Wang Xiaosong

Wang Xiaosong graduated from the Central Academy of Arts & Design (Now Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University), majoring in Book Design and Meisterschüler from Berlin University of the Arts. He is currently a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor of the School of Art and Archaeology in Zhejiang University, member of the National Design Professional Degree Graduate Education Guidance Committee, and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art and Design in Zhejiang University.

As an Artist, his works have been exhibited at the Shandong Biennale , Chengdu Biennale, Wuhan Biennale, NordArt2022 in Germany, and the touring exhibition  Ausbick-Die Landschaft Auf Der Brucke Ausstellung von Werken chinesischer Künstler in Deutschland.

His solo exhibitions have been held at the Medici Riccardi Palace in Italy, the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz and the Kunsthalle St. Anna, Lübeck in Germany.

As a Curator, he has curaed the Atlas: Harmony in Diversity —Pavilion of the P.R. China of the 60th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, the Touring Exhibition Compilation of Classics In The Flourishing Age—A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings in National Museum of China etc..

Credit：Wang Xiaosong

Melancholy and Madness. Mixed Material. 190x290x50cm. 2019
In Wang's works, we can capture the order and aesthetic value of painting and grasp the creative expression. He absorbed elements from classical art, and emphasized order, symmetry and rhythm through highlighting visual entanglement, conflict and the harmonious unity of opposites. Wang Xiaosong believes that a good painting can evoke tactility, sense of embrace and spiritual shock, prompting us to interpret the cultural connotation contained within from a new perspective. He has emphasized many times that multi-dimensional painting is a new exploration of curved space that cannot be expressed on a flat surface. This is an inverse expression of the points, lines, planes and their corresponding axioms of Euclidean geometry in curved space. Through spatial changes in materials, touch, direction, light and shade, color, proportion, texture and other factors, the dynamics and plasticity of painting are demonstrated. In Wang Xiaosong's works, on the one hand, he pursues the ultimate aesthetic principles, which he has always advocated and insisted on; on the other hand, we can see that Wang's paintings are dual-sided and multi-faceted, presenting contradictory entanglement and criticality. This complex visual interactivity constitutes Wang Xiaosong's unique artistic style.
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