Represented in France by the gallery PARIS-B, which exhibited his work last month at the Singapore art fair, considers Fu Site one of the most talented artists of his generation. Born in China in 1984 and living in France since 2006, this painter A virtuoso invents improbable worlds populated by chimeras, deformed creatures, and tattered bodies in pastel colors. A fantastic universe of a new kind unfolds in bottomless spaces. most disturbing.
One might think that AI had intervened, so much do the forms and spaces transgress the laws of anatomy, perspective, and gravity: decaying or atomized forms and floating spaces where everything seems to distort. Evoking in turn the surreal desert landscapes populated by Yves Tanguy's ectoplasmic floating forms, the atomized figures of Salvador Dali, the flaccid and convulsive flesh staged by Francis Bacon, and the bony explosions of François Lunven, his paintings plunge us into unfathomable worlds populated by indeterminate creatures.
Disintegration
Shreds swirling like petals (Circle et Ascending Path, 2022), fragmented or decaying bodies (Nude(2021), heterogeneous assemblages, swirling dances, stains and tangles of lines…: everything here conspires to disorient us. As in fairy tales, we are invited to enter the depths of an unreal universe in pastel colors, without spatial limits or vanishing points, outside of time, where everything seems to float and disappear. A dreamlike universe populated by gnomes and chimeras, pink horses and disembodied faces, animals and deformed human figures, as if fluctuating or unfinished. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes spectral (Woman and dark figure(2021), these enigmatic creatures evolve in unfathomable spaces. Incoherent spaces (devoid of foreground and background) which they inhabit without seeming to truly belong there.
Transitional forms
"Ambivalent, fleeting visions" 1 Fu Site's paintings sometimes proceed from "collages" of unidentifiable organic forms, evoking the exquisite corpses of the Surrealists or some science fiction film depicting the metamorphosis or disintegration of bodies. A master of indeterminacy, the artist seems to want to reveal the process of transformation of bodies or bodies in gestation, whose embryonic forms he readily merges while blending figurative and abstract styles in a vertiginous maelstrom. Thus depriving his scenes of any logical coherence, Fu Site plays with spatio-temporal ambiguity with chilling virtuosity. In a new approach to figuration, he elaborates disruptive fables, narratives "in the making," showing us reality devoured by the virtual.
- Heinz-Norbert Jocks, text from the exhibition "Fu Site – Games of Creatures" organized by the PARIS-B gallery in 2022
Biography
Born in 1984 in Liaoning Province, in northeastern China, Fu Site lives and works in Paris. He graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing (2006), the Versailles School of Fine Arts (2011), and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais School of Art (2014). He won first prize at Art School and first prize at the Canson competition in painting in 2013.
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