“Expired Child” Zhang Chengzheng on June 1st – Rescuing the Childlike Heart in Paintings

At the age of soaking wolfberries in a thermos,saw in the painting the barefoot me leaping towards the sun.
Zhang Chengzheng’s “Naughty Boy Series” has touched the childhood of so many adults.

The dynamic boy in the painting is a mirror of his childhood in the Inner Mongolia mining area, where he grew up wild with mountains as friends and the sky as company. This “wild growth” has made freedom the creative source engraved in his DNA. He uses the conflict of materials to preserve the most genuine feelings.
Following this genuineness, geometry and lines, which are rules and constraints, become the springboard for the boy’s breakthrough. The collision of colors and materials, the interweaving of iron filings, coal dust, and oil paints, are like a dialogue between childhood and adulthood.
With the ingenious idea of “painting within a painting”, he hides profound meanings beneath the vivid dynamics. Between the lines is the struggle to break free, and within the color blocks is the balance between dreams and reality.

Children’s Day is not just for children. May we all be like the boy in his paintings, guarding the genuineness in our hearts. May the naughty child in your heart always have a place to leap and the stars in your eyes always have the right to twinkle.
Happy Children’s Day, our friends!

Today’s tea has run out. Next time, I’ll make some new ones and accompany you to enjoy art.