WANG Haichuan 王海川

WANG Haichuan (b.1968, Jilin, China) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, 1997. From 2007 to present he lives between Beijing and Chongqing.

 

The selected exhibitions include “The Note of Staying”, Gaodi Gallery, Beijing, China 2010; “Tibetan Paper”, ZdenÄ›k SklenáÅ™ Gallery,  Purage, Czech 2010; “Tongyuanju 7DAYS”, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China2012; “Open Vision” –Exhibition of Contemporary Chines Collection, Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery, Prague, Czech 2009; “Reshaping History of Chinese New Art from 2000 to 2009”, Beijing, China, 2010; “ART HK 10, HongKong, 2010; “Chengdu Biennale -CHANGING VISTAS  CREATIVE DURATION”, Museum of Contemporary Art  Chengdu , Chengdu, China, 2011; “Eurekaaaa !!!3 - A Study on The Way of Seeing”, Himalayan Space Chongqing, China, 2012; “Be Conscious of Yourself “, Suzhou Art Museum, SuZhou, China, 2013; St. Moritz Art Masters 2013, Museum Chesa Planta, Zuozn, Swiss.

 

From 2008, the artist has first portrayed monuments, and then he spread to all kinds of high-class compounds. If we ignore the brush strokes in the picture, we can almost consider these images as architectural paintings. However, the conception of these paintings happens to be in these non-painting elements. These single-colored pictures make things from the real scenes become fake ones. The absence of people in the pictures makes these humanized things lose their “humanities”; they look like the empty and simple decorations on the stage. Those single-colored brush strokes continuously remind us of the fakeness of the beauty and the artist’s attempt to destroy or penetrate it. Wang Haichuan’s works destroy the superficial characters of those beautiful private lives and harmonious society, but his way of doing this is plain. He attempts to demolish the trace of reality and replace it with relics of time.The Project started in 2009 and since then has visually recorded the apartments pending demolition and interviewed residents living inside. Two in-situ interactive activities, i.e. "Copper Cash Manufactory- 16.9M²" and "Copper Cash Manufactory- Journey", were completed; the project initiator sampled and tested physical evidences and witnesses which were legacies of the collectivistic period, and aimed to study psychological responses of individuals during and after a collectivistic period by clarifying relationship between collectivism and individuals, therefore find an artistic form to present the cracks between individuals and State management.