Wowser Ng

Zhen Wu, known as Wowser Ng (b.1998), is a China-born, London-based visual artist. Wowser gets a letter of recommendation from Steve Brodner in 2019 then he continues to study at UAL for his Master's degree in 2021. His artworks are selected for the 5th Fida Awards Finallist, ijungle illustration award 2021-New Talent in 2022.

He designs fashion illustrations for many brands, including YSL, L 'Oreal Paris, and Chery Automobile, and co-designs artwork《Mirror Garden》with Florentia Village in 2021. Wowser exhibits globally, including Shanghai exhibition center, Beijing 798 Art District, The Holy Art galley, TRiCERA ART, Tableaux Voices of a NYC Victorian Salon, and Central Saint Martins Museum. His works are collected by Central Saint Martins Museum and collectors in Shanghai, Wuhan, Tokyo, and London.

In 2022, His artworks are featured in Contemporary Art Curator magazine and Contemporary Art Collectors, Saatchi Art in a collection.

"Fast," "hype," and "packaging," brings extravagant material consumption, as well as symbolic business culture, which makes the power of the individual irresist the tide swept. Therefore, it easily leads the public to succumb to quick and temporary popularity.

The essence of pop art is to deconstruct thoughts, which is a kind of ideology of deconstructing and remodeling. It is anti-historical and anti-classical and often takes social figures of the masses and it copies the original appearance of life as the basic elements of creation. But this empty “art” is over-interpreted, which makes the empty subject matter more superficial. The existence of pop culture further defines the connotation of the commodity as anti-art, which makes the commodity and commerce a symbol of overturning high spirits attack traditional art.

My work works by appropriating fashion products, commodities. These sleek and gorgeous images depict generation Z, an era of rapid material economic development, and attempt to highlight the dangers of continuing to support materialism. When I put forward the issue of the relationship between commodities and people, the audience needs to reflect on the influence of the media in the generation Z on us and question the power of the fashion/product industry endorsement. My painting combines abstract and concrete, which is a challenge to Pop art. I develop the painting practice of combining abstract and Pop. With a visual narrative to reveal the pop culture under the influence of the current society.