Wang Guangyi - Contemporary Artists

Materialist’s Art

The Saatchi Gallery
 

Wang Guangyi

Materialist’s Art

2006
Oil on canvas

300 x 400 cm

Guangyi's Materialist's Art is exemplary of a new "cultural revolution". The dramatically outlined figures brandishing red book gospel, set against flat planes of colour, are rendered in a style specific to Chinese government issue posters of the late 60s and early 70s. Emblazoned with the words " Materialist�s" and "Art" the messaging is both condemnation and incitement, a statement of radicalisation and power, repositioning the aesthetics of totalitarian authority as a signifier of absolute and extravagant decadence.
 
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