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The Note of Staying
by Gaodi Gallery
Location: Gaodi Gallery
Artist(s): WANG Haichuan
Date: 10 Jul - 25 Aug 2010

Wang Haichuan, whose major was visual art, used to work in the field of architecture and landscape design for many years. In his works, there are no figures. People tend to regard these works as cliches of landscape painting because of his portrayal of buildings and gardens. But the fact is not like that. Since 2008, artists first portrayed those monuments, and then he spread to all kinds of high-class compounds. If we ignore the brush strokes in the picture, we can almost consider these images as architectural paintings. However, the conception of these paintings happens to be in these non-painting elements. These single-colored pictures make things from the real scenes become fake. The absence of people in the pictures makes these humanized things lose their “humanities”; they look like the empty and simple decorations on the stage. Those single-colored brush strokes continuously remind us of the fakeness of the beauty and the artist’s attempt to destroy or penetrate it. Wang Haichuan’s works destroy the superficial characters of those beautiful private lives and harmonious society, but his way of doing this is plain. He attempts to demolish the trace of reality and replace it with relics of time.

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