‘The Poet’s Winter’
SHI ZHIYING
‘Stones’
White Space Beijing
WANG Qiang | The Poet’s Winter 10.21 – 12.08, 2017
We are delighted to announce the opening of Wang Qiang’s fourth solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING on October 21st, 2017. This exhibition will present the artist’s practice over the last two years.
Starting from the painting The Poet’s Winter, this exhibition reveals a restrained, poetic parallel world under its realistic appreance. The artist creates a continuous stream of consciousness with pictorial representations on canvas where melancholy is conveyed through light, breaking memories into isolated components―a female standing in late-night headlights; silhouettes glowing in the mist; shinning leaves at the water―and moving into figures against geometric color blocks. From the last ten years, Wang Qiang has been exploring historical signifiers and contemporary urbanism in his artistic practice featured realist techniques. Besides flatness and formal structure that has been evident in the picture plane, the artist’s new works deliberately exclude hints for time and location, elaborating emotional nuances to both respond and enrich previous creations.
Wang Qiang (b. 1971, Beijing, China) received his BFA from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1997. In 2004, he obtained his Master’s degree (i.e. Meisterschüler) at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Recent exhibitions include The Poet’s Winter, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2017); Picture Perfect, Viasaterna Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2015); Fremde Stadt, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2015). Wang Qiang currently lives and works in Beijing and Düsseldorf.
WANG Qiang, “The Poet’s Winter”
WANG Qiang, “The Poet’s Winter”
WANG Qiang, “The Poet’s Winter”
SHI Zhiying | Stones 10.21 – 12.08, 2017
We are delighted to announce the opening of Shi Zhiying’s fourth solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING on October 21st, 2017. This exhibition will showcase the most recent paintings of the artist.
In “Stones,” Shi Zhiying converts a canvas into the vehicle of real rocks, establishing a juxtaposition between painting and the object beyond image layers where color, paints and objects are no longer physically isolated. The artist conveys existing status of a substance via visual language, examining a co-existance of time and space, macrocosm and microcosm in one single matter. Rocks eliminated background information are expressed in solid or softened brushstrokes. Spatial structure, color and lines works together to highlight a circulation between menifestation and dissolution. Capturing a slow but consistant transformation among substance, canvas, existing status and emotions, the artist develops a landscape for meditation and invites the viewer to perceive the vastness beyond the picture plane.
Shi Zhiying (b. 1979, Shanghai, China) received her MFA from the Department of Oil Painting at the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University (SHU). Main exhibitions include: Stones, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2017); SHI ZHIYING, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA (2017); This moment, Liu Hiasu Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2017);Visual Questions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China(2017); The 1st Yinchuan Biennale, MoCA Yinchuan, Ningxia, China(2016); New Capital, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China(2016); My Generation – Young Chinese Artists, Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), California, U.S.A (2015); Aura of Poetry, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai, China (2014); Dust as Light, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2014). Shi Zhiying currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.
SHI Zhiying, “Stones”
SHI Zhiying, “Stones”
SHI Zhiying, “Stones”
