55

Dates: 2018.06.30 - 07.29

Yin Changzhi’s first solo show at Gallery 55 in Shanghai “Wedge” was opened on the 30th of June, 2018. Fifteen pieces of mixed media works on canvas of various sizes created between 2015 and 2018 were on display till the 29th of July.

Yin Changzhi creates around the painting frame, plane and space structure, breaking through the history of painting practice. He creates artworks between painting, sculpture and installation. He tries to make up the new form and functional complement of the original painting plane system by using cloth and free combination of frame to manufacture and decompose into several bevels. The boarder of a painting would be pulled in different warp / weft relations, widen or folded, producing more joints, tendons and skin. The process of building is a customization of the action as well as viewing. In this sense, the artist attempts to loosen the rigid relationship between the art work and the audience with a temporary action by reediting the conventional properties of painting. Eventually, the translucent color layer and frame attaching to the canvas become the inside and the reflection. They are continually corrected in the process of reviewing. Once the border is open again, its material components construct a new base and structure after reassembling. The flexible wedges finally render an unfamiliar spatial hierarchy of painting and texture perception.

Yin Changzhi was born in China in 1984. Currently, he lives and works in Wuhu, China.