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Artist’s statement: I try to emphasise three elements in my work: wisdom, knowledge and humour. I also like to tell st

Artist’s statement: I try to emphasise three elements in my work: wisdom, knowledge and humour. I also like to tell stories in my work. Painting should be visually pleasing but should raise questions and inspire thought. Refer also to page 183 Senior Artwise 2. Secret Histories

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Artist’s statement: I try to emphasise three elements in my work: wisdom, knowledge and humour. I also like to tell st

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  1. Artist’s statement: I try to emphasise three elements in my work: wisdom, knowledge and humour. I also like to tell stories in my work. Painting should be visually pleasing but should raise questions and inspire thought. Refer also to page 183 Senior Artwise 2

  2. Secret Histories Acrylic on canvas 2005 130 x 162 cm http://www.redgategallery.com/artists/guan-wei-gallery/gw10

  3. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/71580438/GUAN-WEI Paper War www.acmi.net.au/paperwar.aspx12 Aug 2004 - 32 secThis simple tracking shot along Guan Wei's exquisitely drawn battle scenes, More videos for guan wei landscape » Guan Wei - SHERMAN GALLERIES

  4. GUAN WEI Born 1957, Beijing, China In 1989, three years after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University, Guan Wei came to Australia to take up an artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Art. He was invited to undertake two further residencies: one at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1992), the other at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University (1993).

  5. GUAN WEI ECHO (INSTALLATION VIEW) 2006 photo: Paul Green courtesy the artist and Sherman Galleries, Sydney

  6. ECHO and ECHO (DETAIL) 2005 acrylic on canvas, 42 panels, 273 x 722 cm overall

  7. His work often refers to current social and environmental issues, made more potent by his experience of two vastly differing cultures. Throughout all he "aims for the trifecta of 'wisdom, knowledge and humour' in every painting." [Linda Jaivin, Australian Art Collector, #20]. This irrepressible sense of humour and love for his new country pervades Guan Wei’s new paintings; evident in the placement of the small figure of Ned Kelly [based on Nolan’s famous images] encountering or escaping troopers set in traditional Chinese landscapes.

  8. Dislocation and a life of wandering is now a global problem. However, in Ned Kelly escapes from the troops down the Yangtze River, he is at play, with a Nolan Ned Kelly inserted into a reproduction classical Chinese landscape scroll.

  9. Guan Wei has presented his painting installation Rising Sea Level at the 10th Havana Biennial in Cuba. The Biennial runs from March - April and the theme for 2009 is Integration and Resistance in the Global Age. Rising Sea Level

  10. Guan Wei brings attention to the newly developed perspective that has been re-drawn in a world unsettled by postmodernism, post-colonialism and the loss of orientation that is produced in the computer zone of information super-highways and video games. Guan Wei combines this new sense of space in paintings that reference an Eastern horizontality and the employment of the screen, combined with the follies of symmetry common in Renaissance design, to produce a set of conundrum spaces through which the characters of history prance and flee, hide and seek. Guan Wei, A mysterious Land No.10, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 162 x 130cm (3 panels)

  11. Day after tomorrow No. 3 2007

  12. Day after tomorrow 2007

  13. Buddha’s hand2010

  14. Buddha’s hand2010

  15. Cloud No.42009Bronze statueedition of 539 x 30 x 25cm

  16. Life along the Bian River at the Pure Brightness Festival (Qingming shanghe tujuan)

  17. LOOKING FOR ENEMIES: NO. 4 2004acrylic on canvas, diptych, 142 x 126 cm overall LOOKING FOR ENEMIES: NO. 2 2004 acrylic on canvas, diptych, 142 x 126 cm overall photographer: Paul Green courtesy the artist and Sherman Galleries, Sydney

  18. TARGET 2004 acrylic on canvas, 20 panels, 267 x 563 cm overall photographer: Sue Blackburn courtesy the artist and Sherman Galleries, Sydney

  19. Transcendence2007-2008677 x 267 cmAcrylic on canvas http://arcone.com.au/index.php?navi=Artists&navj=Profile&aid=17&navk=GUAN WEI

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