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Wu Jian'an: 500 Brushstrokes
鈥淭hese 500 Brushstrokes were completed in 2021. They spent over a year in transit at sea before landing in New York. Today, when I see them again in 2022, I have a sense of familiarity and strangeness. There is some sweetness hidden underneath, and feelings of hope and optimism. I feel that the time I created them was not long ago at a time when a force of gathering and wishing to generate something consequential was moving between the strokes, eager and calling out.鈥� 鈥� Wu Jian鈥檃n, Beijing, May 2022
This summer the main gallery of ArtFarm is devoted to ten recent examples of Wu Jian鈥檃n鈥檚 ongoing series 500 Brushstrokes on which work commenced in 2016. The abstract formal language characteristic of these works came as a considerable surprise to Wu鈥檚 admirers as until then there had been a strong element of figuration in all his major series of paper cuts from 2003 onwards with the series known as Daydreams.
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鈥淭hese 500 Brushstrokes were completed in 2021. They spent over a year in transit at sea before landing in New York. Today, when I see them again in 2022, I have a sense of familiarity and strangeness. There is some sweetness hidden underneath, and feelings of hope and optimism. I feel that the time I created them was not long ago at a time when a force of gathering and wishing to generate something consequential was moving between the strokes, eager and calling out.鈥� 鈥� Wu Jian鈥檃n, Beijing, May 2022
This summer the main gallery of ArtFarm is devoted to ten recent examples of Wu Jian鈥檃n鈥檚 ongoing series 500 Brushstrokes on which work commenced in 2016. The abstract formal language characteristic of these works came as a considerable surprise to Wu鈥檚 admirers as until then there had been a strong element of figuration in all his major series of paper cuts from 2003 onwards with the series known as Daydreams.
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