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Gallery 55
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50 Moganshan Road,
Shanghai 200060, China   map * 
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Untitled by ZHANG Wei
140 x 130 cm

Zhang Wei’s recent works expressed his recognition for reality as well as history.  From his simple composition, the artist was actually well nitting a series of rediculous as yet real events.  Amid the majority of whiteness, stories were told so naturally and amply.  In his stories, the charactors seem to be so familiar as well as strange, epitome of childhood or another ego of reality.  What appears on his canvases are in fact very familiar in reality but never actually happened.  The arists stimulates the audiences’ memories with this seemingly absurd but childish sarcasm.  How believable are those so-called true events we have heard about?  How can we distinguish the truthfulness of many things which could so easily be modified, reproduced or re-created by digital technology or simulation?  To what extent is history to our control?  Zhang Wei’s works remind us to re-exam what have happened around us & re-discover what have happened in the past.


 

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