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As a title, “Romantic Language” first appeared in WU Di’s work in 2014: she made use of printed matters, acrylic paints, pencil, mark pen to combine images of different textures together with various texts. The most remarkable among which is a pair of arms lying in a disordered time and space, connected by a curve between finger tips, indicating a sense of speed of the movement.
In 2006, the forth year after graduating from China Academy of Fine Arts, WU Di became a professional artist. Emphasizing on independency, her early works were rebellious, full of bloody, filthy and scattered elements that would cause discomfort, and her works were very often related to gothic religion or the ultimate proposition of death. In 2012, WU Di, together with LIU Bin and BAI Moti, started a fashion label named “BLACK BRIDGE” (black bridge used to be the largest cluster for artists in urban-rural intersection area of Beijing and was gradually cleared away by the government in 2017). They “transformed” the rich image resources from classical European art and applied them to contemporary vintage designs, and their products immediately won market acceptance. In the aspect of personal artistic creation, WU Di’s cynicism became subtle in recent years, or integrated with a strong sense of critical thinking. The “shout of youth” was replaced by some chattery ambiguity and sarcasm without swearwords, in the mean time, more exhibition experiences make her study of multi-media such as paintings, space and installations more in-depth. During the end of 2018, WU Di is once again indulged in “romantic language”, and created a set of works centering on unidentifiable “texts”. She paints and transforms the texts in order to deprive the signifying function of the symbols in her works, and places her hope on the audience who can be mentally connected. Thus the “Romantic Language” needs to be seen not to be read. “Sunset comes, but never the same” is a quote that often used by WU Di in her interviews and self-statements, whereas in this exhibition, she names the only space artwork after this quote — an exhibition space which is surrounded by tangerine glasses.
Wu Di
1979 Born in Beijing
2002 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Mural Painting Department
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Displacement, Wu Di, 166 Art Space, Shanghai, China
2020 Little Sweet Loop, Wu Di, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China 2019 Symmetry, Wu Di, 166 Art Space, Shanghai, China
2019 Wu Di, OMEN, OCAT, Xi an, China
2019 Romantic Language, Wu Di, SSSSTART, Shanghai, China 2017 Nine, C-Space+Local, Beijing, China
2015 From Subway to Seaside, Space Local, Beijing, China
2013 BABY, DON’T CRY, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 AMEISE, AMEISE, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2021 Tangle of Revolution and Political Soul, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China 2020 A Composite Leviathan, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, U.S
2019 A Composite Leviathan, Luhring Augustine, New York, U.S
2018 “The Wind in The Willows”, C-Space+Local, Beijing, China
2017 “Turning a Deaf Ear”, C-Space+Local, Beijing, China
2017 Collage, the poker player, Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China 2016 The third CAFAM Biennial, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China
1 Apartment for 2 Woman 4 Men, Space Local, Beijing, China
OVERPOP, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China
Her, International Female Artist Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2015 Space Local Opening Show, Space Local, Beijing, China
It is Said that Everything was lovely, Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China
SOVRAPPOSIZIONI DI IMMAGINI, Casa dei Carraresi Museum, Italy
Dawn – New Art from China, Zhong Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 Tomorrow’s Party, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Present-ing Recital Louder than Paint, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2013 Some Like It Hot, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2012 Daily of Concept: A Practice of Life — The Fifth Shanghai Duolun Youth Art Exhibition,
Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Let’s one — artist + star the 3rd Portrait Exhibition, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Dawn – New Art from China, Zhong Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 Super-Organism CAFAM Biennale, CAFA, Beijing, China
Aspects of the Other – Italy in the Eyes of Chinese Artists, Italy-China Touring Exhibition
2010 Fat Art 2010, Sanlitun Village, Beijing, China
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009 Constellations – Beijing 798 Biennale, 706 Art Space, Beijing, China
2008 Future Sky – Chinese Contemporary Young Artists Nomination Exhibition, Today Art
Museum, Beijing, China
The Third A+A, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2007 Jin Contemporary Art Exhibition, Capital Normal University of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The Second A+A, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts/Sichuan University Art
Museum/Chongqing Art Museum, Beijing/Si Chuang / Chong Qing / China 2006 Greater than Beijing, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
From Beijing, Rebin Academy of Fine Arts, Russia
Public Collection: CAFA Museum, Minsheng Museum, Yuz Museum, Long Museum, Start Museum
