{"id":3741,"date":"2015-03-14T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/artist\/chen-wenbo-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:14:21","slug":"chen-wenbo","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/chen-wenbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Wenbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chen Wenbo<\/strong> was born in 1969. He used to live and work in Chongqing and since 1999, he has been living in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts\u00a0and promptly became\u00a0one of the preeminent figurative oil artists in contemporary Chinese art. <strong>Chen\u2019s characters, young ladies in pink colours with blue eyes and soft skin, depicted on a black-tiled bathroom backdrop, look like\u00a0robots or celluloid dolls, between fiction and the reality of a cyberworld.\u00a0<\/strong>Allegories of the senses, they evoke sight, touch, and the pleasure of the bath. Clones of ideal beauty and ideal youth, the whole world would try\u00a0to resemble them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The artist seems to enjoy depicting this atmosphere of\u00a0youth fairytale, but his paintings question the desire of mankind to control it by artificial means, through colorful cosmetics and drugs.<\/strong> Displayed through\u00a0many exhibitions, Chen\u2019s work was shown\u00a0notably at Beijing\u2019s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, as well as in a traveling show that was exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Kunstmuseum Bern, and the Peabody Essex Museum, among others. His work regularly appears in museums and galleries exhibitions across China, North America, and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen\u2019s characters, young ladies in pink colours with blue eyes and soft skin, depicted on a black-tiled bathroom backdrop, look like\u00a0robots or celluloid dolls, between fiction and the reality of a cyberworld.\u00a0Allegories of the senses, they evoke sight, touch, and the pleasure of the bath. Clones of ideal beauty and ideal youth, the whole world would try\u00a0to resemble them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":389,"template":"","artist_cat":[24],"class_list":["post-3741","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-painter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}