NA WEI (CHINA, B. 1982)

In The Red Tide Landscape (Lot 319), Na Wei has advocated with the series a set of stylistic advances, conceived in the adaptation of traditional silk scroll tableaus, rendered with a painterly style marked by his own idiom. Through the act of mending and reconstructing the features derived from traditional and contemporary art, the artist is able to attain a deliberate "Aesthetics of Unity"; the Realist and Minimalist characteristics hereof, verged on the regards of the freehand brushwork. Between painted scenes, the alluring depth perception is suggested by an intimate composition.

The work marvels to be the correlative to his concordant aesthetics; its complex, shifting elements overlay with an acute sense for the historical moment, that is, a composite reality of cultural codes produced by class ideology in China today. His work refers to the indescribability of a culture, one generated by the negations of Capitalism and Socialist ideals, where contradictions coexist in harmony; the immense process of social change, has brought about the ambivalence between modern culture and classical resurgences.