Platform China will launch the first solo exhibition for the artist Wang Yilong in the dRoom space on June 26, 2021. Titled with The Painter on Balcony, the exhibition will display some of his works in the recent three years.

With the works focusing on the true feelings of people in the real world, Wang Yilong tries to create the allegory of human beings in the contemporary society with paintings. He favors the themes of “love” and “embrace”, and in contrast, he often depicts allegorical social scenes as well. He conveys his personal insight into the real life through his emotional depiction in the paintings. In addition, the core of his creation lies in the exploration of painting forms. In recent years, as his creation style evolves, his paintings have gradually taken on the shape and color full of his own tone. In some of his new paintings, the slightly strange shape highlights the sense of Fremdheit of the image, and the visual stimulation brought by such shape is adjusted by the pastel colors. Therefore, his paintings contain complicated emotional extendibility.

The images in Wang Yilong’s works are general and concise: Although the complex details are abandoned, the paintings are still worthy of repeated appreciation. Such charm benefits from his elaborate arrangement of the abstract relationships in each paining. Obviously, his paintings inherit the gene of modernism, which also indicates the possibility of continuity and development. Just as Wang Yilong has said, “I can’t get rid of the influence of the predecessors and even my contemporaries. I have stood on the shoulders of giants, and I will try to see further by myself. I think this is a benign relationship.”

The title of the exhibition--The Painter on Balcony--not only suggests the scene of his daily creation, but also reveals his ambition--the will to grow up in the sunshine with all his strength.