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Wu Jidi
Country where you live:
- China
City where you live:
- Shanghai
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Statement :
The source of my work creation is to observe the subconscious and psychological emotional changes behind the crowd activities and limbs of different identities and groups in the current society.
Body language is a silent language. Through a person's gestures, body movements, we can learn about his personality, ideology, emotional changes and so on. Although trivial and obvious, it is often more authentic than sound language that is good at "disguising". When in different situations, every gesture and action can clearly convey a richer message than words, even if emotions are controlled by reason.
Through figurative painting, I "fictionalize" the real attributes of the characters I want to express, and then integrate them into the fictional space I constructed to discuss again the "real role" of each person in the private state. With the proliferation of the era of personal we-media, people on the screen are in a state of role playing, and in reality, people also separate themselves from their work and private lives. Often in the sketch stage, I will outline the series and echo of body movements to open the beginning of a new work. Secondly, my work is also constantly experimenting with the intricate relationship between spatial assumptions, displacements and fictional human assumptions (such as the intervention of geometric figures in space). In recent years, I have tried to break the restrictions of traditional painting by using alien canvases. In the performance of materials, the combination of high saturation resin feeling of acrylic materials and traditional oil painting materials can better convey the visual presentation between reality and fiction in my works.
Anthropological theater-Theater performance
300*170 cm Acrylic & Oil painting
Work Credit:
myself
Anthropological theater-No faith
236*108cm Acrylic & Oil painting
Work Credit:
myself
Anthropological theater-Gluttony of night
Top side 60cm, bottom side 110cm, height 186cm Acrylic & Oil painting
Work Credit:
myself
Anthropological theater-Carnival
Top side 60cm, bottom side 110cm, height 186cm Acrylic & Oil painting
Work Credit:
myself
Bio:
Born in Shanghai, China in 1985, graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University in 2008, and now lives in Shanghai.
In 2015, Portrait of The Trimmed was shortlisted for the 2015 Primio Combat Prize in Italy, and several works were shortlisted for the Luxembourg Art Prize from 2019 to 2022
In 2022, "Gluttony of Night" and "Carnival" were shortlisted for the 2nd Edition ART EMPIRE AWARD 2022 in Germany and Visual Art Open 2022 UK & International Emerging Artist Awards.
United States New York City |
Canada Nanaimo |
Germany Berlin |
USA Boulder |
Italy Milano |