Wang Xingwei: untitled (Riding a Leather Suitcase), oil on canvas, 135 x 163 cm, 2006

LUCERNE.- In Chinese traditional literature, quite often poems were simply named after the first of a stream of emotional images evoked by the first line of the text. Similarly, a specific work by Shanghai-based painter Wang Xingwei lends the title to the show Wang Xingwei - Large Rowboat at Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne. Although not the earliest of the exhibited paintings, Large Rowboat (2006) is the first of Wang's most recent works that marks a further technical and conceptual turning point in the artist’s chameleonic production.
At a first sight Wang Xingwei could be taken for anyone: he could be Ingres, Kandinsky, Duchamp, de Lempicka, just to quote some names; he could as well be a surrealist, a photorealist, an illustrator, or even an art forger. Wang Xingwei exploits different cultural references and incisively combines them with an outstanding ability to exploit diverse pictorial techniques to which he resorts ad hoc when shrewdly sifting through the history of art. As painter Xie Nanxing says of him: Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20374

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