Paper

50 x 50 x 10 cm. 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 3 7/8 in.

Exhibited：
XU Gallery， Shanghai， China， What Makes Us Who We Are， 25 Febuary - 31 March， 2017.

Wu Wei has been constantly focusing on the form exchange of books， animals and inner strength. Later， books transformed to structured papers. The shape looks like style of Felix Gonzalez-Tores has created before. The concept of “animals” are fused into cut-out and colored papers that appeared to be a “untouchable mysterious” feeling to audience. He tried to create his artworks without adding too much emotion and stereotypes， giving a more straight-forward experience to the viewers. After graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts， Wu Wei started to discover the connection between different textures and feelings of human beings. He developed his artistic style based on that. He connected his artworks with his past memories， and extend his art beyond this connection. While his creative style received compliments from expertise and researchers， his unique artworks have also collected by Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts， Today Museum and many premium art Institutions. The audience could feel the inner strength under his artwork that appears to be the “power of silence”.
Curator Zhu Zhu believes that Wu Wei is trying to have a conversation with the post-modern art in China today. While absorbing the traditional Chinese elements in his art， Wu Wei is also seeking a unified ideology in universe within his art.
Pelage-6 of this spring season is a work that the artist created in 2016. The color of bright yellow looks like a warning sign from far away. The pelage-like textures crossed over each other on top of the plate， divide to different streams. This is a texture that the artist created by paper. The artist develops his artwork from original sensibility of human beings， while adding a contemporary element to it. Wu Wei’s art is created based on his own life and art experience. He chooses random textures such as pelage that rarely noticed by people， and uses paper to imitate its feeling. From this arrangement he leads up his art to a destination in people’s mind of unspoken thoughts and beyond.

Price estimate:
HKD： 25,000 - 35,000
USD： 3,200 - 4,500

Auction Result:
HKD: 29,500