HeMas Zhang
Exhibiting in both China and Australia, HeMas Zhang is an artist working multi-disciplinary areas including conceptual photography and painting.
Taking his conceptual vision from the land, HeMas Zhang also finds that even the smallest aspects of nature can be a valuable source of both materials and subject matter. The interest in the environment also manifests itself in a collection of found and altered objects presented as installed sculptures.
HeMas Zhang’s abstract works are often made using real crushed minerals and earth as well as obtaining pigments from those materials. These rough and textured surfaces are reaching back across decades, to an abstract tradition informed by the European Abstraction movements of the post-war period. Simultaneously, HeMas Zhang’s material practice of using actual earth in heavily textured surfaces continues a custom used by indigenous painters. Thus, the imagery is both about the land as well as being of the land. This abstraction expresses the impermanent, like the constant transformation of nature. Because the works are nonfigurative, using only textures and colours, there is an aesthetic of meditation where the audience is able to submerge in the intangible.
HeMas Zhang, Mountain and Sea Lament No.2, 2022, mixed media on canvas, 122 x 198cm.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Mountain and Sea Alchemy, Vermillion Art Gallery, Sydney
2020 Uncertain, Polaris Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Ink Action, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Wuzhen, China
2018 Ink Action, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Wuzhen, China
Zhang Huajie Ceramics Exhibition, Qujiang Futao Ceramics Museum, Xi’an, China
Northern Tropic – Oil Painting Exhibition, ICICLE Space, Shanghai, China
2015 Who Are You, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
2007 Face To Face - Photography Exhibition, Yahe Art Centre, Beijing, China