Under the Dome
“As for me, art is a kind of special way to experience and express the life, it’s deeply rooted into the sensation of our daily life, all the methodologies and aims are fermented and generated from it.”
- Fang Wei
Inner and Outer
The structure “Dome” divides inner and outer spaces with the possibility of linking them together. The relationship between the“Inner” and “Outer” has been a clue hidden in the creation of artist since 2008. The “Inner” is mysterious, unnerving, endless dark water; while the “Outer” is regulated, realistic, omnipresent existence similar to the air. The “Inner” is my desire, impulsion and excitement, the “Outer” is the regulated daily life that we have to suffer from, as it also implies Sigmund Freud’s “Es( 自我)”, “Ich( 本我)” and “Über-Ich( 超我)”. The “Inner” and “Outer” are different from each other, yet still entangling, interwindig and recycling with each other.
Daily Life: Smashing Time and Knowledge
In this modern era with multiply mobile information terminals and highly developed internet, individual’s time and focus can be easily interrupted and distracted at any time; as the development of i-media( 自媒体) and social network, the diverging, overloading information urges us to change our way of precessing and filtering the necessary information. This is our dilemma and prison we can never escape from. We have to experience it, adapt to it and challenge it. Facing the smashing time and knowledge, Fang’s always keeping the element “Time” on his canvas, the scenes are slowly increased or reduced, filtered, then precipitated in the smashing and
broken daily experiences and sensations. The uncertain boundaries of the objects, the interwinding branches on the canvas, the splendid crystals, the weird, bizarre things and the disappearing parts — like some mysterious fog, they appear on the canvas, suggesting the uncertain, smashing daily life, with the smokes filling and lingering around, surfacing and diminishing randomly as time goes by.
Dramas and Properties
“As for me, art is a kind of special way to experience and express the life, it’s deeply rooted into the sensation of our daily life, all the methodologies and aims are fermented and generated from it.” (Fang Wei)
From the early series of “Performance of Nigthmares( 梦魇的演出)”, “Them - Another Air” and “World Park - Tetuate( 世界公园—特图亚特)” to “The World Only I know( 只有我知道的世界)”, “Silence is a Poetry that I Wrote to You( 沉默像一首写给你的诗)”, “Psychedelic Land( 无主之地)”, then the latest artworks of 2015, the dramatic characteristic is always carved into its souls, sometimes, the scenesare like bizarre yet ordinary daily life. Like a director, the artist set the roles and properties to construct the scenes on the canvas - especially the collage-drawing series “Psychedelic Land”(2013-2014) broke the boundaries of drawing and paintings, experimenting and utilizing the “drawing and painting” to set the sceneries onto the stage, opening a kind of new possibility among paintings, theatersand installations. In some degrees, the artworks can be regarded as a grand, hidden drama parallel to the individual life of the artist, which could be written endlessly in the chemical reactions between the realm of private and public time. The artworks presented in the exhibition can be divided into three different parts: “Under the Dome( 穹顶之下)”, “Homeworld of Vagabonds( 彷徨者的家园)” and “The Lost Images( 失落的图像)” “Under the Dome” is a theatre of collage representing the active. images of this “Inner” spiritual space; “Homeworld of Vagabonds” is a story telling the “Objects” and “Landscapes” in the space, “The Lost Images” is a reconstruction of the passions and impulsions in the deep shell of memory washed by the river of time. From these three different parts, the exhibition is not only showing the new series of artworks in 2015, but also presenting the visage and clues of artist’s creation since 2008.
Li Shengzhao
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