Zhang guides viewers through his labyrinth of skeletal forms and suggestive imageries, bringing to life again the experience of a traveller in pursuit of spiritual journeys. As gallerist and art critic Johnson Chang wrote, Zhang “writes his temporal journeys as calligraphic experiences, and revives the spirit of Chinese words as radical emergences out of a blank sheet. These are moments when the flux of the world stops for the artist, and senses himself afresh”. The calligraphy-like structures in Zhang’s work are distilled from his physical and spiritual journeys, representing the physical forms of his imaginative interpretations of special experiences.
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