BEING - Wang Jiazeng's Solo Show
 
2009.04.10- 2009.04.22

Opening Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday - Sunday

Venue: 3rd floor exhibition hall of building No.1, Today Art Museum
Organizer: Today Art Museum
Support: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute  

Address: Pingod Community, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Tel: 8610 - 58760600 - 100

At a time with great economic changing, the state factories and minings are at the cross of either surviving or being eliminated. The working class is influenced the most. The confusion, bitterness, helplessness and hopelessness had oppressed and suffocated people. Wang Jiazeng was born in a workers' family and had worked in the factory himself. He has experienced more of the changes that not only on his family but also the whole country.  

工业日记81  Industry Journal 81 - 布面油画 oil on canvas - 480 x 220 cm - 2007

工业日记122  Industry Journal  122 - 布面油画 oil on canvas - 500 x 300 cm - 2008

残楼 Remnant Building - 布面油画 oil on canvas - 140 x 200 cm - 2008

工业日记36  Industry Journal  36 - 布面油画 oil on canvas - 140 x 200 cm - 2006

工业日记13  Industry Journal  13 - 布面油画 oil on canvas - 140 x 200 cm - 2005

工业日记19  Industry Journal  19 - 布面油画 oil on canvas - 140 x 200 cm - 2006

身份之二 Identity 2 -  布面油画 oil on canvas - 150 x 180 cm - 2008

嬉戏之二 Game 2 - 布面油画 oil on canvas - 180 x 220 cm - 2008

Wang Jiazeng revealed a soul-stirring vision of human dissimilation. He makes no exception of which the figures are all uniformed: all in blue and cadre cap. They can be either workers or farmers; neither government official nor merchants whose status are not identified and is only an abstract sign or symbol. Nowadays, Chinese are dressed of all sorts, but, in Wang Jiazeng’s works, people still look like are in 30 years ago, what whom wear has no individual character while all in blue tuinic and trousers. No one would forget that was one of the important marks of China then, therefore, Chinese were called "blue ants" by occidental. Wang Jiazeng's works shocks us and make us trembling that, too, urge us to have a deep self-reflection on our spiritual world and our living status.