You may not know of anyone named "Lao Wan", nor heard his name. But he is there among us all the same. "Lao Wan" is the migrant worker - the man who travels from place to place, laying the bricks, picking the fruit or doing other itinerant work away from his home town.

"Being Three" Art Gallery in Beijing: another exhibition opens. Visitors taking time to read the wall texts soon understand, the show is about one man, "Lao Wan." He may be found in many places at the same time. Though there are many Lao Wan's, Lao Wan is always one man, the migrant worker, the outsider wherever he goes.

"Lao Wan" is the creation of painter/performance artist Wang Gang, It's the name he has given all images of the migrant workers who are the principal subjects of his paintings.

The present exhibition is a retrospective, tracing the evolution of the artist and his art. Through all the works, one thing remains unchanged, unvarying. It's the weathered face that conceals as much as it reveals, the face of Lao Wan.

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