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

It is a great honor for Platform China Contemporary Art Institute to announce that “Wu Shan 2020”, the solo exhibition of artist Wu Shan, will be presented on October 17. As the second important solo exhibition of Wu Shan held at Platform China after Winding Path, this exhibition will have three independent units to constitute the narrative structure. Wang Min’an and Liang Chao will be invited to be the academic advisers of the exhibition.

Wu Shan (born in 1960) was graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in the early-1980s. Later, he studied in the US and acquired the master’s degree from the Graduate School of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lived and worked in the US for more than 20 years and was absorbed in studying on and practicing painting languages. On the one hand, Wu Shan took example by the principles of form of high modernism during his creation; on the other hand, he absorbed and transformed the aesthetic experience of Chinese tradition. He found the unique way of connecting his concepts and aesthetics in the experiment of lacquer materials and established the artistic style with personal features.

In order to intensively demonstrate the context of the artistic practices of WuShan, Platform China will separately display three parts of the exhibition at the principal space and dRoom:

On October 17, dRoom Space will display the colorized paper works, earlier lacquer paintings and some manuscripts of Wu Shan simultaneously. Selected from his lengthy time clue, these works are important parts of his art course. They provide a summary of the image book of the works to study on the individual cases of Wu Shan. The audience can realize the experiment directions of Wu Shan in different periods, and can find that he has gradually shifted from the acceptance of western modern art to the expression of Chinese aesthetics. Noticeably, recent watercolor paintings and the color block lacquer paintings in the principal space constitute an indivisible work system, showcasing the generation path and logic of the recent works of Wu Shan.