Opening time：4:00pm, 2nd Jun.,2013
Duration: 2013.06.03 -- 2013.06.10
Location: 1st, 2nd floor exhibition hall of building 3

A World of Heat and Cold：Art of Wang Wenge and Qiangli is a joint exhibition of two artists: Qiangli and Wang Wenge, both from Panzhihua, a city at the southern tip of Sichuan Province not much known to the outside.
Associated with the city are childhood memories of many people born in the 1960’s and 1970’s about the so-called Third Line Construction, which relocated from all over the country large numbers of workers and engineers and their families to different remote areas in Southwest China. The show is polyphony of past ages and the layered art history of a special type of Chinese city.  While Wang Wenge could almost be seen as a narrator of his native city, Qiangli seems a folk architect from that land. The painting and photographic works presented in the exhibition tells two versions of the same history. One is a personalized script running astray of the main theme of the age with a little sentimentality, and the other history is approximate to the documentation of the artist’s hidden ego – they are not trompe l'oeil realism but rather the representation of the constituting environment where the artists had lived. They articulate nothing but remain vivid. The two types of works are dramatically dissimilar in the ways depicting reality – Cold and Heat in different eyes. But they are both reminiscent of a fervent youth in the same temperature.

Dr. Tang, Keyang

Wang Wenge