Oedipus and the Sphinx (Proposal 1993) — Wang Xingwei

In the three decades of his mature output, Wang Xingwei (*1969) has created an artistic universe all his own, where references collide, characters recur, and styles proliferate, all articulated in a deliciously skillful range of styles. Regarded as one of China’s most mature and wide-ranging contemporary painters, Wang Xingwei’s irreverent appropriation of visual references from both Chinese and Western art history has been a topic in his work since the beginning of his career.