Zhen Guo’s solo exhibition “Muted Landscape” will be open on March 29 at SHUN Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. The show is schedule from March 29th to May 7th 2025. This is an extension of her solo exhibition “Muted Landscape” at the Derfner Judaica Museum in New York City last year.
“Mute Landscape” is a series mainly in ink. The famous art critic Robert Morgan pointed out in a review article: These conjugal forms open up a logic of their own, a corporeal logic that descends through time, over time, within the interstices of the moment. The manner of their being is inexhaustible. Far from the deluge of a quaint repetition, they linger in time as they ascend to become physical formations. The strata of the Earth has been given a magnitude through ink that absorbs heat and light, that ordains the impossible as a rejuvenated sensibility through mock clouts of dirt that settle into place on their own, launching a gestural weight within the breadth of ink, granting us the opportune space – a space that regains its substance as a bodily process, as a longitudinal focus of enraptured skin clinging to our organs as its covering, skin that is folded, creased, and ironically caught in the act of memory over time, beyond time, sensing what history has become and what we still remember upon our first gaze at the infinite scope of the universe. Zhen Guo’s ink reveals what it conceals, the latter empowering the former. The trick of time is to be caught in the breadth of ink, where all time folds in upon itself and grants a leave to becoming no less than what we are: human beings in touch with one another.(1)
In these two solo exhibitions of Guo Zhen’s ink, they’re also a part that combined with colors.
The famous art historian Gale Levin pointed out in a review article: Disturbing this rich but subtle range of tones, Zhen Guo’s most recent series of ink paintings inject areas of dramatic rainbow stripes, a radical and unexpected innovation. In some of these works, the stripes are superimposed on the inked ground by collaged fragments. All these color inserts serve to dazzle, to alert the viewer, shock the eye out of any visual or social complacency.
With her choice to feature patches of rainbow stripes on her dark ink paintings, Zhen Guo sees these works as “representing LGBTQ people,” choosing the commonly used acronym to refer to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. The colorful stripes derive from the rainbow flag, also known as the gay pride flag, which symbolizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride and its social movements. Its colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community and the full range of human sexuality and gender. (2)
Zhen Guo is a Chinese American artist who has lived in New York for nearly 40 years. She constantly explores new artistic concepts and artistic creations in her uninterrupted artistic practice, combining the characteristics of social reality and her own emotional experience to deepen and improve step by step. Many wonderful works of art can be seen in her studio. In her own words, she is preparing for a large-scale solo exhibition, which will take a lifetime to complete.
(1). From book <Muted Landscape> page 06 Robert C. Morgan’s article “Zhen Guo: The Breadth of Ink” 2019
(2). From Derfner Judaica Museum catalog, Gail Leven article “Zhen Guo’s Muted Landscape”page 11. 2013
Address
Clinic Mall 3F, 2-2-4 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Sunday | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Artist
Zhen Guo
Exhibition Dates
March 29 – May 7, 2025
Website
https://www.shunartdesign.com
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/shunartgallery/
Contact
shunartgallery@gmail.com
(Text and images courtesy of SHUN Gallery)
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