Introduction
In an exhibition overflowing with words, one stands out: Bored
Jaded from an early age, Wang Yifan was reluctantly thrust into his art career in his teens. Drawing was his hobby, mixing with street punks was his habit. Star Gallery is proud to present “The Renegade Painting,” his first solo show.
The main body of works exhibited in the exhibition is Wang Yifan’ s Cherish series of blackboard-like canvases filled with jumbled script. Stories, confessions, musings and secrets that perhaps should be pushed under the rug are aired here like laundry.
Also exhibited are his epic 24-hour video work entitled “Wang Yifan’ s Clock – A Stakeout on Time” and a uniquely appealing set of sculptures specially installed in the gallery titled Through the Window. This series integrates found objects, old windows collected from demolition sites around Beijing, with photography. A characteristic of Wang Yifan’ s work is paying subtle tribute to his hometown through his unapologetic use of Beijing slang and his candor.
More Beijing Flavor than Peking Duck
Aside from the Beijing dialect abundant in his paintings, there’s nothing particular on his agenda. Wang Yifan is an everyman’s man, profoundly honest and non-judgmental. He’s a bad egg, but he’s somehow forgivable.
Wang Yifan’ s body of work challenges the fashionable materials among China’s avant-garde by debasing them to their lowest form. The artist’s self-abasing nature also contests the superstar persona and idealistic hero nature of artists today.
Wang Yifan was born in Beijing in 1978 and was educated at both the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Tsinghua University’s Fine Arts Department from which he graduated in 2003. He was a part of the 2006 landmark exhibition of Chinese Post 70s artists Naughty Kids. This is his first solo exhibition.
Jaded from an early age, Wang Yifan was reluctantly thrust into his art career in his teens. Drawing was his hobby, mixing with street punks was his habit. Star Gallery is proud to present “The Renegade Painting,” his first solo show.
The main body of works exhibited in the exhibition is Wang Yifan’ s Cherish series of blackboard-like canvases filled with jumbled script. Stories, confessions, musings and secrets that perhaps should be pushed under the rug are aired here like laundry.
Also exhibited are his epic 24-hour video work entitled “Wang Yifan’ s Clock – A Stakeout on Time” and a uniquely appealing set of sculptures specially installed in the gallery titled Through the Window. This series integrates found objects, old windows collected from demolition sites around Beijing, with photography. A characteristic of Wang Yifan’ s work is paying subtle tribute to his hometown through his unapologetic use of Beijing slang and his candor.
More Beijing Flavor than Peking Duck
Aside from the Beijing dialect abundant in his paintings, there’s nothing particular on his agenda. Wang Yifan is an everyman’s man, profoundly honest and non-judgmental. He’s a bad egg, but he’s somehow forgivable.
Wang Yifan’ s body of work challenges the fashionable materials among China’s avant-garde by debasing them to their lowest form. The artist’s self-abasing nature also contests the superstar persona and idealistic hero nature of artists today.
Wang Yifan was born in Beijing in 1978 and was educated at both the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Tsinghua University’s Fine Arts Department from which he graduated in 2003. He was a part of the 2006 landmark exhibition of Chinese Post 70s artists Naughty Kids. This is his first solo exhibition.
