Yi Zhu focuses on the physical attribute of life and sense the expansion and contraction. Deconstructing materiality and reconstructing spirituality, he creates the spiritual world of his imagination.

Uniqueness, imagination, creativity, and freshness can be found in the works of Yi Zhu. He constructs the physicality of life and spiritual catharsis among species, human and space. His works preserve the contraction and expansion of life.

I am not just painting. I am painting thoughts.

Yi Zhu's creativity is as follows: “I express my subjective feelings and attitudes toward life on canvas, while sensing the inspection of my works from lives outside of the canvas. I create on the basis of species, life and space, elements of the focus of the society. It is creativity on the level of imagination to reconstruct the spiritual world. Through my works, I explore the complex feelings and desires behind life, which are infusing my works with deeper dimensions and touches.”

Yi Zhu’s creativity and worldview;

My creation consists of the materiality and the abstraction. In the physical world, I create a spiritual world of the abstraction. I deconstruct the structure of the materiality, and reconstruct my spiritual world on abstraction.

The fundamental of life is to breathe. The exhale is expansion while the inhale is contraction. This is the physicality of life. In the social context, there is attitude and spirit to the inhale and the exhale of the human physicality. This is a relationship of deconstruction, a realization of the reconstruction of the visuals for the spiritual world.

I have been deeply influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy on logic and propositions, along with the viewpoints such as “you can break red vessels but not the red color”.

 My creative philosophy in painting is deconstructivism and reconstructivism. I reconstruct the new visuals in a parallel world, with the deconstruction of the materiality of the physical world. I decompose myself to pursue the struggle and dignity of the fundamental of life in a parallel world.

A purely idealistic subjective expression.

Materiality to the world of desires and breathing for survival is as the spirituality of humans to the luxury of expansion and contraction of breathing for life.

I’m not going into this world of structures and rigid languages. I’m creating a new space of visual languages for the position of the soul, as a bridge connecting the virtual to the real. I enable the perception of the vibrant colors and dignity of life in my works. 

What needs to vanish is not my virtual spirit but the rigid thoughts for life from the rigid structures of the world. This is a question of the perception of the origination of life.

Because of my paintings, you see yourself.

Deconstruct materiality. Reconstruct spirituality.