Wang Guangyi’s was born in the year 1957, Harbin, China His debut solo show took at Bellet Gallery in Paris in the year 1993 and has had numerous solo exhibitons at locations such as Xiangning Art Museum, Guangdong; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; Gallery Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland and Gallery Klaus Littmann, Basel to name a fewThough Wang Guangyi’s work has erroneously been associated with Chinese Political Pop, in reality one of the main themes of his art can be found in its relationship to the transcendent Juxtaposing revolutionary images with consumer logos, Wang’s canvases provocate with their duplicitous message, highlighting the conflict between China’s political past and commercialized present Stylistically merging the government enforced aesthetic of agitprop with the kitsch sensibility of American pop, Guangyi’s work adopts the cold-war language of the 60s to ironically examine the contemporary polemics of globalisation Through his critique, Guangyi’s paintings weave intricate narratives, implicating the role of the artist as an active participant (both as subjugator and subservient) in economic and social policy Guangyi treads a very delicate line between moral dictum and capitalist endorsement; the interpretation of his paintings alternates with the subjectivity of context Amalgamating, confusing, and blurring opposing ideological beliefs, Guangyi’s billboard sized canvases readily sell out national valour, while simultaneously devaluing status symbol luxury for the proletariat causeThe artist lives and works in Beijing, China