Wang Nanming
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Wang Naming is an independent curator, artist and critic from Shanghai, China. Born in Shanghai in 1962, he initially studied law, but since the late 1980s he has been working as an artist with his 1989-1992 work Word-Ball Combination seen as a hallmark and turning point of his art career. His work has been collected and exhibited in the British Museum (London, UK), Annie Wong Art Foundation (Vancouver, Canada), the National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China) and other international venues.
Although he has a background in art history, he is well known for his research and writing on contemporary art. Because of his bold and incisive style and pragmatic approach, he is considered one of the most influential art critics in Chinese contemporary art; he is also an active advocator of “Avant-garde”, “Post Avant-garde” and “Metavant-garde” art within a Chinese context. As an innovative curator, he constantly pushes the boundaries of contemporary art and defends controversial works of art. Wang’s curatorial concepts are focused transforming art exhibitions into a public forum for social debates and draw on examples from performance art, installation art and photography in Chinese contemporary art to demonstrate an artistic shift from aesthetics to social-politic criticism. His recent work examines how Chinese contemporary art responds to the world and how it contributes its specific perception of Contemporary art within a global context.
Wang Nanming has authored several books including Art Must Die: from Chinese Painting to Modern Ink Painting, Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006; After Concept: Art and Criticism, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006; The Rise of Critical Art: Chinese Problem Situations and Theories of Liberal Society, Alte Brücke Verlag, 2011; Art, System and Legislation: China's International Exchange, Alte Brücke Verlag, 2012; and A Post-colonial Honour: the Chinese-ness of Art and the Chinese identity of Artists, Alte Brücke Verlag, 2012.