Zhang Haiying
Zhang Haiying belongs to the young generation of Chinese artists who do not shy away from looking at social fringe groups. The motifs for his large-format paintings in the "Anti-Vice Campaign" series are based on photos of police raids in brothels disguised as karaoke bars. The pictures taken during these raids are always similar, the young women working there hide their faces from the camera, and the shots are often out of focus and blurred. Haiying captures the impressions of these photographs on canvas with a spontaneous painting gesture; his style is a mixture of Western realistic oil painting and Asian gestural ink painting.
Zhang Haiying is regularly represented at numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the ARTOUR-O in Florence and the Contemporary Art Exposition in Beijing. The artist lives and works in the artist's village Songzhuang near Beijing, China.
