阿那亚艺术中心北岸馆荣幸呈现中国艺术家郑皓中的同名个展，展出其围绕友人肖像、自画像和画室三个主题的绘画作品。
郑皓中的作品始终聚焦于与自身生活相关的人物与环境，而这些日常视野内的景观几乎都来源于他的画室空间。尽管近年来艺术家工作室聚落逐渐迁移、分散甚至消失，他的画室里却常有包括艺术家、音乐人、写作者在内的好友到访。这些朋友是他的模特，而同时他也是对方创作中的演员、摄像师或乐手。在以熟悉的朋友为绘画对象时，信任与默契让他能够忽略人物身份，专注于场景和（反）叙事构建，从而自由地在画布上打开映照自我的开放式心理图景。
在观看郑皓中的绘画时，我们总会被其中大胆的空白与自由的线条所吸引，这与艺术家所强调的“即兴”概念密切相关。空白象征了“时间的起点”，在去时间化的真空背景之上，潇洒自如的线条更纯粹地勾勒出他作画时的内心轨迹。通过描绘身边的人与景观，他将如爵士乐般自由多变的能量和情感注入画面，借由不同的对象探索同一自我的多样表达。对艺术家而言，绘画最终还是关乎如何回到自身，如何“自画”。
此次展览由阿那亚艺术中心馆长张震中策划，与展览统筹吴伊扬、策展助理王嘉铭共同组织。展览于2024年9月22日起对公众开放，并持续至2025年2月9日。

Aranya Art Center North is pleased to present the eponymous solo exhibition of Chinese artist Zheng Haozhong, featuring the artist’s portraits of friends, self-portraits, and studio-themed paintings.
Zheng Haozhong’s works have always focused on people and settings connected to his life, these scenes are almost exclusively drawn from his everyday field of vision, particularly from his studio space.Though artists’ homes and studios have constantly shifted, dispersed, and even disappeared in recent years, Zheng’s painting studio is still frequented by his friends, many of whom are artists, musicians, and writers. These friends are his models, while the artist in turn serves as performer, photographer, or musician in their creations. When the subjects of the painting are close friends, trust and understanding allow the artist to overlook the identity of these people and focus on the construction of the setting and the (anti)narrative, allowing him to freely unfurl a wide open psychic spectacle of the self on the canvas.
When viewing Zheng Haozhong’s paintings, we are often drawn in by his bold use of negative space and the freedom of his lines, aspects that are intimately linked to his emphasis on improvisation. The negative space symbolizes the “beginning of time.” Against the backdrop of this detemporalized vacuum, the free-flowing lines carve out the trajectory of his mind during the act of painting. By depicting the people and scenes around him, he infuses the picture with a dynamic energy and emotion akin to jazz, using different subjects to explore diverse expressions of the same self. For the artist, painting is about how to return to the self, how to paint the self.
This exhibition is organized by Damien Zhang, Director of the Aranya Art Center, together with Exhibition Coordinator Wu Yiyang and Curatorial Assistant Wang Jiaming. The exhibition is on view from September 22, 2024 through February 9, 2025.