Zhang Enli

The Box

10 January - 1 March 2014

London

Zhang Enli is a champion of forgotten spaces and objects. His practice is grounded in melancholic portrayals of objects or places from everyday life, through painting, sculpture or installation such as 'Space Paintings', in which he paints directly onto the walls, ceilings and floors of a room. For 'The Box', Zhang's second exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in London, the artist will present his first-ever sculptural installation alongside a new series of paintings.

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About the Artist

Zhang Enli

Using the outside world as a mirror, Zhang Enli documents the more prosaic aspects of contemporary life. He regularly works with everyday objects that he is instinctively drawn to, for example a piece of string, a hose, or even a marble ball from the floor of his studio. Zhang Enli...

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