Zhang Yunyao – Me, 2022 Seal II, 2022

Blaise Adilon
Blaise Adilon

Venue

Guimet Museum

Lyon

Born 1985 in Shanghai, China.
Lives and works in Paris, France.

Using non-traditional media such as felt, Zhang Yunyao explores the multiple possibilities of drawing and is helping to renew the potential of this material. During a slow and painstaking process, the artist strives to produce a tactile and sensual work using graphite, in multiple shades of grey. Tapping the iconographies of fetishism and film, he compares representations of parts of the body with those of BDSM sexual practices and of strange monsters. His dark drawings, favouring close-up points of view and tight framing, articulate various forms of intimate desire, at once fragile and strong.

Also on view at the Gadagne Museum and in The Many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet at the macLYON.

Artworks :

Me, 2022
Seal, 2022
Seal II, 2022
Connector I, 2022
A pair of Sag II, 2022
Connector II, 2022
Connector III, 2022
One Seam & Two Points, 2022
OO, 2022
OOO, 2022
Touch, 2022
Sag, 2022
Pattern, 2022
A Protrusion II, 2022
Terrified, 2022
Sag II, 2022
A Protrusion III, 2022
A Seam, 2022
A Protrusion, 2022
Protrusions, 2022
Graphite pencil on felt stretched on panels