五月NUOVO展览预告|张娜个展「恍兮光华」6月21日开幕

恍兮光华

NUOVO Gallery will present artist Zhang Na's solo exhibition "Glowing In Trance" on June 21, 2026. This exhibition is artist Zhang Na's first solo exhibition at NUOVO Gallery, featuring over 10 works created by the artist in recent years.

Zhang Na's works are a visual writing of "vitality." Through abstract forms, she embodies the height of spirituality (the axis of energy); through soft colors and curves, she carries the warmth and inclusiveness of femininity (the body and gestation); ultimately, this condenses into a pure, rhythmic visual experience full of inner energy.

We can approach Zhang Na's works from three perspectives: abstraction, femininity, and spirituality.

Zhang Na's creative practice belongs to "lyrical abstraction" or "color abstraction." It completely strips away concrete objects, relying neither on stories, scenes, nor figures for narration, but purely on the emotional tension of colors and the trajectory of brushstrokes to construct visual order. She continues and develops the traditions of geometric abstraction and lyrical abstraction. However, it is rare to see cold straight lines or sharp angles in her paintings. Her abstraction is "organic, fluid, and warm." She uses the rhythm of brush pressure and the layering and penetration of colors to simulate the physical rhythms of wind, water, and light, as well as the beating of a heart and the rhythm of breathing—this is an "abstraction of life."

The color texture of her paintings is particularly distinctive: the interweaving of pale pink, flesh-white, bright yellow, and red carries a strong "sense of the flesh." These soft tones and outward-growing curves easily evoke the gentle yet powerful body of a woman. The red column at the center of the composition, flanked by pink and green arcs, carries metaphors of the womb, petals, or the passage of life. It rejects the traditional objectification of women as "objects to be gazed upon" in art, instead transforming the vitality, fertility, and natural power of women themselves into abstract rhythms. The layers of curved lines resemble both the curves of a woman's body and the pulsation of life during gestation, revealing a power of inclusiveness, acceptance, and endless vitality.

In spiritual exploration, this strong sense of centrality often symbolizes the "spine" and the "central channel" (Sushumna)—as if energy (Kundalini) rises from the base; it also evokes the "axis mundi" or the "Tree of Life." The symmetrical halos expanding outward on both sides seem like the oscillation and resonance of energy within the body or the universe. The strong contrast between yellow-green and deep blue creates a sacred, dreamlike spiritual field, possessing a sense of meditative inward contemplation. It does not depict external reality but rather projects an inner spiritual landscape.

张娜 

1979年生于北京

独立创作者，领域涉及绘画，摄影，纪录片。

教育

2018纽约绘画学校New York Studio School

2021中央美院非具象绘画高研班

展览

2018 《北京此刻》摄影个展， 北京法国GeorgeV艺术中心

2021  独立纪录片《加尔各答日记》，入选当年KIFF加尔各答国际电影节展映单元

2026 《恍兮光华》张娜个展，北京五月空间

朱赫

策展人

本科毕业于武汉大学汉语言文学专业，硕士就读于罗马美术学院艺术管理专业，曾任《Hi艺术》主笔，ARTYOO艺术总监，现居北京

策展工作注重跨文化领域的交流与对话，群展包括《柔软的共生》《各自的阿卡迪亚》《黑桥一代》等，也为多位重要艺术家策划个人展览，包括周迈由、多多、冯峰、吕德安、Rose Hartman、徐静、施展、王昶、尹茂健、卜云军、吕延翔等。同时为多家艺术及大众媒体撰写评论及专栏文章

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