zhanhong liao, izmir biennale

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FC: NEDERLANDSE KUNSTENAAR IZMIR BIENNALE | ZHANHONG LIAO | DUTCH ARTIST SELECTED BY THE IZMIR BIENNALE PUBLICATION CONCEPT BY SIMON BORST

1: ZHANHONG LIAO

2: Zhanhong Liao was born and grew up in Guangzhou, China. Graduated in Art & Design at City College of Manchester, U.K. and is member of Puchri Studio, an artist association with 160 year history in Holland. She lives in The Netherlands and has exhibited and worked in Symposium and residency in many countries. Once started as a therapeutically process, Zhanhong developed herself with her ‘Imaging diaries’ into a very solid Artist with unique expression. She discovered the power of the ‘Imaging Diary’ to express her enrooted feelings and memories of China and her life in the west. In her diaries not the words, as in traditional diaries, but the images have the role of storyteller: | BIOGRAPHY

3: Images made out of paint, photo’s and drawings by Zhanhong herself, and on the other hand existing images selected from magazines, motives on paper, illustrations, and fabric that she collected; cut out and stuck on into her diaries. By choosing this way of working a rich layered form arises, not only in the material field; but also cultural and to its contents. The Imaging Diary appears to be an ideal transport means for the complexity of the underlying weight that Zhanghong puts into her works. The harmonic way, in which she proved to have combined both the traditional Chinese roots and the new western influence into her new life, is perfectly shown in her diaries. The books (her Diary) show a rich and very developed sensibility for color and composition and for a great craftsmanship in handling all sorts of materials.

4: DAIRY, MY WORLD YOUR WORLD OUR WORLD MIXED MEDIA

5: DAIRY "MEMORY" MIXED MEDIA

6: DAIRY "MEMORY" MIXED MEDIA

7: DAIRY "MEMORY" MIXED MEDIA