Then I divide the image spatially, according to my own understanding of its shape and volume.
How do you actually put the paintings together? What’s the process?įirst, I create a sketch on paper of the image I want to paint. Can painting be painted in a totally space way? I began to practice associating painting with the theory of CT (CAT) scans in medical technology. Therefore, that made me crazy about the problem. I recognised that painting can never surpass its flat quality in a real space.
I had many problems expressing space in flat paintings. The exhibition hall is really huge, upright and foursquare. I showed my sketch on paper works, nearly two hundred pieces. I had a solo exhibition in Beijing, at Today Art Museum. When did you start working with sheets of glass in 3D? And despite the dark look of his CAT scan-inspired 3D paintings – that arrested the blogging art world a few months back – Xiaowan describes his work optimistically, as explorations of “human being humanity” (sic)… A master, as they call them waxy candles, notebooks full of sketches, engaging debates, lectures and reflections on the pros and cons of oil painting… the whole nine yards. A blue-blooded, highly-educated, born-in-1959, highbrow Chinese painter completely submerged in the field. When I ask about his latest series, a haunting collection of 3D paintings on layered sheets of glass, he sounds like Descartes, slipping into a trance-like meditation on his quest for three dimensional space.
When I ask Beijing painter Xia Xiaowan to list a few of his favourite artists, he replies, simply, “Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci”.
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