Hauser & Wirth Zurich opens an exhibition of new works by David Zink Yi
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Hauser & Wirth Zurich opens an exhibition of new works by David Zink Yi
Installation view, ‘David Zink Yi. Rare Earths’, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, until 29 February 2020. © David Zink Yi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.



ZURICH.- ‘Rare Earths’ comprises new ceramic works which engage with the artist’s direct and intuitive approach to his practice. Rooted in process-based abstraction and the alchemic possibilities of the artist’s materials, the exhibited bodies of works represent a point of departure from previous ceramic sculptural pieces as the artist’s new aesthetic diverges from figuration.

Zink Yi is a multimedia artist par excellence. He works with film, installation, performance, sculpture, ceramics, and by extension (in the form of glazes and prints, for example) also with painting. This leads to completely new forms of expression and subjects, yet there is one invisible thread that unites his work: his interest in processes, origins, and the organic connections of things that are imbued with a sensual and intuitive component. Whether they are landscape photographs, jazz music, or ceramics, Zink Yi’s works are grounded in working with the hands—about the relationship of the body to the object and the spirit playing with fantasy.

This direct, resolute approach to materials stems from Zink Yi’s background. Born in Lima, Peru, in 1973, he grew up with his Chinese grandfather who ran a tannery and also had an impressive collection of Chinese ceramics at home, which was a source of great fascination for Zink Yi as a child. His other grandfather, who was originally from Germany, was a cooper who built his own furniture for his home. Zink Yi decided to go to Germany for his studies, and he first trained as a cook, before studying wood sculpture in Munich and visual arts in Berlin. Growing up in surroundings characterised by crafts and different cultures had an impact on Zink Yi’s conception of himself as an artist: not only is a certain amount of eclecticism inherent in his work, it is actually the fertile ground on which he constantly develops his work with patience, curiosity, and the pleasure of experimentation with forms, colours, and materials.

The current exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich represents a completely new approach to this basic concept. The large kiln for ceramics in Zink Yi’s Berlin studio, allows him to create objects ranging from small to over life-size. With it he has created a series of playful, bowlike forms, made of dark stoneware, which he has positioned on the gallery’s large window façade. Titled ‘Garabato’, which translates as ‘scribble’ in Spanish, these forms stand out from the transparent surface like abstract drawings. While their sculptural character evokes the simple vocabulary of Post-Minimalism, their manual, crafted component is evident.

The viewer encounters a group of steles in the space made from fired stoneware of various colours in a similar way. Their forms mainly derive from the floorplans of high-rise buildings in Hong Kong. Imperfections that are part of the production and firing process give a performative component to the sculptures. This impression is supported by the diversely glazed sculpture ‘Untitled (rk1 Climax)’. Both work groups exude something open, raw, and consciously unfinished.

A multitude of smaller, longer, and colourfully glazed sculptures (‘All My Colours’) complete this interplay: placed in a long row on the wall, they form an abstract, serially arranged relief, while being simultaneously reminiscent of samples of materials or glazes, or simply of fish, slugs, or other sea creatures. The ensemble that Zink Yi has composed for this exhibition is enigmatic: each individual part conveys a tone that contributes to the collective sound of this maritime, minimalistic fabric of associations.










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