Opening time：3:30Pm,April 11th,2015
Duration: 2015.04.08 -- 2015.04.20
Location: 4th floor exhibition hall of Building No.1, Today Art Museum

  In her own eyes, Wang Jin's works are about love. She is an “observer” and a “participant”, examining and prying into the details, all thanks to her excellence in perception, observation and imagination. To her, painting is something to be treated with discretion, which requires a painter to capture hidden emotions and desires, and understand the differences between human emotions and the reality. There are beautiful hopes, and at the same time, impractical illusions. In her works, she is more willing to tell the others about her life instead of trying to respond to a grand cause that lives up to the artistic traditions. She paints about her own feelings and life. To her, it is perhaps due to a need of “self-reflection” in essence, displaying the feelings which are complex and ambiguous, some even contradictory and inexpressible. That is why she uses “graphology” strokes that leave sparse openness in her works, which brings a sense of calmness against the use of intense colors. The West Lake is where the stories take place, which makes a metaphor of space to some extent. A “theater-like” atmosphere reminds the audience of Antoine Watteau’s fête galante paintings, a French painter whose paintings belonged to Rococo Art. What is beneath all the gracefulness is actually sadness. It seems that the sensual pleasure is not at all real. It is also why her paintings carry a special sense of “poetry”. 

Wei Xiangqi

Wang Jin