GROUP EXHIBITION

Echoing the coinciding Henry Moore solo exhibition, Enli added, ‘Compared to his most known sculptures, works in this presentation are more abstract and freehand style, they awaken our curiosity and provide us a new perspective to understanding the artist.’

Quotes from Exhibiting Artists on the Creative Process

Phyllida Barlow (b. 1944, United Kingdom)

’...I think there’s a lot [about the art world] that’s not entirely spoken about or recognized, which is the unseen and the unknown and the creative act as a deeply private experience. There is this great, powerful desire to just create something.’ (2021)

Fausto Melotti (1901–1986, Italy)

‘An artist’s work – poetry, painting, music – always has a ‘chance’ beginning. Then development makes a suggestion, and paves the way towards a law within which it rests and is fully defined.’ (1971)

Bharti Kher (b. 1969, United Kingdom)

‘You don’t realise that pages can mark you. It’s not just you that marks paper with line, touch, stroke, or scratch. Drawing can be self-conscious—except when you don’t fear the page. You don’t want the paper to lie, or to misconstrue you. If you appear at the time to be hesitant, then the paper knows and the better option is to free that page and erase the moment of the memory by re-marking it. Somehow, this knowing also stains the hand, and that marks a space too between a good drawing and a bad one. It’s like the pencil has been told what to do; the hand knows and the paper listens.’ (2013)

Paul McCarthy (b. 1945, United States)

‘If I draw in character, I will make different decisions than I would as Paul. And doing drawings with someone else completely alters the situation and the result. The other character is free to disrupt it, to talk, or whatever. They are also in character. (...) I am not interested in realism in relationship to the characters. They were hybrid hyper-realities.’ (2020)

Exhibiting Artist List

Phyllida Barlow

Louise Bourgeois

Alexander Calder

John Chamberlain

Arshile Gorky

Jenny Holzer

Bharti Kher

Lee Lozano

Anna Maria Maiolino

Piero Manzoni

Takesada Matsutani

Fabio Mauri

Paul McCarthy

Fausto Melotti

Henry Moore

Pablo Picasso

David Smith

Zeng Fanzhi

Zhang Enli