About

Guo Hongwei (born 1982) is a

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ist based in Beijing. Guo graduated from the

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Department of

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in 2004. After graduation, he created a style of painting based on old photographs of the artist himself and his family. To create blurry reproductions of the original images, Guo Hongwei would dilute oil paint with turpentine. These works were later exhibited together at ''Dissolving Memories'', his first solo exhibition at Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2007. Guo Hongwei is known for his similarly unique application of watercolour: in ‘Chiaroscuro’ series (2009), which is also based on old photographs, the artist painted with watercolour on wet paper to create hazy and ambiguous forms. In 2009, Guo Hongwei began to use varnish instead of turpentine to thin oil paint. Resulting paintings show that the paint has dried with crystallised edges. His subject matter also started to expand, moving away from old photographs to include natural specimens—botanical, animal, mineral—precisely replicated in watercolour. In recent works, Guo has ventured into

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and started to experiment with new dimensions in

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within a given flat surface. "From the physical perspective, Guo's practice neither bolsters nor weakens the informational capacity of the 2D print medium— he simply records it."''Sun, Dongdong, "Guo Hongwei: Editing."'' LEAP''. Trans. Dominik Salter Dvorak. LEAP, 19 July 2013. Web. 21 August 2013. .''

Exhibitions

Guo has exhibited at a number of venues. In 2013, he appeared at UCCA in the group exhibition ON , OFF:

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Young Artists in Concept and Practice. His works were also shown at Shanghai Zendai,

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(2007 and 2006), Today ArtMuseum (2007), and

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(2012).

Selected solo exhibitions

● ''Pareidolia'', Chambers Fine Art, New York (2020) ● ''Lustrous and Dazzling'', Gallery 100, Taipei (2015) ● ''Miss Oyu'', Frieze New York (2014)

Selected group exhibitions

● ''Between Past and Futures: SGA Collection Exhibition,'' Shanghai Gallery of Art (2018) ● Yebisu International Festival for Arts & Alternative Visions, Tokyo (2016) ● ''My Generation: Young Chinese Artist'', Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hongwei, Guo Chinese contemporary artists 1982 births Living people