Wang Chunli's The Experience of Reading Vision: Bamboo No. 10 uses a rich turquoise palette to create an evocative image from the silhouette of foliage. Blues, whites, and forest greens are juxtaposed against each other to create the impression of a lush forest, but the image is also abstract enough to be unspecific, suggesting both floral and textile patterns. Wang Chunli uses a simple palette to great effect, layering washes of paint and tone to create depth, and conflating mediums by mixing the effects of photographic source materials with the physicality of paint.

A word from The Artist

The logicality and visual realism of the image itself have always held my concern. Many images we see, through continuous replication, have been losing such realistic effects, till the comprehensibility of the original image has eventually faded or been hidden.

Through superimposition of the image with the camera and computer monitor, a drastic visual gap has been identified between the original image and the processed one. To capture such visual contrast and have it presented via paintings on canvas or the profiles of piled up paper sheets mark the main visual characteristic of my works.

Painting is a means for me to retrospect and reconstruct the image that has been dissimilated by camera and computer monitor. The final images look like visions diluted through the course of time, which can only be interpreted and comprehended by the trail of blurry reality and a full imagination, while interestingly enough, such images that strongly embody the trace of time, bears no relevance with time itself, and is entirely compounded by a mechanical reproduction.