Platform China Contemporary Art Institute is honored to announce that the latest solo exhibition of artist QI Wenzhang will be held in dRoom on November 28, 2020.

“Where are you going?” is a question with two connotations, among which, “you” means both the painting and the artist himself. The exhibition, themed by a question, will introduce individual responses of QI Wenzhang, presenting the artistic goals that he pursues in the continuous self-examination. The paintings of QI Wenzhang often feature narrativity in the style of postmodern literature, and the artist pursues strange feeling during the depiction of images. Through the inheritance of formal experience in modernism, he has developed his own style of painting. He is good at translating and reconstructing the pictorial heritage in painting history so as to produce new meanings. In his recent practice, his works display more distinct concerns about the realistic condition, and his experiments on formal language get more profound.

The works selected for exhibition are recently created by him, mostly in small and medium size, and they constitute an important part of his exploration of artistic language. Different from the multiple-layer narrativity of his large-sized paintings, these small-sized ones are simple and pure in theme, with more embodiment of the paintings themselves, as well as the painter’s cognition of himself and understanding of reality. Rich in the themes of the displayed works, the exhibition will highlight their internal relations and build a theatrical dialogue relationship.

This is the third solo exhibition of QI Wenzhang in Platform China, which is curated by WANG Jiang and will last until December 31.