Neon (Untitled No.2)

Coming from a theatre background, Zhang Hui has a heightened and nuanced sense of space, scene, and three-dimensional modelling. Neon series is the artist's criticism on artificial constructs in the world. In an orderly composition, a neon light is found misaligned — this is what the artist is questioning after examining numerous manmade structures. Similar to how Wayne Thiebaud brilliant uses primary colours to outline images, Zhang Hui uses muted red, ocher, indigo, and other colours to complement big swathe of neon lights in pastel purple. Not only does it highlight the-three-dimensionality of the neon lights, these colours also form a psychedelic abstract painting. It is a work that has a unique painterly logic.