THE COMEL AWARD FINALISTS

Xin Zhang

Huai’an (Cina)
zxin0770@gmail.com

THE COMEL AWARD FINALISTS

Xin Zhang

Huai’an (Cina)
zxin0770@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Xin Zhang, born in 2000, is a young Chinese artist studying Painting and Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (2024/25). She holds a degree in 2D and 3D Animation from Changchun University of Technology (2019-2023), a high school diploma with Italian language studies, and a master in Painting and Visual Arts. Her artistic practice blends digital and traditional techniques, creating works that are full of movement, color, and emotion. She has exhibited personal projects, such as “The Dance of Butterflies,” and teaches art to children, sharing her creativity and artistic sensitivity.

ARTWORK IN CONTEST

TENDA DI LAME, 2025

SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION - Suspended installation, steel and aluminium
50 x 140 x 2 cm

Observing the work of Xin Zhang, one immediately senses the contrast between the soft laying of the metallic mantle, resting gently like a fountain, and the silhouette of the blades, arranged flat like a brilliant, precious weave, which reveals in close view something sharp, even aggressive. It is in this contrast that the peculiarity of the work lies, seeming to allude to the inner movements of life, or conversely, to deceptive visual projections—what appears and is not, and vice versa, what is hidden and precious, unseen, beyond the gaze.

AWARDS

COMEL AWARD 2025 FINALIST