Feel of Air: the Concrete and the Abstract in Zhao Dajun’s Art

This exhibition presents a series of previously unknown drawings of the Hercules from various angles—side and back views—long thought lost and only recently rediscovered. They date from the same period as Zhao Dajun's well-known Hercules drawings (1978). Also on view for the first time is a 12-meter-long preparatory sketch he created in 1999–2000 for the large-scale historical panorama The Southwestern Shandong Campaign: The Storming of Yuncheng. By juxtaposing these little-known achievements within the social realist tradition with his final abstract......