In the work of Wang Pei, tightly cropped faces are rendered on canvas with meticulous and unwavering detail. Light glistens on the moist surface of an eye, translucent layers of saturated colour forms skin as minute crevices and folds undulating in and out of focus. Brooding dramatic tension is heightened by the murky chiaroscuro of a darkened background.
Wang Pei (b. 1989, China) lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. He received his BA in Sculpture from China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, in 2012; his MA in Oil Painting from China Academy of Art, in 2015; and his PhD in Medieval Studies RA from University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain in 2021. Selected exhibitions include: Episode II: Home and Away, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK (2024); The Enneagram Mask, Workplace, London, UK, (2024); Prophetic Dreams, Kutlesa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (2024); Vitalis Violentia, Podium Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); Mute, Tara Downs, New York, USA (2024); Notes Toward a Shell, Tara Downs, New York, USA (2024); Shape of times, Yi Gallery, HangZhou, China (2021); China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Art Fund Young Art Talent Project, Beijing, China (2018); Back to Sensibility, Contemporary Art New Year’s Eve Exhibition, London, UK (2017). He received the National Arts Fund Young Art Talents Rolling Funding Project in 2018.
