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Wang Guangyi
ang Guangyi (1957 Heilongjiang) is one of the pioneers of Chinese contemporary art movement and the leader of the “Political Pop” movement. Wang has created his own brand of paintings and sculptures based on heroic images borrowed from the Cultural Revolution. In the 1980s, he created a sensation in Beijing by challenging standard portraits of Mao. He painted the Chairman behind a set of grids or boxed lines, hinting at a needed re-examination of the Chinese leader. And in the 1990s, his “Great Criticism” series of Cultural Revolution portraits were hailed as a clever blend of Communist propaganda and western commercialism. By placing some of the world’s most recognizable brand names and logos, like Coca-Cola, Visa and McDonald’s, in Maoist China – Wang Guangyi seemingly mocked the propaganda of both east and west. He has also, in some ways, fashioned a powerful set of new symbols for the world's fastest growing economy, one swept up in the race to become a capitalist country with socialist characteristics. Wang lives and works in Beijing.



1994-2001 No. 1/9, 1994-2001, Photograph, 60×106cm



Materialists-peasant, 2005, cast iron 200×120×80cm 2/3 1000kg



Radiate Forever No 1, 2003, oil on canvas, 150×120cm



Materialist, 2001, Fibre glass and millet, 180×80×80



Mao Zedong, 1988, oil on canvas, 200×150cm



The Wide World: The Necessary Parade, 1992, oil on canvas, 120×150cm



Self-Criticism: Fruits, 1992, oil on canvas, 100×100cm



Secret Advertisement, installation



Great-Criticism-Art No



Great-Criticism-Tang



Great-Criticism-Montana



Great-Criticism-Art-Museum No



Materialist Age,2000



Great Criticism: Davidoff,1997,oil on canvas,150×120cm



The History of a Newspaper,2002



Great Criticism: Cartier,2002,oil on canvas,300×200cm



Great Criticism: Marlboro,1998,oil on canvas,150×120cm



Great Criticism: 555,1996,oil on canvas,150×150cm



Holy Mother and Child



Black Rationality: Pathological Analysis,1987,oil on canvas,85×75cm



Post-Classical: Gospel of Matthew,1986,oil on canvas,120×110cm

Exhibition list
Solo Exhibitions:

2007
Wang Guangyi, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2006
Wang Guangyi,Galerie ARARIO,Seoul,Korea

2004
Wang Guangyi,Galerie Urs Meile,Lucerne,Switzerland

2003
Wang Guangyi,Galerie Enrico Navarra,Paris,France

2001
Wang Guangyi, Gallery Bellefroid, Paris, France.

1997
Wang Guangyi, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Swiaerland.

1994
Wang Guangyi, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

1993
Wang Guangyi, Gallery Bellefroid, Paris, Frace.

Group Exhibitions:

2006
‘Jiang Hu’,Tilton Gallery,New York,USA

2005
‘Invitation Exhibition-Opening Ceremony of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal’, He Xiangning Art Museum,Shenzhen,China

‘Plato and his seven spirit’,Beijing,China,”OCAT” Art Terminal

2004
‘Body-China’,Museum of Contemporary Art,Marseille,France

2003
‘ALORS,LA CHINE?’,Pompidou Art Center,Paris,France

2002
‘Paris-Peiking’Escape Cardin,Paris,France

“Take Part Ⅱ”Galerie Soardi,Nice,France

‘Media and Arts’,World Trade Center Exhibition Hall,Beijing,China

2001
‘New Image:20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art’,National Art Galllery,Beijing,China

‘Polypolis’,Kunsthaus,Hamburg,Germany

‘The Academic and the Non-academic’,Yibo Gallery,Shanghai,China

2000
‘In and Out’,He Xiangning Art Museum,Shenzhen,China

‘Society’,Upriver Gallery,Chengdu,China

1999
‘New Modernism for a New Millennium’,Limn Gallery,San Francisco,USA

1998
‘Made in China,Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts,Shenyang,China

1997
‘China!’,Kuenstlerhaus,Wien,Australia

‘Magie der Zahl-In der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts’Staatsgalerie,Stuttgart,Germany

1996
‘Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’,Queensland Art Gallery,Brisbane,Australia

1994
22nd International Biennale of Sao Paulo,Brazi

1993
‘China,Avant-garde’Kusthal Rotterdam,Holland

45th International Biennale of Venice,Italy

‘China`s New-Art,Post-1989’,Hong Kong Art Centre,Hong Kong,China

1991
‘Coart’,Bianca Pilat Gallery,Milan,Italy

1990
‘I Don`t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne:China`s Avant-garde’, Pacific Asian Museum,Pasadena,California

1989
‘China Avant-garde’,National Art Gallery,Beijing,China

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