Xia xiao wan biography

The following year, he became Art Editor for China Machinery Publishing, leaving in 1984.
Xia Xiaowan is a painter.
(Chinese, born 1959) Xia Xiaowan is a contemporary Chinese painter and sculptor.

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Wu Shaoxiang is one of the most active artists of Chinese contemporary art since the 1980s. He is best known for using all kinds of kinds and dollar bills in his artworks. These iconic pieces are collected by many financial corporations, museums and foundations, and was even entered into the Guiness Book of World Records.

Wu's area of interests veer into the hidden and unseen dangers behind the rapid modernization of Chinese society. Appropriating an "outsider" point of view, Wu uses fables and props that draw upon the collective cultural memory of society to convey his messages through his art. By creating pieces using money, Wu reveals the intimate connection and impact money has human nature and culture. By recreating familiar items and people, Wu recontextualizes how money is thought of, and allows the viewer to interpret his works in a familiar, yet strangely peculiar setting.

Wu holds a sober viewpoint on the materialism prevalent in society today. The evocative and criticism behind his works are a gentle reminder to society as a whole, an

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Xia Xiaowan has been preoccupied for years with the problem of representing three dimensions on a flat surface. For him, the Western solution—with lines of perspective converging on a vanishing point—is powerful but inadequate. After much experimenting, he decided to approach the question from the opposite direction and build flat images into a 3D one. He divides a picture into layers, draws each section in coloured pencil on a sheet of tinted glass, then stacks the sheets one in front of the other. The translucent composite conveys the depth and solidity of a living figure. Man and Woman (2007) not only extends across multiple dimensions, it contains them. What at first seems a single monstrous figure turns out to be two: a pregnant woman and a man, deformed yet recognisably human. Bent and sorrowful, they might almost be Adam and Eve cast out of Eden. As the viewer moves around the painting-sculpture, it seems to move too, adding to the lifelike effect. “When we view a living pe

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