Zhu-Wei

The App contains photographs of 66 selected Zhu Wei’s artworks since 1993, including those that have been shown for many times on international exhibitions and those been collected by notable artistic organizations and collectors.

The App also contains reviews and interview articles from four world-famous critics and curators, in which Zhu has made a vivid depiction of his artistic experience as well as featured interpretation of his own artistic creation and concept.

The App presents photographs of Zhu including Zhu in life, working at studio, and at exhibition sites.

The App also contains Zhu’s resume and video;

Zhu Wei's Artworks Show:
- The subject matters of all Zhu’s works are realistic ones that criticize the reality. He did what the intellectuals should do incidentally with the passion of youth.
- Fan Kuan in the Song Dynasty, Shi Tao and Badashanren in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty have placed great influence on him. They are much like his friends around him, his frames of reference, and objects that he wants to challenge and surpass.
- The strong sense of contemporary feature and consciousness of times emerging from Zhu Wei's works are an artist's demonstration on living conditions of modern people, and also personal experience of the view of current Chinese culture. Many of his series works such as Eggs Left over by the Red Flag, Utopia, are re-drawn in a way of boneless painting on rice papers which has been processed with antique finishing and make the works show a dramatic alienation effect, meanwhile different landscapes of culture in different times and areas integrated and blended on the same picture, aroused a lot of pondering on history and reality among viewers.
- The images of green uniform and Chinese tunic suit that often emerge from Zhu Wei's works naturally make viewers think of ‘ideology’ and ‘politics’. But these dramatic conflicted images in Zhu Wei's works are calm and moderate, which is much related to the old paper, the lapping of lines and ink, as well as the careful management of the layout. If the ‘old hard ink, no less lovely’ is a trace of the Song Dynasty's style, Zhu Wei's figure painting is often seen with strong and generous images, including those metal sculptures with dust and sand made according to these images which give the impression of Han and Tang Dynasties. And the accumulation of these skills and cultivation is converted into the power that can be used to criticize and reflect on today's reality.

App Features:
- Bilingual: English and Simplified Chinese, interchangeable through setting;
- Added visual premium to zoom in for larger image;
- 20 super-size HD digital artworks containing Zhu’s electronic signature;
- Sharing the App or each piece of work with friends on Twitter, Facebook and Sina Microblog;
- All artworks available for sale on Artdepot.cn.
- Added the ability to update works and photos via small update packages, so it can keeps all works up-to-date in an easier way

Notice:
The App is operated in iOS 4 or higher edition operation system. The digital artworks require network supporting for super-sized HD photographs. Please keep connected to the network while downloading.