of vary art styles in the West. I like to regard my works as equivalent to the real world and not merely a documentation of it. My paintings frequently synthesis imagines of many kinds of objects, where those in the background often change places with those in the foreground.

My works illustrate “cultural contrast” as an abstract and concrete field of knowledge. When the viewer tries to discern the origin of this field and identify the relationship between the themes of art and their prototypes, they are likely to lose themselves in the dreamlike realm of the paintings. In my easel paintings on canvas or board, apart from conventional materials like ink, oil and acrylic colors, I apply gold and silver power, Chinese Varnish. These materials, expressing an archaic mood in a multitude of imagines, add substance to the “cultural contrast”. The various materials, the diversity of images and the glossy surface are easily identifiable with the bright yet unstable reality of the world in which we live, and at the same time, imply a dark, mysterious world lurking beneath the dazzling surface.

The series works "Remake Bacon" is, recently, based on above, and uses for reference the certain elements of Bacon’s art to be the more prominent power of the intense images, more directly enter the person's soul dialog or the monologue. To use oil, alternately, acrylic with the unique material——Chinese Vanish in different level alternate, lets the work have a superior visual effect, but this quotes the Bacon’s art elements, and converges with others art elements in the dim atmosphere which the elements become vary outward appearance and substantive content. The vehement contrast between the intense brushwork and the strong color display those non-conventional changeful and extraordinary images and the soul kingdom, the pictorial technologic language and the profound artistic conception in harmony.

By Hu Zhiying

Hu Zhiying
Remake Bacon --- Baboon and Nun 2005, oil, acrylic, Chinese
varnish on canvas,cm 196×153

Hu Zhiying
Remake Bacon --- Bat and Rose(1) 2004—2005, oil, acrylic,
Chinesevarnish on canvas,cm 196X153

Hu Zhiying
Remake Bacon --- Bat and Rose(2) 2004-2005, oil, acrylic,
Chinese,varnish on canvas,196×153

Hu Zhiying
Bacon's Dream and Sex(1) 2007, oil, acrylic,
Chinese varnish on canvas, Triptych, each panel cm 192×153

Hu Zhiying
Bacon's Dream and Sex(2) 2007, oil, acrylic, Chinese varnish on canvas,
Triptych, each panel cm 192×153

Hu Zhiying
Bacon's Dream and Sex(3) 2007, oil, acrylic, Chinese varnish on canvas,
Triptych, each panel cm 192×153