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Oil painting on canvas depicting a crying baby. Over the image a handwritten red flowchart leads from the header ‘Passport’ through the phrases ‘Name in full’, ‘sex’ and ‘Date of birth’ to the word ‘Visas’ which is highlighted at the bottom of the canvas.

Oil painting on canvas depicting a crying baby. Over the image a handwritten red flowchart leads from the header ‘Passport’ through the phrases ‘Name in full’, ‘sex’ and ‘Date of birth’ to the word ‘Visas’ which is highlighted at the bottom of the canvas.

Oil painting on canvas depicting a crying baby. Over the image a handwritten red flowchart leads from the header ‘Passport’ through the phrases ‘Name in full’, ‘sex’ and ‘Date of birth’ to the word ‘Visas’ which is highlighted at the bottom of the canvas.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Wang Guangyi

Wang Guangyi 王廣義

Visas 簽證

1995

Wang Guangyi’s composition reflects upon geopolitics and the challenges of travelling outside China in the early 1990s, a reference to his own uncomfortable experience of applying for visas to go abroad for his exhibitions during that time. Here, private information such as place and date of birth are scrawled openly across a portrait of an infant, an allusion to a lack of privacy and being marked at birth.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

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Object Number:

2012.973

Object Type:

Related Makers:

Wang Guangyi (Artist)

Medium:

oil on canvas

Date:

1995

Dimensions:

overall: 150 × 120 × 3 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Wang Guangyi

About the Maker:

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.

Wang Guangyi Painting Visual Art M+ Sigg Collection

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M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, 23 February 2016 to 05 April 2016

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