Shape of Information

Wang Yi’s solo exhibition Shape of Information marks the artist’s second solo exhibition at Keyi Gallery. The exhibition presents more than ten new works by the artist.

The value of art lies in its participation in recording The Times.

We are not encountering a cycle, but an era. In the tide of The Times, we may not be able to clearly grasp the pulse of The Times, but we should believe that new technologies, new inventions, and new energy are weapons to destroy the old order.

I hope to achieve a painting art that belongs to the information age. It is a revolution in visual art that will change the relationship between the real and the virtual in painting.

If a painter wants to achieve his own style, he needs to leave his predecessors by going to them. In the process of translating classic paintings, old movies, and video game models, I seem to be following a good example, but in fact, I am reproducing the process of the result of creating the art of the time, and pursuing the result of creating the art of the time, rather than reproducing the traditional manufacturing process. I use these carefully selected visual images as a blueprint to create a new plastic art that belongs to this information age.

— Wang Yi