Zhang Jie - Artist's Statement

Elementary facts, such as shape, colour and medium, are powerful and explain so much. Figures which are true to life tell much more than a thousand words, although in fact they can’t say a word. Colours are voiced and always floating like music, continually emerging in front of your eyes and murmuring to your ears, far more than what you get at the first glance.

The subjects in my paintings are blue, sensitive, timid, narcissistic, skeptical and lonely, but full of desire. They resist the encroaching civilization outside, entirely enjoy and comfort themselves.

I’d like to leave some things for my viewers’ imagination. The figures in my paintings have external expressions, but there is also a mysterious undertone to them.