WANG Yi
Abyssal Sunrise
mixed media on mirror stainless steel

2021
TOKYO TORCH Tokiwabashi Tower
Tokyo

Client: Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.
Curating & Direction: Code-a-Machine
Project members: NAKAHARA Takashi (DENBAK-FANO DESIGN)、TSUNOO Mai
Assistant: SONOBE Tatsuri
Technical Team: HIGURE 17-15 cas
PR: KOIKE Miki（HOW）

Photo: OTA Takumi

Supported by AIKE, Shanghai

  • Art Consulting
  • Curation/Planning
  • Management/Coordination

The paintings of Wang Yi, one of China's notable young artists, are created by carefully applying layers of paint. We can sense glittering light within the subtly shifting series of colors, and the mesmerizing imagery also overlaps with our surrounding cityscape. Wang Yi continually recombines the essential elements of abstract painting-structure, form, color, and materials —to explore the shape of our current society, the development of our cities, and the relationship between history and nature. This new series symbolically represents the structure of our society, in which a city with a seemingly smooth surface is also a collection of various inhabitants.

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WANG Yi

1991 Born in Shanghai, China. Currently lives and works in Shanghai
2016 MA of Oil Painting at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 “Dark Light Bright Night”, AIKE, Shanghai, China
2018 “Geometry Rules All Phenomena: Wang Yi”, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2018 “Inside and Outside: Claude Viallat & Wang Yi”, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 “Candy Boom”, K11, Guangzhou, China
2020 “Painting and Existence: Chinese, Japanese and Korean Abstract Painting Travelling Exhibition”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2018 “Brilliant City”, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, China
2016 “John Moores Painting Prize”, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China