Jiajia Wang

Born 1985, China

Lives and works in Beijing and London

Born in Beijing, Jiajia Wang received his BA Honors degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2008. Like many of his generation, Wang was eclipsed with the popularisation of television, the advent of the Internet, and the ubiquity of pop culture. Building upon the artist’s breakthrough “Adventure” series from 2016, works combine digital collage, action painting and silkscreen printing in a confident, magnificent display. Wang’s paintings seem to be full of abstract brushstrokes and heavy pigments, but each stroke does not lack in thinking. Un- like Western paintings, which starts from sketching then to colour, Wang’s painting training began with drawing lines and imitating master’s work. Expressing more of a traditional concept in a new and contemporary way is one of the core creative thinking of the artist’s creation.

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