Grids Painting

Nov. 10, 2012-Dec. 16, 2012

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Wang Qingsong

 

Text/ Gallery 100

The Gallery 100 is pleased to announce the coming exhibition Grids Painting, the latest series by the contemporary Chinese conceptual photographer Wang Qingsong at the Dunhua Space on view from November 10, 2012. Nearly 4 years of working process along with the consistently parody critical style Wang has been applying to his artworks, this time the artist turns his attention to the inner contradiction arisen in conceptual paintings. Grids Painting Series resonates with abstract geometrical forms in minimal art, giving a general impression of rationality that is usually conveyed through contemporary conceptual paintings. Wang deconstructs the formation of textile bag patterns in different color grades and adopts the idea of photographic pixel to transmit the appearance of an object onto canvas. The whole process of painting becomes an overly repeated and mechanized manner; the artist has to reduce his own expression and creativity accordingly to the minimum level. As a result, the subjectivity of creator is forced to give up the throne to merely play the role of carrying out the duplicate manner as an intermediary mechanism and a contributor of physical laboring. With this formula, such artistic practice of reprinting patterns of textile bag would, however, be able to produce photorealist images, which challenges the autonomy of painting itself and simultaneously reveals the internal crisis of emotion deficiency in the overly pursuit of objectivity and cerebralism in contemporary conceptual art.