Represented in France by PARIS-B gallery, which exhibited his work last month at the Singapore art fair, Fu Site has emerged as one of the most talented artists of his generation. Born in China in 1984 and living in France since 2006, this virtuoso painter invents improbable worlds populated by chimeras, deformed creatures and tattered bodies in pastel colors. A fantastic universe of a new kind, deployed in the most unsettling bottomless spaces.
The shapes and spaces transgress the laws of anatomy, perspective and gravity: deliquescent or atomized forms and fl ottant spaces where everything seems to distort. Evoking Yves Tanguy's surrealist desert landscapes populated by ectoplasmic fl ottantes, Salvador Dalí's atomized fi gures, Francis Bacon's fl asque and convulsive flesh and François Lunven's bony explosions, his paintings plunge us into unfathomable worlds populated by indeterminate creatures.
DESAGREGATION
Petal-like swirls (Circle and Ascending Path, 2022), fragmented or deliquescent bodies (Nude, 2021), heterogeneous assemblages, dances of swirls, blotches and tangles of lines... everything here conspires to lose us. As in fairy tales, we are invited to
penetrate the depths of an unreal universe of pastel colors, without spatial limits or vanishing points, out of time, where everything seems to float and to be able to disappear.
A dreamlike universe populated by gnomes and chimeras, pink horses and bodiless troglodytes, animals and distorted human figures, as if fl uctuating or unfinished. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes spectral (Woman and dark fi gure, 2021), these enigmatic creatures evolve in unfathomable spaces. Incoherent spaces (devoid of foreground and background) that they inhabit without really seeming to belong.
TRANSITIONAL FORMS
"Fu Site's paintings are sometimes "collages" of unidentifiable organic forms that evoke the exquisite cadavers of the Surrealists or some science-fiction fi lm depicting the metamorphosis or disintegration of bodies. A master of indeterminacy, the artist seems to want to show the process of transformation of bodies or bodies in gestation, whose embryonic forms he doesn't hesitate to merge, while mixing figurative and abstract writing in a dizzying maelstrom. Depriving his scenes of any logical coherence, Fu Site plays with spatio-temporal ambiguity with chilling virtuosity. In a new approach to fi guration, he
elaborates disruptive fables, narratives "in the making", giving us a glimpse of reality devoured by the virtual.
1Heinz-Norbert Jocks, text for the exhibition "Fu Site - Jeux de créatures" organized by galerie PARIS-B in 2022.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1984 in Liaoning province, northeast China, Fu Site lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of Tsinghua University in Beijing (2006), the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles (2011) and the Ecole Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas-de-Calais (2014). He won the Art School first prize and the Canson first prize in painting in 2013.
