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Painting addresses time more radically than photography because it conveys relatively little sense of the temporal setting of its depiction. This has been all the more the case since the Abstract Expressionists’ gestural wings ramped up the dynamics of process’s trace in lieu of the illusion of depicted time. Ang Ziqi Zhang’s painting is heavily invested in such questions of painterly temporality, which have accompanied the medium as background noise since the invention of technical representations of reality. Traces of color rubbed into wood and subtle gestures dominate the surfaces and read as remnants of fading signs that have been blurred by the passage of time. Ziqi Zhang combines the use of temporal markers such as trace and gesture with various forms of the representation of time – numbers, clocks, graphs, spirals, wheels – which sometimes depict their subject in purely abstract, sometimes linear, sometimes circular ways. In turn, the painting synthesises...More
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Painting addresses time more radically than photography because it conveys relatively little sense of the temporal setting of its depiction. This has been all the more the case since the Abstract Expressionists’ gestural wings ramped up the dynamics of process’s trace in lieu of the illusion of depicted time. Ang Ziqi Zhang’s painting is heavily invested in such questions of painterly temporality, which have accompanied the medium as background noise since the invention of technical representations of reality. Traces of color rubbed into wood and subtle gestures dominate the surfaces and read as remnants of fading signs that have been blurred by the passage of time. Ziqi Zhang combines the use of temporal markers such as trace and gesture with various forms of the representation of time – numbers, clocks, graphs, spirals, wheels – which sometimes depict their subject in purely abstract, sometimes linear, sometimes circular ways. In turn, the painting synthesises...More
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