Dali Drawings

Zhang Dali was born in 1963 and born in Harbin, China. Zhang Dali has painted 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the signature of the artist and title of the book "Chinese descent" tattooed on each of their bodies. They are often hung upside down, indicating the uncertainty of their life and their powerlessness to change their own destiny.

Profiles scribbled a human head are the work of 18K (aka AK47) - The artist formerly known as Zhang Dali. You do not notice them in a western town simply because the drawings would be quickly sprayed graffiti on by thousands of other lay abouts, the Vandals, artists and political groups.18K was born in Heilongjiang ago 36 years and came to Beijing after East school to attend the prestigious Central Academy of Art and Design. He studied painting in the traditional ink brush Chinese but soon began to produce abstract works and experimenting with different materials. In the late 1980s, 18K was the first artist to move into the village at Yuanmingyuan, which later became a flourishing colony of artists and bohemians until its closure by the authorities in Beijing in the early 1990s . In 1988, 18 carats was one of several artists recommended bumming independent filmmaker Wu Wenguang Beijing (Liulang Beijin)

In fact, many tags are intentionally 18K placed next to "chai" characters. Not only is graffiti painted on walls that will soon be rubble unlikely to provoke police into action, 18K also artistic reasons for associating with his head ordered structures: the work is an attempt to initiate a dialogue with Beijing, a city where buildings come down faster than they did in wartime Berlin and London. Like many young people involved in the arts, 18K left Beijing in 1989. He went to Italy where he spent six years living in different cities and work as an artist. Upon his return to Beijing in 1993, he designed his project running long graffiti he called dialogue, because the intention is that the graffiti with photographs and articles that document and criticize it together form dialogue on the changing face of Beijing

Selected Exhibitions-

2006
aec A second story, held by Wu Hung, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2005
aec Sublimation organized by Wu Hung, Beijing municipality, China
2004
aec Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London
2003
aec Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy
2002
aec Basic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

Conclusions

Zhang Dali has painted 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the signature of the artist and title of the book "Chinese descent" tattooed on each of their bodies.

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