MINE PROJECT is pleased to present Wang Zhiyuan, a solo exhibition of the latest works from the Beijing-based artist Wang Zhiyuan. Wang's work explores how he interacts physically and consciously with the painting and responds to the constantly changing images. To Zhiyuan, painting is a process to experience under a changing and unknown state. The randomness, contingency, certainty, strangeness, and serendipity that occurred in this process inspire and influence each other, and constantly push forward his practice. This exhibition is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Asia.

Wang Zhiyuan uses a variety of materials in his practice: acrylic, spray paint, and charcoal are repeatedly stacked together to create strips of colors that run through or rest on the canvas. Contrasting colors cross and cover each other, detailed scratches and particles of the brushstrokes transit different materials into a blend of gamut boundaries, giving breath across layers of color. In the meantime, Wang pays particular attention to the physical actions during the painting process, such as the interaction between the brush and the extension of the arm, the speed and force applied of the stroke movement, and touches of the multiple textures and mediums. All these specific processes constitute the abstract fields and traces.

Gallery address: 11F, The Hennessy, 256 Hennessy Road, Wanchai