Summary<\/p>\n
Marking the second solo exhibition of Chinese-born, New York-based painter
\nThe show takes inspiration from Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u2018After Hours\u2019 film<\/p>\n
Mai 36 Galerie<\/a> in Zurich presents Afterglow, the second solo exhibition of Chinese-born, New York-based painter Leon Xu<\/a>, on view through November 1, 2025. The show takes inspiration from Martin Scorsese\u2019s After Hours, drawing on its atmosphere of chaos, shifting control and the uneasy pull of the night.<\/p>\n Xu interprets the film\u2019s mood rather than its storyline, using airbrush and acrylic to create paintings that blur edges and dissolve into dreamlike impressions. Works such as \u201cSkyline,\u201d \u201cNeon Letters\u201d and \u201cVeils of Light\u201d appear like half-remembered moments, suspended between clarity and disappearance. The canvases capture the glow of fleeting encounters, the intensity of disorientation and the fragile calm that follows.\n<\/p>\n In Afterglow, Xu resists fixed narrative and invites viewers to linger in uncertainty. His paintings highlight how memory slips, how perception sharpens and blurs and how beauty often becomes visible only when it begins to fade.\n<\/p>\n Maie 36 Galerie
R\u00e4mistrasse 37
8001 Z\u00fcrich
Switzerland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary Marking the second solo exhibition of Chinese-born, New York-based painter The show takes inspiration from Martin Scorsese\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-43757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}