Wang ZhiWu Figurative Paintings
Chinese, b. 1984
Wang ZhiWu is a Chinese pop artist, whose paintings and sculptures celebrate the life of children via whimsically caricatured animals. Although at first glance, Wang’s heroes delight the viewer with humor and innocent charm, deeper themes lurk afoot. With sophisticated, scumbled brushwork and coldpaint patinas, Wang uses color and texture to allude to global land masses, oceans, seas, mountains, weather patterns, skies, and national borders. The overall effect of his paint handling is to create a sense of geopolitical mapmaking, rather than that of just mere ‘flesh and fur!’ On close inspection Wang’s seemingly innocent animal protagonists turn out to be subtle referents of powerexchanges between mogul and maid, bad guy and bodyguard, the haves and havenots even to an array of geeks, nerds, and n'erdowells, seemingly striving to become calm, cool, and collected. Some of his protagonists haplessly go without the fate of the startled? while others fancy a social climb! In contemporary China’s topsyturvy world of instant billionaires, displaced peasants, newlyminted capitalists, sorry slums by luxury condos, and bureaucrats puzzled by the mixed signals of free markets with the old, topdown communist order, it’s no wonder that one of China’s most successful contemporary artists should take on such themes even if they are ‘masked over’ by his sheer love of ‘cute’ animals and the glorious life of children. (It should be noted that Wang is, indeed, and animalrights activist in China an oxymoron, in itself?) Finally, from a recent generation so saturated by animated, popular media and an exploding global art market it’s again no surprise that Wang tackles mixing fineart technique and thematic gravitas with pop characters and ingenuous “cartooning.”
SELECTED MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS
“World Expo,” Shanghai, China
“Guangdong Province FineArt Exhibition,” Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangdong, China
“The ArtisticProcess Show,” Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Shanghai Youth Biennial LIU, Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
4th China International CulturalIndustries Fair, Shenzhen Dubai Museum of Fine Art, United Arab Emirates
SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTORS
Heng Tong Securities, Ltd., Hong Kong, China Shenzhen People’s Hospital
The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Ltd. Hang Seng Bank, Ltd., Hong Kong
The Bank of East Asia, Ltd., Hong Kong
Guangdong Development Bank Company
The Duchess of Kent Hospital for Children, Perth, Western Australia Macau Tourism & Cultural Activities Center
Norwegian International School, Hong Kong
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Artist: Wang ZhiWu
Couple Series, Comic Animals Modern Pop Art, Dog & Cow wedding riding horse
By Wang ZhiWu
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
WANG ZHI WU 王志武
1984 China
Wang Zhi Wu is well-known by personifying animals in his paintings. Animals in Wang’s paintings have cartoon-liked shapes. Their images mix with differe...
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Best Friends Series IV, Comic animal modern pop art painting Pig&Chick, In stock
By Wang ZhiWu
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WANG ZHI WU 王志武
1984 China
Wang Zhi Wu is well-known by personifying animals in his paintings. Animals in Wang’s paintings have cartoon-liked shapes. Their images mix with differe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wang ZhiWu Figurative Paintings
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A Maker, Comic Animal modern pop art painting on Cow Flying Car wings, In Stock
By Wang ZhiWu
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
WANG ZHI WU 王志武
1984 China
Wang Zhi Wu is well-known by personifying animals in his paintings. Animals in Wang’s paintings have cartoon-liked shapes. Their images mix with differe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wang ZhiWu Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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