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CLCgalleryventure CLC Gallery Venture is a new gallery based in Beijing and the result of a partnership between C5 Gallery and C-Space + Local.

Wang Xuan solo exhibition "The Story of a Dream"Opening: 2025.08.302025.08.30-2025.10.19Artist: Wang Xuan Wang Xuan (197...
25/08/2025

Wang Xuan solo exhibition "The Story of a Dream"

Opening: 2025.08.30
2025.08.30-2025.10.19

Artist: Wang Xuan

Wang Xuan (1979, Guangxi) graduated from the Guangxi Art Institute in 2002. In 2011 he graduated from the National Academy of Plastic Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he studied under Prof Erwin Gross, and received his Master's degree. He currently lives and works in Munich, Germany.

Wang Xuan combines classic images from European andChinese art with everyday items in his work. He mixes unrelated things in unexpected ways, making classical iconsseem out of place and time. His style blends traditional art with a modern touch that might give the impression ofmistakes but surprisingly creates a balanced effect. His images become more like symbols than specific messages. Indoing so, Wang's art focuses more on his personal expression rather than carrying deep, philosophical meanings.

I Will Be Here, 2025acrylic on linen 100x70 cmThe exhibition Bird on Fire presents a highly personal yet emotionally uni...
24/08/2025

I Will Be Here, 2025
acrylic on linen
100x70 cm

The exhibition Bird on Fire presents a highly personal yet emotionally universal language of painting, revealing Wang Xiaofu’s experimental field where she organizes emotions through visual form. In her paintings, fire is both physical and psychological; friendship is both relational and a generative method; the “bird” is a flash image—named and unnamed—that flickers between dream, memory, and language. Through outward observation and inward reflection, Wang continuously paints her imagined world—and herself within it. I Will Be Here, serving as a kind of momentary conclusion: in the fusion of a flying bird and cross-shaped light, the artist’s self becomes visible.

Artist: Wang Xiaofu
Exhibition: Bird on Fire
2025.07.04-2025.08.25

The Shadow's Farewell, 2025acrylic on linen 186 x 260 cmLu Xun’s assertion that “only darkness and nothingness are real”...
23/08/2025

The Shadow's Farewell, 2025
acrylic on linen
186 x 260 cm

Lu Xun’s assertion that “only darkness and nothingness are real” has not led Wang to portray suffering. Instead, she translates personal experience into a reconstructed visual order—a surreal farewell in a dream-like trance, rendered in vivid and exuberant layers of color

Artist: Wang Xiaofu
Exhibition: Bird on Fire
2025.07.04-2025.08.25

Otay: Onii, 2025acrylic on linen 101 x 55 cmFrench philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote in The Psychoanalysis of Fire that...
22/08/2025

Otay: Onii, 2025
acrylic on linen
101 x 55 cm

French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote in The Psychoanalysis of Fire that fire presents “an opportunity that evokes endless memories and creates a universally significant personal experience.” Forher debut solo exhibition at CLC Gallery Venture, “Bird on Fire”, Wang Xiaofu revisited personal memories with introspection of her friendship with musician Otay:Onii. And by adopting “fire” and its related imageries, Wang expands their intimate emotional connection to notions of self-reflection, mutual illumination between creative individuals, and personal transformation and growth through artistic practice.

“My heart is trembling, like a captured little bird.” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in White Nights.This phrase inspired Wang’s imagination to connect the imagery of a small bird to the symbolism of the heart, which became an iconic motif that recur in many of Wang’s works. Although subjects and themes determine her compositions, these symbolic imageries evolve over time. Amid their creative exchanges, Wang perceived Otay:Onii’s musicalperformance as “a burning bird,” a realization that shifted the bird as an embodiment of the ‘heart’ to being the projection of her friend and their shared sense of affinity and respective creativity, as Wang says, “A bird the colorful part is me, and the part that sings is Otay:Onii."

Artist: Wang Xiaofu
Exhibition: Bird on Fire

A Stone’s Plunge, 2025acrylic on linen 50 x 35 cmWang once remarked on her love for the image of a cross-shaped light, w...
22/08/2025

A Stone’s Plunge, 2025
acrylic on linen
50 x 35 cm

Wang once remarked on her love for the image of a cross-shaped light, which naturally forms a balance between horizontal calm and vertical stability. She imagines a still lake opening its eyes—when a stone is thrown, the splash, reflection, and ripples also form a cross, shaping the moment in Throwing a Stone into the River.

Artist: Wang Xiaofu
Exhibition: Bird on Fire

The Gift of a Moment, The Moment of a Gift, 2025 acrylic on linen 195 x 139 cmIn The Moment’s Gift, The Gift of the Mome...
20/08/2025

The Gift of a Moment, The Moment of a Gift, 2025
acrylic on linen
195 x 139 cm

In The Moment’s Gift, The Gift of the Moment, the bird has taken flight. No matter how intense the flames dance under, the viewer’s gaze is inevitably drawn to the bird’s radiant movement. In this sense, a bird in flames has gradually returned to symbolize the artist herself.

Artist: Wang Xiaofu
Exhibition: Bird on Fire

After That, 2025acrylic on linen195 x 139 cmIn After That, with its cooler tone, we find a visual inversion of Bird on F...
19/08/2025

After That, 2025
acrylic on linen
195 x 139 cm

In After That, with its cooler tone, we find a visual inversion of Bird on Fire: entangled colors form lush, ribbon-like plants enveloping the bird’s back, as though looking back at a memory from the other side of time

(by Fiona He )

Artist: Wang Xiaofu
Exhibition: Bird on Fire
2025.07.05-2025.08.24

A Place to be Held, 2025acrylic on linen187.5 x 260 cmAmong the works on view in this exhibition, Wang applies acrylic p...
11/08/2025

A Place to be Held, 2025
acrylic on linen
187.5 x 260 cm

Among the works on view in this exhibition, Wang applies acrylic paint to primed linen, rendering a seemingly dry, rough surface—these thinly layered, but highly saturated, colors interlock and overlay like crystal structures. In unexpected and subtle moments, she inserts surprising details, where thicker marks appear subliminal, evoking ineffable or even latent feelings. These are matched by sharp, radiant forms—flames, water, energy fields—keeping the stillness of the painting in constant and unsettling motion. Wang also assigns each painting a unifying tone, like a key to unlock its sentimental atmosphere, a sentence, or a pitch in one’s voice, to create a visual melody at times, harmonious, or dissonant with other works. Her exuberant colors are often subdued by somber blacks, setting up a contentious visual tension between ascent and resistance, leaving psychic traces that lead sublimation or even, descent. For example, in Hiding Place, swirling strokes radiate from the bottom of the canvas in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, creating a dynamic vortex whose indistinct forms blur the lines between smoke, clouds, and the turbulence stirred by a flock of birds. Illuminated at the center, the vortex lures the viewer’s gaze inward, as does J.M.W. Turner’s Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth.

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Bird on Fire, 2025, acrylic on linen, 76x42.5cmBird on Fire, eponymous of the exhibition title, departs on a renewed jou...
26/07/2025

Bird on Fire, 2025, acrylic on linen, 76x42.5cm

Bird on Fire, eponymous of the exhibition title, departs on a renewed journey of one’s memory. The once-contained flames (colors) now engulf the entire canvas; swiftly applied and layered brushstrokes swirl like fireworks around the bird perched on a branch. They seem to have blended together, making the sun in the background dissolve into a haze. In Wang's paintings, fire is constantly in motion, shifting, while steadily retaining an upward momentum.

Artist: Wang Xiaofu
Exhibition: Bird on Fire

Exhibition view of Wang Xiaofu "Bird on Fire". The exhibition runs until August 24th.“My heart is trembling, like a capt...
19/07/2025

Exhibition view of Wang Xiaofu "Bird on Fire". The exhibition runs until August 24th.

“My heart is trembling, like a captured little bird.” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in White Nights.This phrase inspired Wang’s imagination to connect the imagery of a small bird to the symbolism of the heart, which became an iconic motif that recur in many of Wang’s works. Although subjects and themes determine her compositions, these symbolic imageries evolve over time. Amid their creative exchanges, Wang perceived Otay:Onii’s musicalperformance as “a burning bird,” a realization that shifted the bird as an embodiment of the ‘heart’ to being the projection of her friend and their shared sense of affinity and respective creativity, as Wang says,  “A bird the colorful part is me, and the part that sings is Otay:Onii."



Exhibition view of Wang Xiaofu "Bird on Fire". The exhibition runs until August 24th.French philosopher Gaston Bachelard...
16/07/2025

Exhibition view of Wang Xiaofu "Bird on Fire". The exhibition runs until August 24th.

French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote in The Psychoanalysis of Fire that fire presents “an opportunity that evokes endless memories and creates a universally significant personal experience.” For her debut solo exhibition at CLC Gallery Venture, “Bird on Fire”, Wang Xiaofu revisited personal memories with introspection of her friendship with musician Otay:Onii. And by adopting “fire” and its related imageries, Wang expands their intimate emotional connection to notions of self-reflection, mutual illumination between creative individuals, and personal transformation and growth through artistic practice.



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