transmigrate from impermanence to permanence, at the same time detaching from their daily reality of ignorance and suffering. Zhang Dali captures the spark of eternity presented in the life of each and every person. It is not the appanage granted to royals and nobles, Sublimity exists in everyone and transforms the bodies into monuments. Exhibition history Solo exhibitions 2019 "Zhang Dali per Fondantico", Fondanatico, Bologna, Italy 2018 "Meta-morphosis", Palazzo Fava, Bologna, Italy "AK-47 Di Zhang Dali", Art City, S. Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy "Monumental Nature", Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China "Beside City! Be Cityside!", Hefei Financial Harbor, Hefei, China 2017 “Body and Soul”, Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Holland 2016 “Permanence and Impermanence – New Works by Zhang Dali”, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China 2015 “Zhang Dali – World’s Shadows”, Ludwisburg Kunstverein, Ludwisburg, Germany “A Second History”, MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina “Under the Sky”, Pékin Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong, China “From Reality to Extreme Reality - Zhang Dali Retrospective Research Exhibition”, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China 2014 "Square," Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY “Square”, K Space, Chengdu, China “Zhang Dali-permanent exhibition”, Automne Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium 2013 “Second History”, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Shenyang, China 2012 “Zhang Dali Retrospective”, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY 2011 “World’s Shadows”, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China “Demolition: Second History”, The Charles Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London, CT “New Slogan,” Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY 2010 “Extreme Reality”, Tank Loft, Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chonqing, China “Zhang Dali: A Second History”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China “Zhang Dali Solo Show”, Magda Danysz / Bund 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China 2009 “Pervasion: Works by Zhang Dali (1995-2008)”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China “Il Sogno Proibito della Nuova Cina”, Palazzo Inghilterra, Turin, Italy 2008 “Slogans”, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA “The Road to Freedom”, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2007 “Chinese Offspring”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY 2006 “Zhang Dali: Image and Revision in New Chinese Photography”, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN “A Second History”, Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA “Zhang Dali: A Second History”, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 “Sublimation”, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China “New Works by Zhang Dali”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 2003 “AK-47”, Galleria Il Traghetto, Venice, Italy “AK-47”, Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy 2002 “Beijing’s