Painting is the result of gazing, but more importantly, an artist's rhetoric. The experience from gazing usually tends to be considered as "reality" and as the standard for the observation of the world. Artists, however, often challenge such "reality", i.e., to reveal the reality under the cover of the so-called "reality" by means of a rhetoric of vision. It is probably the logic that Na Wei always adheres to in his art practice. From the metonymic use of "blue" and "white" to identify the hospital gown to the intertextuality between the color and realism involved, using rhetoric to express the result of gazing has always been his way, or approach, to reflect on our reality. Even the recent triptychs reveal his unique rhetoric from gazing to view the "color-silk" medium, direct representation of the property of tin-tube pigments along with the intertextuality between "blue" and "white" and realism. Beneath such rhetoric lies his perception of the world as an individual.
Hang Chunxiao
Scene of Cutted off Bamboo Used as a Dagger 2010; Oil on canvas 150cmX120cmX3
Scene of the Drunker Surrounded by Distant Plum, 2011; oil on can vas, 120cmX150cm
Scene of Paddle without Boat, 2010; Oil on canvas, 170cmX150cmX3
About the Exhibition
Opening time: 3:00pm, June 2, 2012
Duration: 2012.06.03 -- 2012.06.10
Location: The 1st floor exhibition hall of building No.3, Today Art Museum
Courtesy of Na Wei and Today Art Museum. for further information please visit www.todayartmuseum.com.
