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maggio 19, 2021 - Gagosian Gallery

Artist Spotlight: Jia Aili

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. 

I often regard painting as the process of thinking and perceiving vision. Usually, with the recognition of information, the image I construct within the rectangular shape is continuously established and overturned.
—Jia Aili

Gagosian's second season of Artist Spotlight—a series that focuses on an individual artist for one week each month—presents a new painting by #jiaaili. The featured work will be revealed at gagosian.com on May 28, and will be available for sale for forty-eight hours only.

A central figure in Chinese #contemporaryart, Jia interlaces scenes from daily life, portraiture, fantastical apparitions, and abstract forms to reflect on social change and modernization. Heterogeneous narratives often intertwine and connect with one another in his grand-scale works to give birth to new meanings.

The featured painting balances multiple structural relationships within a single image; abstract shapes mix with figures in motion, evoking the urgency of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), the dynamism and speed of the Futurists, or the chaotic geometries of a Francis Bacon portrait. The compound landscape alludes to an apocalyptic world still bearing the light of hope.

A new video shot in Jia's Beijing studio will be published on the Gagosian Quarterly online on May 26, making its debut for English-speaking audiences as part of Artist Spotlight: #jiaailiGagosian Quarterly will also publish an interview between the artist and Philip Tinari, director at UCCA Center for #contemporaryart, Beijing.

Artist Spotlight is a dynamic platform that enables artists to present their work in the digital realm, sharing their stories with a global audience online. The series, which launched in April 2020 in response to the pandemic crisis, is now in its second season. It is presented once a month as a regular part of Gagosian's programming. Each installment highlights the work of an individual artist through new editorial features and archival content, and new work is made available with pricing information for forty-eight hours only.

For more information, please contact the gallery at collecting@gagosian.com.

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