张智洲

1985年生于吉林

2010年毕业于中央美术学院版画系六工

现居北京

展览与获奖　　　　　　　

2012  “我们毕业了”联展 798“韵画廊”.

2010  “首届八大美院版画系优秀毕业生联展” 今日美术馆

2010   作品《左·右》系列,“中央美术学院毕业展”获三等奖

2009   作品《城市》在“中央美术学院校教学评估成果展”获二等奖

2007   中央美术学院基础部风景作品展览中，风景写生作品三幅留校

创作缘起

在2007年大学的一次课程上，我绘制了一幅单手游戏手柄的设计图。由于我初中时左手因病截肢，作品的初衷是想设计一支单手游戏手柄，这样我就可以玩常人需要双手来操作的游戏。这个作品让我开始思考我自己“左手”的这种缺失到底影响了自己什么?我缺失的究竟是什么?并且我想把自己“左手”的这种“不存在”用更多不同形式的作品转换为一种“存在”方式。

2010年，我的毕业作品《左·右》系列，是用自己的断臂和右手分别画同样的一幅画面，并呈现出一组组对比的作品。这个系列作品是我研究自身的一个开始，在创作的过程和呈现结果中，好多词汇和概念让自己陷入矛盾之中，比如什么是“完整”?什么是“美”？一幅“好画”的标准是什么?“左”与“右”应该努力画的一样？不一样？……所以我感觉我不是在画画，而是像在做实验，在不断的否定和肯定、破坏和构建里找到“完整”真实的自我。

毕业后我开始创作主题为《礼物》系列的作品，都是我用自己的“小胳膊”（断臂）去创作的。我觉得，每一张作品就好像是丢失的左手送给我的礼物一样。我用它在寻找属于我自己的真实、自然和不做作的艺术语言和工作方式。

Zhizhou Zhang

Born in Jilin Province, 1985

Graduated from the No.6 Studio Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2010

Living in Beijing now

Exhibitions and Awards

2012   works exhibited in the Yun Gallery of 798 Art Museum during the group exhibition of Our Graduation

2010   works exhibited in the Today Art Museum during the First Group Exhibition of the Excellent Graduation Works from Eight Academy of Fine Arts in China

2010   the series works THE LEFT vs. THE RIGHT got third award in the Exhibition of Graduation Works of Central Academy of Fine Arts

2009  the work CITY got second award in the Exhibition of Teaching Evaluation of Central Academy of Fine Arts

2007   three landscape sketches stored by school in the Exhibition of Landscape Sketches from Department of Basic in  Central Academy of Fine Arts

Background of creation

I made a design drawing of a one-handed gamepad on one of my college courses in 2007. For my personal reason that I had my left hand amputated because of disease, the original intention of this piece of work was to design a one-handed gamepad so that I can play the two-handed games as normal people. This piece of work made me start to rethink what influence my lost left hand had on me and what I had really lost. I decided to give a new presence of the absence of my left hand in more different art forms.

In 2010, a series of my graduation works named THE LEFT vs. THE RIGHT are the comparisons between of works drawn by my left arm and right hand. This series of works began the journey of the study of myself. During the art creation and the presence of the works, many words and concepts trapped me in the contradiction, such as “what is the definition of completeness?”, “what is beauty?”, “what is the standard of a decent painting” and “whether the works finished by my left arm and right hand should be identical or not”. Thus, I realized that I was doing an experiment instead of drawing and I was trying to looking for the true self in the constant process of denying, affirming, destroying and constructing.

After graduation, I started a series works named PRESENTS, which were inspired by my left arm (the one without hand).In this series of works, I felt that every piece of work was a present given by my lost left hand and with this invisible hand I was looking for the unique art language and working method that belonged to the true and natural self without disguise.