Peng Wei’s work combines expressions of classic aesthetics in Chinese portraits and contemporary living condition. A traditional garment and a pair of embroidered shoes are her subject for many years. In the recent years, Peng Wei has extended her painting exploration to 3-dimentional, and created series of painting installations. These recent work has all together leaped out of the traditional material forms, in which traditional Chinese paintings were completely transformed during the de-materialization and alienation by 3-dimensional 3-dimentional installation, without losing any of the spirits in of those paintings. In today’s diverse art world of varying styles, it is rare to find such breakthrough a groundbreaking attempt that simultaneously possesses traditional symbolism and individual style. She maintains the essence of traditional Chinese water and ink paintings, as well as taking the tradition out of flat context, from paper into multi-dimensional spaces; meanwhile preserving Chinese ancestors’ proficiency, thus her work departs from water and ink, and then finally returns to it.
