Guo Hongwei (1982, Sichuan) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004 and currently lives and works in Beijing. His practice focus on painting, collage and video. From 2011 to 2016, he established independent art space "Gland" .
Guo Hongwei's paintings cover a wide range of subjects, from natural and historical objects, such as birds and flowers, and ores, to image sources that dominate traffic on short video plat-forms, or the diversity of humans and the world. The artist explores the multiple meanings of the act of "viewing" and the intertextual references of vision and fantasy. By investigating different visual systems and switching between media such as watercolor and oil painting, the artist searches for paradigmatic differences in the order of painting. In collage, video and installation works, Guo Hongwei attempts to create new surface logic and deep emotions by deconstructing and restructuring images, appropriating classical Western contemporary art, and grafting different image and contextual systems.
Guo Hongwei's paintings cover a wide range of subjects, from natural and historical objects, such as birds and flowers, and ores, to image sources that dominate traffic on short video plat-forms, or the diversity of humans and the world. The artist explores the multiple meanings of the act of "viewing" and the intertextual references of vision and fantasy. By investigating different visual systems and switching between media such as watercolor and oil painting, the artist searches for paradigmatic differences in the order of painting. In collage, video and installation works, Guo Hongwei attempts to create new surface logic and deep emotions by deconstructing and restructuring images, appropriating classical Western contemporary art, and grafting different image and contextual systems.
