Untitled (stage) was completed after the Large Rowboat series of works. In physical shape, it was a ‘conceptualized’ simplification of three-dimensional space, and the resemblance between physical shapes was used to carry out connected ‘substitutions’. For instance, by establishing a connection between a square computer and a square head, and transforming round bicycle wheels into balls. The background was made to resemble a stage.

（Statements by the Artist, 2011)

Initially fascinated by Dadaism, Wang Xingwei has been building up an exquisitely unique pictorial language in which seemingly disconnected elements –each serving as a conceptual entry from the artist’s own “visual dictionary”– are juxtaposed in order to purposely dismantle the acknowledged logic of thinking and create, by means of their disruptive power, new and unpredictable interpretative possibilities.

Untitled (2007, 120×120 cm) is a work resulting from an increasingly extreme formal simplification of the cartoonist trend that, inspired to the Shanghai comic tradition of the Twenties, hallmarks a number of paintings executed by Wang Xingwei between 2006 and 2007. Untitled (2007) constitutes a significant example of re-emergence and recombination of one of the artist’s favoured “pictorial headwords” of his 2007-2008’s canvasses.

(Nataline Colonnello, Wang Xingwei-Untitled 2007, 2011[Excerpt])