Window into a new kind of reality
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The artist gives no name for his style but says "it is in the meaning of a post-abstraction painting in the field between abstraction and figurism, in the triangle to a concept". Put simply, his paintings combine abstraction and figurative imagery into bold lines and color.
Viewers could sense it through his works, such as Sun Wukong, also known as the Monkey King, the main character in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en.
"I found the Western abstraction in the face or mask of Sun Wukong. It has the function of a bridge between the West and East for me," he says. "It's a period of assimilation and you touch things you don't know. It can be naive, it can be wise and this neutral point is the best situation for painting.
"Having spent several years in China and using a strongly expressive brush, he sees the calligraphic stroke as an influence on the Abstract Expressionism of the West itself," says curator Ronald Kiwitt, director of Beijing and Shanghai-based Other Gallery.
According to Catherine Cheng, Wehmer's manager and the exhibition's co-curator, Wehmer's recent works are composed of recognizable images carrying conceptual significance by means of his abstract expressionist technique.
"He provides us with a new experience and perspective, which enables us to see more clearly through the diversity of civilization and opens the window onto a new kind of reality," Cheng says.
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