Zhang Yunyao – Biennale de Lyon

Blaise Adilon

Venue

Gadagne Museums

Lyon

Born 1985 in Shanghai, China.
Lives and works in Paris, France.

Using non-traditional media such as felt, Zhang Yunyao explores the multiple possibilities of drawing and is helping to renew the potential of this material. During a slow and painstaking process, the artist strives to produce a tactile and sensual work using graphite, in multiple shades of grey. Tapping the iconographies of fetishism and film, he compares representations of parts of the body with those of BDSM sexual practices and of flowers. His small dark drawings, favouring close-up points of view and tight framing, articulate in a metallic scenography various forms of intimate desire, at once fragile and strong.

Also on view at the Guimet Museum and in The many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet at the macLYON.

Lists of artworks :
Apparition, 2022
Contour, 2022
A Path, 2022
Turning point, 2022
Disperison, 2022
Emoji, 2022
Fragility, 2022
Two figures, 2022
R IV, 2022
Freedom, 2022
Two figures II, 2022
Still Life, 2022