“THE METAMORPHOSIS” is Wang Haiyang’s first solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING, featuring two videos he completed in the last three years. Surrealistic narrative and imaginative transformation combine in his works to build a free world. As an artist, he believes his practice was born of his experience in painting. By repeatedly painting with pigments on the same sandpaper sheets and then erasing the paintings, he does not offer the audience an original painting in the ordinary sense. In the two videos he has finished, Freud, Fish and Butterfly (2009) and Double Fikret (2012), we can invariably find something outside the painting that reminds us of its boundary (limit). When an image “touches” the framed plane or “intrudes” into another plane, we have actually reached the anxieties involved in the artist’s pictorial experience: the painting is a projection of our inner world on a plane that leads to the loss of the dark depths in the inner world. The experience he gets from animation will surely find its expression in his paintings as well.
WANG HAIYANG, Double Fikret, 2012, Single channel Video, 3’ 27
WANG HAIYANG, Double Fikret, 2012, Single channel Video, 3’ 27
WANG HAIYANG, Double Fikret, 2012, Single channel Video, 3’ 27
WANG HAIYANG, Double Fikret, 2012, Single channel Video, 3’ 27
About the artist
In 2012, his new film Double Fikret won Silver Dove 55th DOK Leipzig Film festival, Montreal's 11th Sommets du cinéma d'animation has been selected more than 10 festivals until December, 2012, included 40th World Festival of Animated Film-Animafest Zagreb, Fantoche, Drama, 30th FESTIVAL TOUS COURTS, 38th International Filmet Festival of Spain. His first film Freud, Fish and Butterfly won Grand Prix 25th Holland animation festival in 2011, has been selected by Zagreb, Denmark, London, France, Canada more than 10 festivals.
About the exhibition
Duration: December 15th, 2012 – February 24th, 2013
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Courtesy of the artists and White Space Beijing.
