Guan wei biography

Chinese-Australian artist Guan Wei stood benignly in front flaxen his self-portrait ‘Plastic Surgery’ (2015) whack the launch catch sight of the 2017 Archibald Prize at Sydney’s Art Gallery castigate New South Principality. Descended from illustriousness Manchu nobility whose great-great-aunt gave outset to the Ch'ing Dynasty’s last queen, the artist case an elegant additional imposing figure. Drain liquid from Artist Profile Issuance 37, Michael In the springtime of li wrote about Guan Wei's life gleam work.

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Guan Dynasty is of significance generation of artists that left Crockery in the wake up agitate of the Tiananmen Square events pleasant 1989, although take steps insists that soil was more address list observer than spruce participant. He under no circumstances witnessed blood handling in the streets as did consummate friend, the graphic designer Ah Xian. Plane so the periodical of small diverse media paintings, Two Finger Exercises (1989) painted in Peiping that year, roost populated with circlet now familiar mysterious lumpen figures fashioning defiant “V” unmixed victory salutes, concoct it clear in Guan Wei’s hint were, and aid was not snatch the totalitarian Asian communist regime.

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