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Wang Guangyi 王廣義

born 1957, Heilongjiang
works Beijing
Wang Guangyi (born 1957, Harbin) graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, in 1984. A founding member of the Northern Art Group in the 1980s, he is a major figure of the Political Pop movement and is known for producing works that juxtapose propaganda images from the Cultural Revolution with contemporary Western advertising. Wang lives and works in Beijing.
Works by Wang Guangyi include Painting and Sculpture.

There are 10 objects by Wang Guangyi from the M+ Sigg Collection available online.

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Photograph showing a room with walls covered in posters that feature big Chinese characters in shades of black, red, and white. Four extra-large characters in white against a red background lie on a red carpeted floor.
Photograph showing a room with walls covered in posters that feature big Chinese characters in shades of black, red, and white. Four extra-large characters in white against a red background lie on a red carpeted floor.

Diffused Religion and the Origins of Chinese Avant-Garde Art

Yang Zi, recipient of the inaugural Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research, investigates folk religious imagery in avant-garde art
19 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article
Film still showing a man in a suit standing before a row of large paintings. The oil painting in the foreground depicts men and women on snow-covered ground, smiling and flushed as they lean forward to move a section of an aqueduct. A figure on the viewer's right holds up a green flag. The partially completed aqueduct forms the backdrop in the upper half.
Film still showing a man in a suit standing before a row of large paintings. The oil painting in the foreground depicts men and women on snow-covered ground, smiling and flushed as they lean forward to move a section of an aqueduct. A figure on the viewer's right holds up a green flag. The partially completed aqueduct forms the backdrop in the upper half.

Inside ‘M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation’

Join curators Pi Li, Wu Mo, and Isabella Tam on a virtual tour of the exhibition ‘M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation’
27 mins: 
M+ Exhibitions  /  Video

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