Artwork
Distance 2011
Single channel video, 5 minutes
By following the movements of the light spots as a logic and connection between the two synchronised pictorial planes, the artwork questions the distance between reality and illusion; abstraction and realism; the future and the present; the ideal and the truth.
About the Artist
Born 1964, Shandong Province, China
Artist’s CV
Education
1988 – Graduated from the Mural Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1984 – Graduated from the Affiliated Middle School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2007
wangpeng’s photo exhibition, Tra Gallery China, Beijing, China
2005
Designed Meaninglessness, Platform China, Beijing, China
2004
Breath, Performance, Beijing, China
2001
Gate, Performance, MSG, Beijing, China
Ourdesktop.org, Beijing, China
1997
Passing Through, Performance in New York
1996
Inside & Outside, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1995
Three Days, Forbidden City, Beijing, China
Water from the Heaven, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
River, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Rainy Pavilion, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
1994
Form of Reality, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing, China
We Live in Art, Beijing, China
1993
Wall, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
1991
Wang Peng’s Abstract Painting Exhibition, Gallery of The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1984
84′s Performance, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2009
The Same, 01100001 Gallery, Beijing
2007
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate, Liverpool, UK
2004
Is it Art? An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Xi’an, China
2003
Water, Beijing, China
DNA Visual Exhibition, Beijing, China
2002
Moist, MAAP in Beijing, China
The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2001
Sound2, MSG, Beijing, China
2000
Family, Shanghai, China
1998
Inside/Out, P.S.1, New York
Memory, Brooklyn, New York
Open Salvo, White Box Gallery, New York
1995
Open Your Mouth and Close Your Eyes, Beijing, China
Contemporary Art from China, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
1994
Post-October, Beijing, China
1993
Twentieth Century China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1992
Positions 92, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
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