Beijing Platform Culture and Art Development CO., Ltd-Exhibition-Wu Shan

Platform China is pleased to announce we will hold an important exhibition WU SHAN ‘Winding Path’ on 22nd December 2018. This will be our first cooperation with artist Wu Shan, as well as his first solo exhibition in Beijing.

Wu Shan, he graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Art in 1982, then he went to School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the next year. After graduation, he lived in USA for a long time until 2006 ,when he was invited to work in China Academy of Art. He is a recluse for the Chinese art circle, a person who is close to disappearing.

Starting from the language of early modernism, Wu Shan has had a keen interest in exploring the principles of modernism. In his recent works, the value of lines is reflected in a more independent manner and becomes the most central language. The paintings starting from lines also present a kind of linear growth logic and make up opportunity at all time. In particular, he does not set the final form in his line drawing on paper; rather, he begins with the possibility of structure initiated by any single line, gradually uses the mutually twisted and dependent shapes to overspread the centre of the picture, and tentatively touches the blank part of the inner edge of the rectangular picture with the organic overall outline shaped finally.

His artworks follow the intrinsic aesthetic tradition of China when running over the framework of modernism in the prime time. Wu Shan selects lacquer squarely because of the vital cultural intuition as with his selection of the names of 'Kun' Opera as the title of his works. Although we can not say clearly the virtual or notional connection between his works and opera names, the characters such as 'Qing Jiang Yin', 'Tian Jing Sha' and Yin Bu Chu can immediately arouse our visual prospect and aesthetic experience even though we are unfamiliar with 'Kun' Opera at all. It's like that he has delicately reached indigenous spiritual tradition.