WANG YIN 2021
Curator: Catherine David
Organizer: Beijing 798 Creative Industry Investment Co., LTD.
Co-organizer: Vitamin Creative Space
Exhibition Designer: Tian Jun
Exhibition Date: April 23 – June 5, 2021
Venue: A07 Building, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Daily Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30am to 5:30pm, closed on Monday
The exhibition Wang Yin 2021 reflects on and communicates Wang Yin’s recent painting practices (2018-2021). The subjects of Wang Yin’s paintings remain anonymous people, anonymous places. And the degree of namelessness seems to correspond to our original state in the world, a time in which every hand gesture and every movement of a limb possesses profound significance. From this starting point, the texture of Wang Yin’s paintings gives a hint of a method of gently touching the world that is both sensory and emotional. The painting’s natural, fecund light produces an effect of body warmth, enhanced by the particular temperature that the painting seems to emit as an actual object. As the faint light of the painting breathes, it endlessly expands our perceptions.
About the Artist
Born in 1964 in Ji’nan, Shandong Province, Wang Yin grew up in Qingdao. He graduated from the Department of Stage Design, The Central Academy of Drama, Beijing in 1988. He lives and works in Beijing.
About the Curator
Catherine David is deputy director of the Musée national d’art moderne (MNAM) – Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where she has spearheaded an internationally diverse program. From 1982 to 1990, David was curator at the MNAM and from 1990 to 1994 at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. From 1994 to 1997, David served as artistic director for documenta X in Kassel, Germany (1997).