Publication Date: 2013

Publisher: World Book Publishing, Post Wave Publishing Consulting

Binding: Paperback, 191 pages

Language: Chinese and English

ISBN: 9787510061219

Wang Xingwei was published in conjunction with the artist’s first large-scale retrospective exhibition, held at UCCA in Beijing in 2013.In the two decades of his mature output, Wang Xingwei has created an artistic universe all his own, where references collide, characters recur, and styles proliferate, all articulated in a deliciously skillful range of styles. In this catalogue, the artist’s most comprehensive monograph to date, 109 color plates are non-chronologically featured in three major sections based on the relationship of the painter or viewer to the figure depicted: rear views, profiles, and frontal views. Accompanying texts by art scholars, curators, and critics Raphael Gygax, Zhang Li, and Nataline Colonnello, in addition to a foreword by UCCA director Philip Tinari, make this an essential document of one of China’s most intriguing painters.