¡@¡@As an artist, Zhong Biao adheres to "visualization" to accomplish his "archeological work." Instead of juxtaposing concepts, he expresses himself through paradoxical scenes. While his early works usually juxtapose cultural images of different times, his later works are characterized by more transformation. He sets color dimension against time direction. Those aged images are infused with colors by the artist, yet the images close to our daily life are deprived of any color and scenery. Lively men lose color, yet the color in dresses and accessories they wear, symbols of the era, remain. As the colors fade away, the limit between reality and memory diminishes and illusion begins. This illusion, rather than being founded on pure biological sensation, as in the case of surrealism, is based on cultural accumulation and memory.

¡@¡@If the surrealist style is but a crisis of self-identity reflected in the rapid industrialization of earlier times, then Zhong Biao's works appear to have initiated a "new surrealist style." This style embodies an individual's doubt about his own knowledge.

   

¡@¡@Zhong Biao's unique work approach demonstrates that his cultural attitude is entirely different from that of previous artists. Be it political bop or gaudy art, what they were eager to put across was their own attitudes, criticizing either ideology or commercial culture. Zhong Biao seems to keep distance from this sort of criticism. In his works we find calmness unique to intellectuals. What he broods over is not how to criticize, but where our evidence for criticism comes from and how their meanings have undergone changes. Zhong Biao's contemplation over China's pop culture and mass culture, we find a new cultural attitude. It is unlike artists concerned with pop culture who either mix their works with real pop culture under the pretext of a particular concept or criticize mass production of pop culture as artists defend old handcraft. It is possible that art based on handwork and individual production is not a match to real mass culture and its media.

¡@¡@The relationship between art that criticizes mass culture, in the name of art and mass culture itself is more like that between a fly bat and a big fly. In Zhong Biao's works, we can see through the setting of illusions and the incompletion in the images that he gives up not only the antagonistic relations between art and mass culture, but also the attempt to control mass culture. Ultimately he finds, through "visualization," a space for art in a place where there is no influence of mass culture.

 
   
   
 
1968 Born in Chongqing.
1991 BFA. The Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Fine Arts Associate Professor, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
Associate Director, Chongqing Art Museum.
   
Solo Exhibitions -
1996 The Fable of life, Arts Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Academy ,Chongqing.
1997 The Fable of life, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong.
2001 A Chance Existence, Art Scene China Gallery, Hong Kong.
2004 Zhong Biao, Benamou Gallery, Paris, France.
Ubiquity, Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai.
   
Group Exhibitions -
1990 The Second Chinese Sport Art Exhibition. China Art Museum, Beijing.
1991 Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.
1993 The First Chinese Oil Painting Bi-Annual Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing.
1995 Taipei Art Fair ( TAF'95 ),Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei Taiwan.
History of Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting-From Realism to Post-Modernism, Galerie Theoremes, Brussels, Belgium.
Vision of China -Contemporary Paintings by Chinese Masters, Pacific City Club, Bangkok , Thailand.
1996 Eleven's-The Avant-garde, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong.
Art Miami'96, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, U.S.A.
1998 Asian Avant-garde, Christie's London, England.
1999 As Beautiful as Materialism-Chinese New Concept Art Exhibition, Shanghai.
The Northeast (Korea, China, Japan) and the Third World Art Exhibition,
Seoul Art Museum, Korea.
Joint Exhibition of Chinese-Vietnamese Oil Paintings, Asia Artist Gallery, Singapore.
2000 At The New Century,1979-1999 China Contemporary Art's Works, Chengdu.
Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu.
Chinese museum Chinese walls, Groningen, Holland.
2001 China Art Now! Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Painting, Elsalvador,Sao Paulo,Brazil.
.Chilis from Chongqing, Kulturbahnhof Kassel, Germany.
Next Generation-Art Contemporary of Asia,Passage de Petz,Paris,France.
Lust for Life, Galerie Piltzer, Paris,France.
2002 Art Miami'2002, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, U.S.A.
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A.
Let's go, Chinese Contemporary Artists with the Football World Cup, China Millennium Monument, Beijing.
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Painting, National Museum of Art, Peru.
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Painting, Mexico Post Palace, Mexico.
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Painting, Museum of Art Contemporary, Damascus, chile.
Foison-Contemporary Art Exhibition of China, China Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China.
2003 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago,U.S.A.
The Album of The First Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing
Third China National Exhibition of Oil Paintings, China Art Museum ,Beijing.
The First Beijing International Art Biennale. China 2003-Showpiece Contributed by the Teachers at the Ten China's Art Schools (Academic Award),Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing.
International Contemporary Drawing Art, Xi'an Guangzhou.
Department-Contemporary Art Exhibition, Mountain White Pagoda, Hangzhou.
Image of Image, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen.
2004 FIAC,Paris,France.
In Between----The Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition ,Tang Gallery, Bangkok Thailand.
Forbidden Senses----Sensuality in Contemporary Chinese Art, Presentee en Dordogene a l'Espace Culturel francois Mitterrand de Perigueux et a l'Ancien Eveche de Sarlat,France.
China Contemporary Art, Indonesia.
Asian Art Invitational Exhibition, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kunstbunker,Munich, Germany.
   
Awards  
2004 The Tenth National Exhibition of China Arts, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong.
The First Nominative of Fine Arts Literature (Literature Award),Art Museum of Hubei Fine Art Academy, Hubei.
 
   
   
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