World Green Sustainable Design Award 2025 Summer Season Winners Spotlight - Yi Zhu
- World Green Sustainable Design Award
- Sep 8
- 2 min read
Yi Zhu’s award-winning oil painting series, “Industry-Driven Desire”, received the Gold Prize in Best Green Painting at the World Green Sustainable Design Award 2025 Summer Season.
Behind the artwork lies a profound exploration of the dynamics of repulsion, alignment, and attraction—a cross-disciplinary visual interpretation of the desires and tensions among industry, the environment, and individuals. At its core, the series reflects on how these forces can sustain or transform green life within our shared living environments.
Repulsion in the paintings reveals the damage inflicted by industrial processes on nature, yet also the potential for protection that arises from industrial awareness. These opposing forces evolve dynamically, moving from harm toward balance among humans, species, and spaces.
Alignment represents the stage where life and industrial desire reach a fragile consensus. In the visual language of Yi Zhu’s work, alignment is the key turning point—the transition from conflict to collaboration, and the foundation for long-term coexistence.
Attraction captures the moment when industry, humanity, and environment no longer resist one another, but instead gravitate toward deeper interaction. This attraction is born from mutual value: each party provides what the others lack, forming a green living space of interdependence, connection, and sustainability.
Through “Industry-Driven Desire,” Yi Zhu transforms oil painting into a powerful visual discourse on industry and ecology, offering both critique and hope—a call to reimagine how differences can become relationships, how conflict can lead to consensus, and how consensus can blossom into meaningful connection.
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About the Artist:
Mr. Yi Zhu is an artist from Beijing, China.
Mr. Yi Zhu is an expressive artist who has focused on deconstructive and reconstructive style painting during the period of great social changes in China. The transformation of China's social and economic structure has shaped his worldview. Confronted with the struggles and yearnings of human nature amid various social phenomena, Mr. Yi Zhu has created numerous printworks and oil paintings. Through imaginative creation, he has built a spiritual perception in his works: deconstructing materiality and reconstructing spirituality.
Within the frame lies the imagination of my subjective idealism; beyond the frame exists the perception of your objective initiative.
Through the creative concept of "Deconstructing and Reconstructing Painting Expressionism", Mr. Yi Zhu has demonstrated the dignity and struggles of humans and various species amid profound social changes, and conveyed respect for life and the environment through his works.
