Ni Jun
The 2nd GDMoA Annual Artist Academic Nomination Exhibition

Guangdong Museum of Art

Ni Jun was nominated as an artist by the Guangdong Museum of Art in the "Second GDMoA Annual Artist Academic Nomination Exhibition".

At the second GDMoA Annual Artist Academic Nomination Exhibition, artist Ni Jun presented his latest masterpiece. The oil paintings and works on paper select and depict flowers, still lifes, landscapes, and various everyday things, which are common painting motifs in art history. While chewing on the existence of tradition and clarifying identity, Ni Jun's personalized treatment of "objects" is entangled with narrative and textuality, always conveying his extensive care and profound thinking about the world, and embodying a sense of history. , philosophical cultural posture. Ni Jun's paintings establish an aesthetic dimension that belongs to contemporary life, and even convey his fascination with the painting itself in the repetition of motifs. “Through the connection with other desires, life strives to preserve and enhance itself.” Claire Colebrook’s introduction to Deleuze’s words is suitable for observing and understanding Ni Jun’s recent oil paintings.

——Fan Lin

Wu Jian'an

The 2nd GDMoA Annual Artist Academic Nomination Exhibition

Guangdong Museum of Art

Wu Jian'an was nominated as an artist by the Guangdong Museum of Art in the "Second GDMoA Annual Artist Academic Nomination Exhibition".

As a new chapter that integrates ink on paper with paper-cut collage, personal creation and social participation, the "Five Hundred Brushstrokes" series has become one of Wu Jian'an's most watched artistic creation projects in recent years. The works are like abstract ink, color ink paintings, or gestural paintings, with long lines, folds, ripples, arcs, and all kinds of indescribable splash trajectories and scratch marks swimming in the painting. They compete for and share the same paper space, forming an energy field in which various visual orders intertwine.

Wu Jian'an

Crossing borders: possibilities and repercussions

Yuz Museum

Wu Jian'an's "Infinite Painting" series of works are on display at the Yuz Museum's "Crossing Boundaries: Possibilities and Echoes."

"A Butterfly on the Spider's Face", as one of the representative creations of "Infinity Painting", is another in-depth exploration of "part and whole" by the artist based on the research of the "Five Hundred Strokes" series. The creation process of this series is complicated: first, "line drawing" is used to outline the overall image of the painting, and then it is broken into targeted pieces to obtain the smallest unit in the painting, one stroke at a time. Each brushstroke is individually described, transforming from an abstract line segment into an independent graphic or even image. Finally, the artist places it back into its original position as a whole, creating a new image and visual experience. In the work, specific images from the past appear and disappear, creating obstacles for the audience to identify the images, while also bringing fun. The broken, inorganic and unstructured brushstrokes are separated from the whole, have no beginning and no end, and can be infinitely expanded. The picture has completed the reconstruction from "tangible" to "invisible", and then to "tangible within the invisible". Becomes "Infinite Painting".

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