[Art Gallery Tour 30] Walk into WANG ZHONGJIE’s show | River Valley of Love @Tang Contemporary Art

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Life, death, their mutual bond, and the human effort to interpret them are the main recurring themes in the works of Wang Zhongjie. Personal growth, as well as the development of a deeper awareness and an inner freedom by way of great suffering, have forged a language capable of properly expressing the changes undergoing the painter’s soul, adapting to his ever-increasing maturity.
The works dating back to the first decade of the century swept us over with their power and innovative qualities; we were struck by the very unusual choices in colors and subjects, utterly different from the mainstream Chinese art world of the time. They were “figurative” paintings, alternating dark tones and strong shades, always juxtaposed in unexpected ways. Those works could not leave one indifferent, able as they were to strike a chord in the viewers’ rational as well as emotional sides.
As a self-taught painter, Wang Zhongjie has been able to enjoy greater expressive freedom than his academy-trained peers, his art not being compromised by externally imposed rules and restrictions. An extensive knowledge of art history tied with his extreme sensitivity has driven him to experiment ceaselessly with the endless possibilities of the pictorial medium, processed from an utterly personal perspective that steadfastly ignores any outside pressure.
Wang Zhongjie’s intimate, peculiar relationship with painting-something akin to hand-to-hand combat, where every stroke is the result of a deeply felt inner experience-later brings him to simplify the appearance of his paintings even further, by suspending the color range into polychrome frames surrounding and defining an internal “void”. The latter is pure light, expressed with a vibrant quality that relates to a deeper reality, something before and beyond the individual exterior shapes we can perceive. These works, repeated and perfected by the artist for about a decade, hint at life energy in its primeval state.
December 2, 2023 - January 16, 2024
Artist：WANG ZHONGJIE
b. 1972, Henan Province, China
Currently lives and works in Henan, China
Wang Zhongjie’s solo exhibitions include: “Divine Comedy” (Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2022); “Out of Nothing and Nowhere: Wang Zhongjie” (Gallery MC, Shenzhen, 2022); “2016-9-28~2019-2-24: Wang Zhongjie,” (Magician Space, Beijing, 2019); “Not any Where” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisson, 2018); “Dark Clouds Blue Sky” (Spazio Kn, Trento, 2017); “Wang Zhongjie” (Magician Space, Beijing, 2016); “In The Need of Light,” (Moart Space, Zheng Zhou, 2016); “Dark Clouds Blue Sky” (Ex-chiesetta del Redentore, Vigolo Vattaro (TN), 2014); “Stalker and His Shadow” (Magician Space, Beijing, 2012); “Dark Clouds Blue Sky” (Isolo 17, Verona, 2012); “Dark Clouds Blue Sky” (Baraccano, Bologna, 2012), and more.
His works have also been exhibited at Primae Noctis in Lugano, Switzerland, Bologna Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, Massimo De Carlo in Hong Kong, Art Basel Hong Kong, Beijing Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Henan Art Museum, Henan Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, Zhengzhou Art Museum, Yian Gallery, and Lindart Center, among others.