Ge Pingwei

1987 Born in Rizhao, Shandong Province

2011 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Sichuan Fine Art Institute with a bachelor's degree

2014 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a master's degree

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015
2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

The Power of Teaching - Eleven Cases of Contemporary Art Teaching, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai

Kurong - China Contemporary Wooden Media Exhibition, Four Seasons Gallery, Beijing

2014  

As the Sun Rise, Pan Shanghai Art Center, Shanghai

View on the Road - 2014 Selected Works of Sichuan Fine Arts of Institute, Youth Artists and Postgraduates, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai

Ecology - Public Sculpture Exhibition of Jinjiang Marsh, Jinjiang Wetland Sculpture Park, Chengdu

2014 Zeng Zhushao Sculpture Art Fellowship Exhibition, Sculpture Museum of China, Datong

Ten Years - 2004-2014 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Document Exhibition of the Sculpture Department, The Sculpture Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute A Gallery, Chongqing

In the last two years, a number of young artists have emerged in the field of sculpture. Ge Pingwei is one of the best of these new sculptors. His works take the wood as their medium, and take the original wooden knot as the starting point, and making it more prominent and forming a new image around it. In fact, artist and material, hands and mind, process and time all work together to give the work another dimension of meaning. The concept revealed transcends the material used to create the work. It is also from this point of view also that I personally hope to experience the work from the inside, including the labor intensive process of polishing wood and the physical experience of the "meaningless" labor. Behind the wood knots had lain the tangled transmission of life through the tree. In works in contemporary sculpture, for a work to be considered good, symbolic language, conceptual form, and personal emotional experience are all indispensable. -He Guiyan (Art Critic)