{"id":19131,"date":"2021-07-14T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauritsvandelaar.nl\/dan-zhu-in-kunstinstituut-melly\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:56:22","slug":"dan-zhu-in-kunstinstituut-melly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauritsvandelaar.nl\/en\/dan-zhu-in-kunstinstituut-melly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Zhu at Art Institute Melly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;19128&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h2>Dan Zhu at Art Institute Melly<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Zhu<\/strong> (1985) has a solo presentation at Art Insitute Melly titled<em> Night into Nights <\/em>on the occasion of her winning the C.o.C.A Award in 2020. The exhibition consists of murals, several large-scale works and smaller drawings. Zhu is fascinated by the subconscious and its role in imaginative processes, as well as the way in which fiction interacts with reality.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent works in the exhibition were developed during the artist\u2019s recent visit to China earlier this year, in which she explores pigments and their relation with humans. By tracing the origins of certain pigments Zhu seeks to question established notions of the materials that conform the human body. She unravels the body as a composition of minerals, which is therefore closely related to earth, soil, and materials we usually perceive as inert.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>26 June &#8211; 12 September 2021<br \/>\nArt Institute Melly, Rotterdam NL, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl\/en\/experience\/203-dan-zhu-night-into-nights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.kunstinstituurmelly.nl\u00a0<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Zhu (1985) exhibits murals, large and smaller drawings at Art Insitute Melly on the occasion of her winning the C.o.C.A Award 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[917,918],"tags":[833],"class_list":["post-19131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2021","category-nieuws-2021-en","tag-dan-zhu-en","category-917","category-918","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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