Following a soft opening organized last August with Artist Ji Zhou, UCCALAN(D) art space is pleased to inaugurate Zhang Chun Yang: The look of you from September 27 to October 24, 2008.

UCCALAN(D) is a joint project between two complementary “institutions” of Beijing cultural life, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) and LAN Club.

“UCCALAN(D) art space is another fantastic opportunity for UCCA to showcase young experimental artists to an in town audience”. Said UCCA Director Jerome Sans.

“This is the beginning of a promising partnership between top of the range curator practice and top of the range night club”, adds Danny Wang, Lan Club Conceptor and Director.

UCCALAN(D) art space will embark its audience into a series of presentations that will run several times throughout the year.

Zhang Chunyang demonstrates a remarkable intuition and tenacity in her observation and description of people’s souls. Her works, in the style of a diary, depicts human nature seen through various influences of time such as the “age of desires”, or others life long passion such as fashion, pleasure-seeking, or again state of being such as naivety and nihility. Adding up the feeling of various states of the body to her portraits: idle, tired or bewitched, the artist reveals the deep nature of soul seen at each period of life.

In our age, we must accept with fortitude the reality in its entirety, and choose to embark upon our own path in life, i.e. the path to decline. Featuring her vision of flower and their vulnerability through her portraits Zhang Chun Yang is able to transform the cruelty of aging trough the use of art.