Wang Du 2008-01-18
Borges Libreria Institute for Contemporary Art, Guangzhou
“The Reading Fever of 1985 and 1986 served to form the individual values of artists and to elevate their character. This is because it started with thoughts and ideas, and not simply with social confrontation. We were searching for explanations and answers and for an ability to dialogue with society. We wanted to find ways to explain and clarify our existence and to develop the ability to think independently. That was the most meaningful thing that happened then.”
Biography:
Wang Du (b. 1956, Wuhan) is a Paris-based artist and exhibits widely.
Wang began his art studies at the Department of Sculpture in the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) in 1981. In 1986, he helped establish the Southern Artists Salon, in which Huang Xiaopeng, Chen Shaoxiong and Lin Yilin, among others, were also active members. They co-organized a showing of their work at the first ‘Experimental Show of the Southern Artists Salon’ at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou.
Since moving to Paris in 1990, his work has been featured in many international exhibitions such as the 48th Venice Biennale’s French Pavilion (1999), the Taipei Biennial: The Sky is the Limit (2000), the exhibition ‘Contemporary Chinese Art in 2000: Time of Reviving’ (Chengdu, China, 2000) and the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007).
