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Paint, photos, printing in modern still-lifes
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Still-life painting seems quite dated today, but Wang Yuhong employs photography, printing and brush strokes to create nostalgic still-lifes of bamboos, blue-and-white porcelain, biscuit tins, vintage comic books and other memorabilia.
“I even don’t know what to call these art pieces,” she says.
She has surprised visitors with her latest series on German-made rice paper. She first photographs a cluster of objects, leaving white spaces for folding fans that she later fills in with her brush work.
She prints the photos on German rice paper that is uniform in texture and somewhat rigid. She then illustrates the fans with texts, flowers, birds or scenery.
Her creative idea of blurring the boundaries among different media was praised by Duoyunxuan, an ancient art and antiques dealer which is holding a solo exhibition for her at Duoyun Art Gallery on Xietu Road.
“I always believe what I see rather than other things. I create things that were deeply etched in my memory as I grew,” Wang explains. “I am a proponent of technique, which may go against today’s anti-technique trends. In my view, the dividing line between traditional and contemporary is concept, rather than form or time.”
Trained in classical painting at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou, Wang was known earlier for her realistic depiction in still-lifes. She arranged subjects such as old albums, old books, porcelain, vanity box, small picture frames, rusted oil lamps, aged alarm clocks, dated newspapers and posters.
“For me, these objects are not symbols. It’s about the timelessness of the objects themselves, reverting to their physical texture,” the artist says. “Looking at a still-life is to awaken the eyes of our own soul.”
She now places a collection of objects in front of her camera, as she did with her paintings. The arrangement process itself is gentle and comforting.
“It often takes several hours to arrange these objects,” she says. “A slightly different angle or position brings a different touch.
“They seemed unrelated, but there’s a relationship between things,” she says.
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