YIN ZHAOHUI

1977 Born in Henan, China

2004 Graduate from China Central Academy of Fine Art

Currently work and live in Beijing

Looking at Yin Zhaohui’s more recent works, his art explorations have had noticeable changes. This change first appeared as lines that has a traditionally Chinese undertone. The delicate and long lines have always been Yin Zhaohui’s signature visual motif; speaking from the most fundamental, his lines in the past were altered “forms” of a “Western” quality, yet his latest expression of lines seem to be gradually liberated from “form” and marching toward a path down a flattened, decorative “bone method” (the structural using of the brush emphasizes lines) transformation that stresses on the lines’ own quality. Secondly, these expressively Chinese line are accompanied by a gradually flattened visual atmosphere in the image. At this phase, he was inspired by Japanese Ukiyo-e and China’s ancient murals – an aesthetics to compress depth, delicate formal transformation and complicated visual layers into a flattened and rich mural-like image that seems imbued with history. Compared with the previously bizarre and enchanting appeal veiled beneath quaint imagery, his new works emphasize on the rustic but brilliant colors unique to ancient murals.