In association with China Art Projects based in Beijing, Zhang Hongkuan is showing Power nests, a graphic series of photographs capturing fragments from the tangles of cables integral to the many power networks traversing the urban environment in China and in cities world-wide.

Zhang Hongkuan is working within the genre of landscape, but pushes its boundaries by isolating and focusing on a commonplace and often deemed ugly element of the urban streetscape. In his images these unsightly outgrowths and carbuncles of cabling are transformed into cryptic, poetic abstractions; with Power nest #8 and #9 in particular recalling the paintings of Australian abstractionist Stanislaus Rapotec.

Zhang Hongkuan was born in Tianjin, China in 1967 and graduated in 1991 from Tongji University, Shanghai with a degree in medicine and specialized in orthopaedic medicine until the late 1990s. Zhang has lived in Italy, Bulgaria and France since leaving China in 1998. He studied oil painting and traditional fresco painting in Rome at La Scuola degli Arti Ornamentali from 2000-2002 and now lives and works in Paris as a full time artist and also practices traditional Chinese massage and acupuncture. He has exhibited in Europe, Asia and Australia and his work is held in collections in China, USA, France, UK, Poland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina and Bulgaria.

In association with China Art Projects based in Beijing, Zhang Hongkuan is showing Power nests, a graphic series of photographs capturing fragments from the tangles of cables integral to the many power networks traversing the urban environment in China and in cities world-wide.

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POWER NESTS