Associate Professor of Zhejiang Textile and Clothing Institute, member of China Artists Association, born in 1975 in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, graduated from the College of Fine Arts of Zhejiang Normal University in 1996, attended the oil painting class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2000-2001, and completed the doctoral course of the Department of Fine Arts of the State University of Normal Studies of Russia and visited the studio of Elimeyev of the Leben Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. In 2012, she completed her PhD program at the Fine Arts Department of the Russian State Normal University, and visited and studied at the Studio of Elimeyev at the Lepin Fine Arts Academy.
Chinese Name: Wu Wei
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han Chinese
Birthplace: Fenghua, Zhejiang
Date of Birth: 1975
Occupation: Oil Painter
Graduated from: Zhejiang Normal University, the Central Academy of Fine Arts and so on
Representative Works: Assumptions and Doubts, Journey to Delvo 2, The Journey to Delvaux 2", "Silence in the Afternoon", "Condensed Time 1", "The Walker Has Mountains"
Sina microblogging: @wuweiart
Personal Experience
2013 "Post-Consciousness" "Situation" Chinese Contemporary Young Realistic Artists Invitational Exhibition Beijing Light and Time Experience Center
2012 "The Compass Game - A Prequel", and other three pieces of work New Realistic Painting Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2012 "Or the Wind is Light, or the Dance" "Still Water Runs Deep" New Realistic Power Oil Painting Exhibition at the Pan China Art Center, Shanghai
2012 "A Slightly Late Spring", E Jinghua - Artron Artists' Exhibition at the Times Art Museum, Beijing
2010 Chirico Square" "Times Cup" China Youth Realistic Art Exhibition (Excellence Award) Beijing Times Art Museum
2010 "Birds and Lies" The Fifth 2010 National Recommended Exhibition of Young and Middle-aged Artists Shanghai Mingyuan Art Center
2010 "Memory of the Peak" Asian Games Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition (Invited Academic Award) Beijing, China. Invited Academic Award), Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Beijing
2009 "Lonely Mountain Hibernation Drawing" Open Expression-2009 Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
2009 Prospects and Breakthroughs-Seven Artists from Zhejiang Textile and Clothing Institute Group Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum
2008 "Peak Memory", The Fifth 2010 National Recommended Exhibition of Young and Middle-aged Artists, Shanghai Mingyuan Art Center
2010 "Memories of the Peak 2008 "Counting the Flow of Characters" 2008 Hundred Jinling Oil Painting Exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2007 "Little Cold", The Second National Oil Painting Exhibition of Landscape and Style (Excellence Prize), Shanghai
2007 "Nine Peaches Returning to the One", Invitational Exhibition of Chinese and South Korean Oil Paintings, Busan, Ningbo Art Museum
2007 "Nine Peaches Returning to the One", The Second National Oil Painting Exhibition, Busan, Ningbo, China p>2006 "Nine Peaches to One" "Coordinates" Zhejiang Province College Teachers Oil Painting Nomination Exhibition, Ningbo Hangzhou
2006 "The Young Moon Fosters the Evening" "Qunshi Prize" Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Works Exhibition (Bronze Prize) Hangzhou
2005 "Nine Nine - Window Pane Peach Figure" "Moon Reflecting Zhejiang Tide" Zhejiang Province Oil Painting Exhibition (Excellence Award) Ningbo Art Museum
2003 "Clouds along the Tigris River" China Artists Association Seventeenth New Talent and New Works Exhibition Beijing Yanhuang Art Museum
2003 "We come from all over the world Zhejiang Province, the Third Youth Art Exhibition Hangzhou West Lake Art Museum
2002 "1942" in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the "speech" National Art Exhibition Hangzhou, Beijing
2001 "Beijing Goodbye" and three other works of the Central Academy of Fine Arts training class exhibition in Beijing, China's National Art Museum
Art List p>Artistic Timeline
2016 The Second "Classics and Inheritance - National Realistic Oil Painting Famous Artists Invitation Exhibition", as Artistic Director, Ningbo Art Museum; Zhejiang Oil Painting Nomination Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum; Art Exchange Exhibition of East Asian Cultural Capitals. Nara Culture Capital Art Exchange Exhibition, Nara, Japan;
2015 "Classics and Inheritance" National Invitational Exhibition of Young and Middle-aged Realistic Painting Masters, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China; The Sixth Youth Art Works Exhibition of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Art Museum, Zhejiang, China;
2014 The Twelfth National Exhibition of Art Works, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou; 80 School of Painting 2014 Exhibition, New Poly Building Art Museum, Beijing; The 13th Zhejiang Province Fine Arts Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou; The 2nd Chinese Realistic Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition, Shenzhen Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen; "100 Years of Buddhism's Chinese Dream" Chinese Modern Monk and Virtue Portrait Oil Painting Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum;
2012 Ejing-Archang Artists Group Exhibition, Beijing Times Art Museum;
2010 The Fifth 2010 National Recommended Exhibition of Young and Middle-aged Artists, Shanghai Mingyuan Art Center; "Times Cup" Chinese Youth Realistic Art Exhibition (Excellence Prize), Beijing Times Art Museum; Asia Games Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition (Invited Academic Award), Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Beijing;
2009 Open Expression-2009 Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai; Prospects and Breakthroughs-Seven Works of Zhejiang Textile and Garment Academy, Ningbo Art Museum;
2008 2008 "Counting the Flow of Characters", 2008 Hundred Jinling Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Jiangsu Art Museum;
2007 China-Korea Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum, Pusan; The Second National Oil Painting Exhibition of Landscape and Style (Excellence Prize), Shanghai;
2006 "Group Star Award" Zhejiang Province Excellent Works Exhibition (Bronze Award), Hangzhou; "Coordinates" Zhejiang Province College Teachers Oil Painting Nomination Exhibition, Ningbo, Hangzhou;
2005 "Moon Reflecting the Tide of Zhejiang Province Zhejiang Provincial Oil Painting Exhibition (Award of Excellence), Ningbo Art Museum;
2003 Zhejiang Province, the Third Youth Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, West Lake Museum of Art; China Artists Association, the seventeenth exhibition of new works of new artists, Beijing Yanhuang Art Museum;
2002 "1942" to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the "speech" issued by the national
2002 "1942" Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the "Speech", Hangzhou and Beijing;
2001 Exhibition of Works from the Advanced Training Class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Art Museum, Beijing;
Exhibition Experiences
May 2017 "The Third Classics and Inheritance" National Invitational Exhibition of Works by Famous Young and Middle-aged Realistic Painters Invitational Exhibition of Realistic Painting Works of Famous Artists, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, Zhejiang
May, 2017 2017 Eighty School of Painting Realistic Oil Painting Works Tour Exhibition-Shanghai Station Jindehui Life Aesthetics Space, ShanghaiMay, 2017 Eighty School of Painting Realistic Oil Painting Works Tour Exhibition-Beijing Station Shanshui Art Museum, BeijingAugust, 2016 Beijing Times Museum of Art, BeijingJuly, 2016 "Beijing-Beijing" Chinese Contemporary Youth Realistic Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition, Amity Art Museum, Beijing, May, 2016 "Jinling has an appointment" Chinese Contemporary Powerful Youth Realistic Oil Painting Exhibition, Jiangdong Art Museum, Nanjing, Jiangsu, May, 2016 "Transmutation" 2016 Contemporary Chinese Figurative Painting Academic Invitational Exhibition Xinyada-Sanqingshang Art Center, Zhejiang-Hangzhou, China, March, 2016 The Second "Classics and Inheritance-National Realistic Oil Painting Celebrities Invitational Exhibition" Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, December, 2015 December "Integration - Expansion" 2015 Zhejiang Oil Painting Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, Zhejiang, November 2015 "Heart - Life" Group Exhibition, Zoomart Art Museum, Beijing, Chaoyang, September 2015 "The Return", Shanshui Art Museum, Beijing, China Return" Shanshui Art Museum Opening Exhibition Shanshui Art Museum Beijing, October, 2014 Eighty School of Realistic Oil Painting Exhibition Poly Art Museum Beijing, July, 2014 "Hundred Flowers Blossom" - "Academy Stars" Parallel Exhibition Zero Art Center, Beijing, April 2014 International Figurative & Abstract Exhibition, Ningbo 117 Contemporary Art Center, Ningbo, Zhejiang, January 2014 "Figurative Research Classical Realistic" Invitational Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Phoenix Yidu Art Museum, Wuxi, Jiangsu, November 2013 2013 Eighty School of Painting, Realistic Oil Paintings Asia Art Center (Beijing Pavilion), Beijing, September 2013 "Illusion - Remaining" Chinese Contemporary Young Realistic Oil Painting Representatives Ten Exhibition, Meilidao International Art Organization, Beijing, March 2013 "Real" Chinese Contemporary Young Realistic Artists Invitational Exhibition, Light and Time Experience Center, Beijing, November 2012 Time Experience Center, Beijing, November 2012, Still Water Runs Deep, New Power of Realism, Renaissance Shanghai Yuyuan Hotel, Shanghai, April 2012, 2012 New Realistic Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Award Records
2010, "Time Cup", China Youth Realistic Art Exhibition (Award of Excellence), Times Art Museum, Beijing, China. ), Times Art Museum, Beijing;
2007 The Second National Oil Painting Exhibition of Landscape and Style (Excellence Award), Shanghai;
2006 "Qunxing Prize" Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Works Exhibition (Bronze Prize), Hangzhou;
2005 "Moonlight Reflecting the Tide of Zhejiang Province "Zhejiang Province Oil Painting Exhibition (Excellence Award), Ningbo Art Museum
Published Books
2014 Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House, "The Second Chinese Realistic Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition Collection"
2013 Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House, "Chinese Oil Painter - Wu Wei" 2013 Jiangxi Fine Arts Publishing House, "Fluid Art - Classic Realistic Figurative Research - Classical Realism (Upper Volume)
2012 Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House "2012 New Realistic Oil Painting Exhibition Collection"
2011 Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House "Fine Arts Archives - Chinese Oil Painting - Volume 2"
2010 Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House "Fine Arts Archives - Chinese Oil Painting - Volume 1"
2010 Jilin Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House "Bank of Communications - Times Cup - China Youth Realistic Art Exhibition"
2009 Xiling Yinshe Publishing House "Expansion and Extension - Collection of Oil Paintings by Wu Wei"
2008 Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House "Collection of Works of the 2008 China Hundred Golden Paintings Exhibition (Oil Paintings)"
2007 Shanghai Jinxiu Essay Publishing House "Collection of Works of the Second National Scenic - Scenery Collection of Works of the Second National Oil Painting Exhibition"
Creative Insights
"Ideal on the Shelf"
Everyone has the desire to express. Some people like to speak, constantly expounding their views and concepts; people like to sing, on a stage where no one is around; some people are willing to write blogs and publish their every day; some people still dip their brushes in ink and write diaries on rice paper. Poets write poems, musicians compose music, directors make movies, and painters paint, all for the sake of expression. I chose to paint, and chose realistic painting, naturally, because of the will to do so. Nowadays, realistic painting is just like a piece of bark in a big art tree, which won't get much attention, and I hope I can be a cozy bug on this piece of bark.
Beyond the Realm
We have multiple identities in real life, but there is a non-realistic character who only exists in the realm of the mind, who doesn't exist in reality, but only wanders in the realm of the mind. Here, I will often direct a play that is not complicated, letting myself become the audience at the same time; I will also play different roles in the play, sometimes it will be a piece of fluttering cloud, sometimes it will be a long shadow
In the non-reality of the state of mind, retaining my unbridled space, where there is only a materialistic expression, no materialistic framework. In the corner of reality, I always look forward to freely traveling inside and outside of my mind. Painting is an expression of the heart, and the state of mind makes the state of painting. It is only when there is something to think about that there will be a state of mind, and without thinking there will be no state of mind. In real life, I am constantly moving in and out of my mind and practicing in and out of my mind.
Wu Wei2011-2-16
Other people's comments
Drama: a kind of reality of the mind
-Wu Wei's oil painting offerings
Wen Wang Peng
Wu Wei's works have a strong sense of drama, and it can be said that he is one of the few artists in China nowadays who has a strong sense of humor. It can be said that he is one of the few young oil painters in China who focuses on the consciousness of human nature.
In the face of all kinds of things in this era, he thinks from multiple angles and cultural interfaces such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, etc., and analyzes the state of existence and mind of modern people from a profound and unique point of view; he decodes the psychological problems that modern people need to solve urgently with dramatic and interesting plots; he organically transforms the invisible consciousness of human nature into a credible reality by means of the dramatic expression of painting; and he uses his pictures to turn the human nature into a credible reality. Through the dramatic expression of his paintings, he organically transforms the invisible consciousness of the human mind into a credible reality; he describes the perplexities of modern people with his paintings, so that people can break out of the foggy mental thicket, recognize themselves, and face life bravely.
In Wu Wei's series of works such as "Compass Game - Prequel", "Prophecy and Revelation", "Birds and Lies", "Lonely Mountain Stunning Picture", and "The Game of the Karawakashi Bridge", the paintings are characterized by the intensification of a frozen moment, and the ideology of the characters is expressed through the static expressions, eyes, and gestures of the common recreational activities in life; and the works are narrated by the means of the ups and downs and rhythms of the picture and the body language. The works use the undulations, rhythms and body language contained in the pictures to tell the stories that happen at a specific time, "directing" the beauty of the plot and revealing the reality of the dramatic conflicts triggered by the emotions in the hearts of the characters. In this way, it conveys the painter's extreme humanistic concern and reflection on human nature.
The series of works such as "Tomorrow's Thoughts", "The Wind and the Moon", "The Situation", "Singing in the Middle of the Night", "A Dream in the Garden-1-3", "Lunar Eclipse", "Man Dance", and "A Slightly Late Spring", etc., are the portrait paintings of the oil painter Wu Wei, who, with his realistic skills, classical colors and dramatic sensory stimulation, creates a concrete embodiment of the theatrical characteristics of paintings; the works in these series are the concrete embodiment of the theatrical characteristics of paintings; the works in these series are the concrete embodiment of the theatrical characteristics of paintings. He uses realistic skills, classical colors and dramatic sensory stimulation to create a specific embodiment of the characteristics of drama in his paintings; the intuitive appearance of the characters and psychology in the hypothetical situations in his works, as well as the specific environments, specific psychological contents, and specific actions***harmonies, project the causal relationship and artistic connotations of dramatic paintings. Thus, showing the painter's independent aesthetic realm.
It should be emphasized that Wu Wei's use of light in the picture fully embodies the religious meaning and euphemistic classical charm, so that contemporary painting and classical spirit are blended. The theatrical stage lighting in his works has a poetic artistic style of "substituting light for scenery and conveying feelings with light", which implies the multiplicity of divinity, conflict, dream, mutation, solitude and contradiction.
In the vision of contemporary painting, we have the responsibility to use the formal language of art to artistically reflect on humanistic concern and humanistic consciousness:
Because the highest level of art is the art of humanistic spirit, the art of the mind;
Because art is a field of culture or a form of cultural value;
Because art is the artist's concern for reality and self-humanistic consciousness. the artist's concern for reality and the true expression of his or her self-concept of humanity.
May Wu Wei's dramatic oil paintings be a revelation to us in the creation of contemporary paintings.
The author is the deputy director and professor of the Institute of Culture and Art Planning and Promotion of Renmin University of China
And the president of the Foundation for Chinese Contemporary Art in the U.S.A.
Works Appreciation
Wu Wei's dramatic oil paintings will inspire us to create paintings nowadays.