Yi Zhou - Contemporary Chinese Artist
i Zhou is a young Chinese artist, who has lived in Rome from the age of ten and studied between London and Paris with a degree in Political Science and Economics.
Living between Paris and Shanghai, she creates large multimedia installation artworks that blend film, digital animation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and contemporary music composition. Her works explore the realm of hyper-realism and neo-realism: on one hand, she derives visual and tangible forms from the imagination and dreams, while on the other hand, she gives a surreal aspect to nature itself.
Her work is a complex synthesis of imagination, literature, mythology, philosophy and new technology and is impregnated with Chinese and Mediterranean culture. Her works introduce the disturbing magic of both virtual and supernatural characters and landscapes as well as the ephemeral reality of life, love, and death while using the symbolic language of the unconscious.
Blending ancient expressive methods, such as sculpture in marble and 35mm film, with extremely technologically advanced ones, such as 3D animation, Yi Zhou presents a vision of life, transcending both time and space, inflected with irony and wit.
周依是一位年轻的中国艺术家。 她十岁定居罗马, 后在伦敦和巴黎求学并获得政治学和经济学学位。
周依将电影, 数码动画, 摄影, 雕塑, 绘画, 素描和现代音乐融为一体创作大型多媒体装置艺术作品。她的作品是对超现实主义和新现实主义的探索： 从想象和梦境中获取视觉和实体的表现形式的同时，亦赋予自然本身一种超现实的色彩。
周依的作品是想象、文学、神话、哲学和新技术的复杂结合体，且弥漫着中国和地中海文化气息。她的作品酝含了令人不安的魔力，描写虚幻、超自然的角色与地脉，同时以无意识的象征性语言阐释短暂的生命、爱与死亡。
周依的作品通过将大理石雕塑和35mm胶片等古老的表现手法，与3D动画等高科技的表现形式融会贯通, 展现出带有嘲讽和风趣意味的超时空人生观。
周依自述：
1. 我的作品是关於一个即时的平衝世界里之建设、破坏、瓦解、重建、转化及巩固。
2. 新世界都是远古、现在、幻想及潜意识的梦想世界之综合体。
3. 作品视觉阶由重重不同的媒体展示。从模糊到显著的，每一个都是主题，而它的内容同是人文活动的细节与结论。
周依在巴黎的Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont举办过个展，并在纽约的Deitch Projects举办过现场艺术表演。她的很多影片作品都先後入选威尼斯国际电影节及圣得西电影节竞赛环节。
New York Times
Special Report: Contemporary Art
The Frenetic World of Yi Zhou
SHANGHAI — Imagine that van Gogh, after slicing off his ear, finds himself sucked down a passage into his own brain, which turns out to be the concentric onion of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Then capture that journey with three-dimensional digital imaging software and turn it, frame by computerized frame, into a five-minute animated movie.
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