Twilight of The Gods: Solo Exhibition by Zhang Linhai

Exhibition Overview:

Linda Gallery proudly presents Twilight of The Gods, a solo exhibition by Zhang Linhai. Zhang Linhai has always held an aesthetic voice that differed from his contemporaries in China. When consumer culture and cynical realism were in vogue, he depicted his memories in the mountains. Through earnest engagements with his childhood in the rural mountains during the 1960s, Zhang Linhai creates work that speaks to the collective importance of preserving truth. His search for truth and commitment to creating work from lived experiences led to his highly unique depictions of the human condition visible in his figures, which are rich with latent meaning and endless stories presented through subtitle gestures and imposing facial features.

He teeters on abstraction, distorting the optical realities of a scene while preserving their legibility to create almost whimsical depictions of mountain life. Zhang Linhai’s childhood during the 1960s in China tucked away in…