Primo Marella Gallery, Milan is presenting “Lost into a Nurse’s Dream” an exhibition by Chinese artist HE WEI.He Wei is considered among the unique Chinese artists for the style of work that he has developed and he keeps the elements in his work bereft of any cultural references. In his work there is no realism, there’s no pop culture, there aren’t references to their great icons, there’s no ink painting or abstract art referencing the great masters (like Chu The Chun), the figures in his works are not natives, and there is no writing or local cultural referent of any kind. A refined neorealist painting style, predominantly in black and white, in which partial or total reproductions of portraits of famous people from Western culture (John Cage and Woody Allen, just to name a few), divas, or nearly, in poses typical of celebratory and idealized photographs from the Hollywood of the 1940s and 50s taken from real images or products of partial invention, sensual nurses reminiscent of postwar drama, probably (also) with a veiled reference to the work of Richard Prince. Essentially they are the most excellent protagonists of our scientific and humanistic intellectual heritage, which he tries to knit together with a piece of his country’s history that is missing, if not completely absent; a lack that is particularly poignant for artists, but alas, not just for them. It is quoted about the artist that “he is contaminated by a virus that fights against the logic of the ambiguous meaning of beauty.” “Lost into a Nurse’s Dream” depicts the journey that is the development of his study from the beautiful to the ugly, from internal to external, from emotional contradiction to conceptual investigation, from certainty to doubt, from the mystery of beauty to the appearance of masked faces.This exhibition runs through November 10, 2017 at Via Valtellina corner Viale Stelvio, 6620159 Milan – Italy.For details, visit: http://admin.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/primo-marella-gallery/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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