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In Chinese traditional literature, quite often poems were simply named after the first of a stream of emotional images evoked by the first line of the text. |
In Chinese traditional literature, quite often poems were simply named
after the first of a stream of emotional images evoked by the first
line of the text. Similarly, a specific work by Shanghai-based painter
Wang Xingwei lends the title to the show Wang Xingwei – Large Rowboat
at Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne/Switzerland (through July 14). At a first
sight Wang Xingwei could be taken for anyone: he could be Ingres,
Kandinsky, Duchamp, de Lempicka, just to quote some names; he could as
well be a surrealist, a photorealist, an illustrator, or even an art
forger. Wang Xingwei exploits different cultural references and
incisively combines them with an outstanding ability to exploit diverse
pictorial techniques to which he resorts ad hoc when shrewdly sifting
through the history of art.
