Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce the opening of Zhou Siwei’s solo exhibition entitled Beautify Home, which is co-presented by Galerie Urs Meile and Antenna Space. The show will exhibit a series of paintings, sculptures and photographs.
The images in Zhou Siwei’s works are forms of “image beings”, or to be more precise, he spares no effort in eliciting the actuality of the images, while the “imaginative” aspect is circumvented as much as possible. It became gradually clear for him to choose only non-photographic, non-cinematic images, which are mostly ready-made, everyday shapes and graphics. For Zhou Siwei (*1981 in Chongqing, China), these images lack not only the power of visual representation, but also any semantic potential. They are nothing but “images”. Therefore, they are images that are genuinely compatible, which are able to cooperate with paintings in order to firmly grasp the “actuality” of painting. Zhou Siwei’s works demonstrate a stance on aesthetic research: he is not really concerned with what today’s “reality” is, but rather with the question, in which emotional state the “reality”, that has long been conditioned by aesthetics, is produced.

OPENING : 2017.03.11 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

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