麦勒画廊北京部荣幸地宣布我们将推出艺术家王兴伟（1969年生于沈阳）的最新个展“恋爱砖家”。本次展览将呈现王兴伟近年来的最新主题创作，展览特邀田军提供展览设计，极简的展陈更彰显出作品的轻松、明快和炽热。展览延续了艺术家一贯以来对于场景的娴熟编排，以及运用替换、夸张、引用、指代、双关等手法进行的持续而深入的探索。
Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is pleased to announce the latest solo exhibition of Wang Xingwei (b. 1969, Shenyang), titled Love Expert. This exhibition showcases Wang Xingwei’s thematic creations in recent years, coupled with a minimalist display that aims to emphasize the nonchalance, playfulness, and fervor that populate his works. We specially invite Tian Jun to design the exhibition. The works presented here continue the artist’s signature compositional dexterity, as well as his relentless and extensive explorations of techniques including substitution, exaggeration, quotation, reference, and wordplay.
展览以“度假”系列开篇，以明媚的海岛为背景，勾勒出疫情期间艺术家对于旅行和假期的美好遐想。艺术家因其对经典形象的戏仿与挪用，游戏于精英艺术与大众文化之间。
The exhibition begins with the vacation series, set against the backdrop of a sun-drenched tropical island, which evokes the artist’s yearning for oversea vacations and respites during the pandemic. By parodying and appropriating familiar images, the artist effortlessly tiptoes between high art and popular culture.
王兴伟，《马尔代夫》，2021，布面油画，240 x 300 cm
Wang Xingwei, Maldives, 2021, oil on canvas, 240 x 300 cm
恋爱与婚姻是此次展览中多幅作品的共同主题，以漫画为形式语言，艺术家为西方经典抑或是日常情景中的爱情故事赋予了其特有的幽默与戏剧性。求爱这一主题横跨2006年至2022年，一如艺术家对于反复描绘相似主题的执迷，展览中的“划船”系列可以窥见艺术家对于艺术创作的极致推敲与探究。
Love and marriage are the overarching themes that string together many of the works in this exhibition. Incorporating comic strips as the formal language, the artist bestows a unique sense of humor on these love stories, whether situated in Western classics or day-to-day scenarios. While the subject of courtship spans his works from 2006 to 2022—much like the artist’s obsession with depicting the same subject incessantly, one can catch a glimpse of the artist’s extreme scrutiny towards his creative process through the Rowboat series in the exhibition.
王兴伟游刃有余地在“主题绘画”创作的实践路径上笃定前行。在延续对个人生活体验和日常性的关注的同时，艺术家以荒诞、戏谑的手法将个体感受与时代记忆融为一体，以其古怪而机智的感知力为我们习以为常的日常注入迷人的超现实感，与此同时，也不动声色地将个人与族群、历史与当下进行转化与融合。
Wang Xingwei’s practice has always centered around his “thematic paintings” throughout his career. While paying attention to personal experience and mundanity, the artist integrates individual feelings with the collective memory of our time through an absurd, mischievous altitude, injecting an alluring surreality into an everyday life that one is accustomed to with his quirky and witty perception. On the other hand, his works harmoniously transform and fuse the individual with the community, the history with the present.
王兴伟
Wang Xingwei
王兴伟，1969年生于沈阳，现居住和工作于北京。王兴伟的作品在国内外广泛展出，近期个展包括：在上海当代艺术博物馆举办的个展“王兴伟在上海2002–2008”（2022），在麦勒画廊举办的双个展“面相之谜”和“沈阳之夜”（2019），由麦勒画廊主办、站台中国当代艺术机构协办的“荣与耻”（2016）；在北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心举办的大型个展“王兴伟”（2013）；2011年及2012年分别在麦勒画廊北京部和卢森部举办的同名个展“王兴伟”；2007年在麦勒画廊北京举办的个展“王兴伟——大划船”等。重要群展包括：“缓步徐行：龙美术馆十周年特展”，龙美术馆西岸馆，上海(2023)；“恐怖谷”，高古轩，香港（2023）；“M+ 希克藏品：从大革命到全球化”，M+ 视觉文化博物馆，香港（2021）；“绝地通天”，上海chi k11美术馆，上海（2020）；“中国私语 Chinese Whispers - Recent Art from the Sigg Collection”，MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst，奥地利维也纳（2019）；“拔起头发飞翔——新世纪当代艺术基金会联合创始人王兵&薛冰收藏展暨北京空间揭幕展”，新世纪当代艺术基金会，北京（2018）；“1989后的艺术与中国：世界剧场”，古根海姆美术馆，西班牙毕尔巴鄂（2018）；“M+希克藏品：中国当代艺术四十年”，ArtisTree，香港 (2016)；“中国私语”，伯尔尼美术馆和保罗·克利艺术中心，瑞士伯尔尼（2016）；“ 杜尚与/或/在中国 ” ，尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京 (2013）； “事物状态— —中比当代艺术交流展”，中国美术馆，北京（2010）；“麻将：中国当代艺术希克收藏展”，汉堡美术馆，德国汉堡（2006）；首届广州当代艺术三年展，广东美术馆，广州（2002）；第四届法国里昂当代艺术双年展，法国里昂（1997）等。
Wang Xingwei was born in 1969 in Shenyang, and currently lives and works in Beijing. He has been widely exhibited in China and abroad. Recent solo shows include: Wang Xingwei in Shanghai 2002 – 2008, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2022); dual solo exhibitions The Code of Physiognomy and Shenyang Night held respectively at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing’s 798 space and Caochangdi Space (2019); Honor and Disgrace, Organized by Galerie Urs Meile, and supported by Platform China (2016); the large retrospective Wang Xingwei, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2013); Wang Xingwei, held at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing in 2011 and Lucerne in 2012; and Wang Xingwei – Large Rowboat, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China (2007). Group shows include: A Leisurely Stroll – The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China (2023);Uncanny Valley, Gagosian, Hong Kong, China (2023); M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China (2021); Forget the Horizon, chi K11 art museum (Shanghai), Shanghai, China (2020); Chinese Whispers 中国私语 – Recent Art from the Sigg Collection, MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria (2019); Force as Fulcrum – Selected works from the collection of Wang Bing & Xue Bing, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China (2018); Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Museum Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (2018); M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China (2016); Chinese Whispers, Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland (2016); DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2013); The State of Things – Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (2010); Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (2006); The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2002); 4th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (1997).
艺术家肖像摄影：柴利增
artist portrait courtesy Chai Lizeng
