{"id":1154,"date":"2024-01-31T05:13:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haigallery.com\/newsite\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1154"},"modified":"2024-01-31T05:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:14:22","slug":"wang-zhijie-solo-exhibition-2013","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"http:\/\/www.haigallery.com\/zh\/portfolio-item\/wang-zhijie-solo-exhibition-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wang Zhijie Solo Exhibition 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1154\" class=\"elementor elementor-1154\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e7d2927 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e7d2927\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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.elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Wang Zhijie\n<br><span style=\"color: #000;\">Solo Exhibition 2013<\/span><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0a8ad03 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0a8ad03\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"artist\"><div class=\"artist\"><strong>Wang Zhijie<\/strong><\/div><div class=\"title\"><strong>Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice<\/strong><\/div><div class=\"title\"><em><strong>(That\u2019s What Little Girls Are Made Of)<\/strong><\/em><\/div><div class=\"gap\">\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"address\"><p>Hai Gallery is pleased to announce the first Solo Show in Europe for Contemporary Chinese Artist Wang Zhijie.<\/p><p>Playful yet provocative, cute but curiously complex in questioning perceptions of beauty and attraction, the \u201cLittle Girl\u201d series of paintings by Contemporary Chinese Artist Wang Zhijie are to be exhibited at Hai Gallery, London.<\/p><p>Wang Zhijie\u2019s \u201cLittle Girl\u201d paintings are amusing observations on the antics of young women in China today \u2013 inspired by the artist\u2019s successful career in animation \u2013 yet rendered with a consummate painterly technique to create vibrant images that attract the eye and stimulate a curious, even unsettling, fascination in the viewer.<\/p><p>The artist\u2019s focus on characteristics of conventional beauty \u2013 the girls\u2019 big eyes, rosebud mouths, pouting, glossy lips and too-tiny-noses \u2013 are exaggerated, caricatured to a point that should undermine their appeal, yet seems to intensify it, creating a mesmerizing allure that both attracts and repels us and questions why we find such features so enticing.<\/p><p>The girls\u2019 seductive appeal is complemented by their accessories \u2013 army caps and medals, fashion handbags, necklaces, cigarettes, strapless gowns \u2013 and accentuated by expressive make-up \u2013 eye-liner, mascara, lipstick and eye-shadow \u2013 and yet is presented in such a distorted fashion that it becomes far removed from naturalistic beauty.<\/p><p>While the conformity of the works painted in numerical series suggests the objectification of their subject matter, this notion is upturned by the vividness of the \u201cLittle Girls\u201d depicted and the attitude with which they seem to manipulate the viewer as if it is they who are in control of this artistic process.<\/p><p>This complexity, allied to 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