In Palazzo Merulana de Echos of that time according to Zhang Xiaotao – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – Strawberries that merge with landscapes, subject and object of a time that drains the signs of their flowing fruit that is intended to die popped through through fungus. Insect colonies, post -industrial metropolises, saints worn over time, ants used as a metaphors to tell the virtuous community at work. And again a sheet, “Sudario del Risecatto”, with subjects of the figurative painting formulated with colors of blood and death.
Just like painted Simulacra who question us about their meaning, 18 works of Chinese master Zhang Xiaotao open the doors of Palazzo Merulana for the Master from the East until 28 September.
Compiled by Andrea Romoli Barberini, sees the exhibition “Echi del Tempo” painting and digital animation techniques, facts, situations and places of the experience of the artist – one of the most refined interpreters of contemporary Chinese art, already known in Italy in Italy in the 55 in a constant dialogue where, where a constant dialogue, where a dialogue, and where, a constant dialog, Trauma, memories and fear with symbols, places and spirituality are intertwined.

“Echoes of Time”, Personal Set -Up by Maestro Zhang Xiaotao

Zhang Xiaotao tells contemporary society, given the “most cruel laboratory for an artist, a fundamental and speechless book, The Real University”. In all this, art is the result of the struggle between intuition, reflection and reality.
The headquarters of the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, managed and enhanced by CoopCulture, Palazzo Merulana, AS Underlined by the Director Paola Centanni, “Opens With Growing Attention to Multicultural Componnison. This inburs Hans Inburs Inburs Inburs Inburs Hosts hasts hasts hasts inburs’s inburs hatred hasts inburs. International Projects, Dialoguing with Different Artistic Languages by Geographical Origin, Aesthetic Sensitivity and Social context is an integral part of our cultures.

The present tell with images that know how they can be sweet and fierce, seductive and at the same time disturbing, Zhang Xiaotao archeology, Tibetan studies and sociology, influenced by Buddhist philosophy and the relationship with the religious beliefs of contemporary China.
On the fourth floor of Palazzo Merulana, the viewer is therefore immersed in an intense and stratified aesthetics, made of disturbing images, similar to dreams, in which natural elements, animals, body fluids, symbolic objects and autobiographical reference that make the exhibition of this master “.

Zhang Xiaotao, the arrival of the storm 5, oil on linen, 300 x 200 cm, 2008-2025

“The exhibition – underlines the curator Andrea Romoli Barberini – is important for three concepts: space, time, society. The artist is a careful observer of society who assesses and reads his personal experiences. The paintings nowadays represent sculptures are no longer in their subjects in their subjects in the time of detail.”
The community is seen as neurosis instead. The unique, conceived as his own characteristic of a unique and compact set, is given by the complexity and articulation of a single speech for images, fixed and moving, preceded as visual elements, different and separate, therefore potentially autonomous, but absolutely related in terms of significance.