王興偉：面相之謎
Wang Xingwei: The Code of Physiognomy
開幕時間：3月21日下午4點
Opening: Thursday, March 21, 4pm
地點：麥勒畫廊798空間（798東街D10）
Venue: Galerie Urs Meile 798（D10, 798 East Street）
展覽將持續至5月12日（周二至周日，11:00-18:30）
The exhibition will be on view until May 12 (Tue-Sun, 11am-6.30pm)
王興偉：瀋陽之夜
Wang Xingwei: Shenyang Night
開幕時間：3月21日下午2點半
Opening: Thursday, March 21, 2.30pm
地點：麥勒畫廊原草場地空間（草場地104號）
Venue: Galerie Urs Meile Caochangdi Space (No. 104 Caochangdi)
展覽將持續至3月31日（周二至周日，11:00-18:30）
The exhibition will be on view until March 31 (Tue-Sun, 11am-6.30pm)
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麥勒畫廊北京部榮幸地宣布我們將於798空間舉辦個展「面相之謎」，展出王興偉自2016年個展後所創作的一系列新作。王興偉的繪畫作品大多源於現實生活的啟發和刺激並富有濃烈的隱喻色彩，其中包括耗費數年時間完成的兩組四聯巨幅畫作——《中午休息》(2017-2019，布面油畫，4x 200 x 240 cm)和《四季》(2016/2017，布面油畫，4x 240 x 200cm)。《中午休息》轉換並深化了藝術家近年來探索的「抗日神劇」系列，該系列曾在其上一次個展「榮與恥」中集中展出。作品再次展現了藝術家對於情節編排和角色扮演的嫻熟駕馭。而在展廳盡頭隔斷的獨立空間呈現的四聯肖像繪畫《四季》由春、夏、秋、冬四部分組成，延續了藝術家對現實的指涉和揶揄。鮮明的繪畫主題、主觀的造型建構以及細緻入微的描繪在畫面上達成了相互平衡。
與此同時，我們還將於麥勒畫廊北京原草場地空間舉辦個展「瀋陽之夜」，展出其具有裡程碑意義的新作《瀋陽之夜》以及與青春理想、浪漫主義等主題相關的幾件作品。該展覽將與2019畫廊周北京同期展出(2019年3月21日-31日)。
王興偉的創作一直以來都出其不意地將看似不相關的元素巧妙地編排在一起，而其天馬行空的想像往往賦予畫面詼諧的趣味。他廣泛運用藝術史內容，挑釁式地對中西方藝術史與經典繪畫進行「改編」，通過對形象的挪用與拼接、文本的引用和變調呈現出個人色彩鮮明又極具震撼的視覺表達。觀者驚喜於其詼諧敘事的同時又不由對藝術家所喚起的，對於頗具時代特徵的集體性符號進行深思。 此次「雙個展」的形式旨在梳理並呈現藝術家的創作軌跡和不斷深化、延展的探尋方向。
(English)
Galerie Urs Meile is honored to announce the opening of The Code of Physiognomy, the solo exhibition by Wang Xingwei (*1969, Shenyang, China) at our gallery space in 798. The exhibition will present the main body of works Wang has painted since his last solo exhibition in 2016. While the principal of plastic art has always been the artist’s emphasis, this new body of works turns its focus to the characteristic and detailed shaping of images and figures. Various portraitures that are loaded with referential symbols and playful metaphors will be presented, which allude to the title of the exhibition. Two significant pieces titled Noon Break (2017–2019, oil on canvas, 4x 200 x 240 cm) and Four Seasons (2016/2017, oil on canvas, 4x 240 x 200 cm), each consisting of four big-scale single panels, will be also included in the show.
At the same time, we are pleased to announce the opening of Shenyang Night, another solo exhibition by Wang Xingwei in our former gallery space in Caochangdi, which now hosts our artist-in-residence program. The exhibition will take place concurrently with the Gallery Weekend Beijing 2019 (March 21–31). The eponymous work, Shenyang Night (2018, oil on canvas, 300 x 500 cm), forms the centerpiece of the show. The common theme of all the other works in the exhibition is the commemoration of the artist’s youth and the works completed between 1990 and 1993 in Shenyang. The bitter sweetness of youthful years, the reminiscence of a glorious past, the incurable romanticism and idealism are embodied in these works.
Wang Xingwei's creations has always been cleverly arranged together with seemingly unrelated elements, and his imagination often gives the picture a witty taste. He extensively appropriates the elements of art history to provocatively "adapt" Chinese and Western art history and classic paintings, and presents his own vivid and powerful visual expression through the appropriation and splicing of images, the citation and transposition of texts. The viewers are pleasantly surprised by the witty narratives and the collective symbols of the times evoked by the artist. The form of the "dual exhibition" aims to sort out and present the artist's creative trajectory and the direction his deepening and expanding practices.
麥勒畫廊 北京
Galerie Urs Meile Beijing
地址：北京市朝陽區酒仙橋路2號798藝術區798東街D10，郵編100015
Add: D10, 798 East Street, 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiu Xianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, 100015 Beijing, China
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開放時間：周二至周日，上午11:00 – 下午6:30
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11am – 6.30pm
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