在飞速造就全球化的时代，抛开浮泛的社会意义与形式审美，张恩利着迷于一种具有“灰度”的虚无空间。他将眼光投射到社会活动与制度结构最深层次的连接点——日常生活，构建其精神与心理的真实境遇。（张晴）

2011年12月9日至12月22日，张恩利个展将于上海美术馆举行。这将是继他2010年底的民生美术馆个展之后又一重要的美术馆展览。在此次展览中，将会集中展示张恩利近期“静物”及“空间”系列的重要作品。“东西”一直是张恩利近年来创作中主要关注的点。普通的东西，日常生活中最不起眼、用得最多、不被注意到的东西往往成为他着迷的对象。这些平凡旧物在张恩利淡然却准确的笔触下，展现出残留其中最真实的生活印记。与此同时，“空间”也是多年来张恩利迷恋的主题，从他的绘画中我们常常发现艺术家在看似平淡无奇的场景中发掘出被时间消磨与损耗留下的气息。他不断选择我们早已熟知的事物作为他的创作主题，使我们对这些司空见惯的事物重新予以注视。

张恩利，1965年生于吉林。1989年毕业于无锡轻工业大学艺术学院。如今生活工作在上海。近期参加的重要展览有：2010年光州双年展，万人谱，光州双年展馆，光州美术馆，光州民间博物馆，韩国；2008年快城快客 —第七届上海双年展，上海美术馆，上海；2007年循环，没什么可看，Objectif Exhibitions，安特卫普, 比利时。近期个展有：2011年张恩利个展，HAUSER & WIRTH，纽约，美国；2010年张恩利个展，民生现代美术馆，上海；2009年张恩利个展，伯尔尼美术馆，伯尔尼，瑞士；2009年张恩利个展，Ikon美术馆，伯明翰，英国。

In the era which forges globalization at an unprecedented speed, ZHANG Enli leaves aside the general social significance and aesthetics and is obsessed with his empty sphere with “gray scale”. He takes a close look at the joint point in its deepest level where social activity and the structure of system meets —— everyday life, and constructs the real scenarios on both spiritual and mental basis. (ZHANG Qing)

ZHANG Enli Solo Exhibition is to be staged in Shanghai Art Museum from December 9th to 22nd in 2011. And it is another crucial museum exhibition ever after the one in Minsheng Art Museum in the end of 2010. In this exhibition in December, important works from newly completed series Still Life and Space will be displayed. “Things” always stand as the focus of the artist’s creation these years. Ordinary things, which are least attractive, the most widely utilized and the most unlikely to be noticed in everyday life, however, become the objects that fascinate the artist. They are rendered by his plain and yet accurate brushes to manifest the ultimate realness of life left in them. Moreover, “space” is another theme that captivates the artist’s eyes. From ZHANG’s paintings, we often detect his discovery of aroma emitted from the passage and erosion of time under seemingly mundane circumstances. Again and again, he opts for the things that appear far too familiar to us as the themes of his creation and prompts our reconcentration on them.

ZHANG Enli was born in 1965 in Jilin Province. Graduated from Arts & Design Institute of Wuxi Technical University in 1989, the artist is currently working and living in Shanghai. He has displayed his works in Gwangju Biennale 2010 - 10,000 Lives (Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju Folk Museum, Korea), Trans Local Motion - 7th Shanghai Biennale 2008 (Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai) and Circulate, There is Nothing to See, Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp, Belgium, 2007). The most recent solo exhibitions of the artist include Zhang Enli, Hauser & Wirth, New York, U.S.A. (2011), Zhang Enli, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2010), Zhang Enli, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2009) and Zhang Enli, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. (2009).