Road Movie

$2,630.00

Road Movie

Oil on Canvas 31.5'' × 23.6''

Road Movie

Name: Road Movie
Brand: MA AO
Price: 2630.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$2,630.00

Title: Road Movie

Artist:Ma Ao

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Artwork Size: 80 × 60 cm（31.5'' × 23.6''）

Framed Size: 100 × 80 cm（39.4'' × 31.5''）

Year: 2025

Frame: Black wood-grain solid wood frame with white mat

Artwork ID: MBA-2025-030

Authenticity: Original · One of a Kind · Signed Certificate of Authenticity

Artwork Description:

Road Movie is a contemporary oil painting created in 2025 by Chinese artist Ma Ao. The composition presents a surreal landscape where simplified cacti, abstract road forms, and fragmented texts coexist within a dreamlike space.

At the center of the painting, elongated white figures rest upon circular structures resembling wheels or film reels. Their fluid bodies and quiet poses create a sense of suspension, as if the characters were drifting through an endless journey rather than inhabiting a fixed location.

The repeated cactus shapes evoke a desert environment often associated with long-distance travel and cinematic road narratives. Meanwhile, scattered handwritten characters float across the surface of the painting, functioning like fragments of dialogue or subtitles within an unfolding visual story.

Through flat color fields, stylized forms, and symbolic imagery, Ma Ao constructs a visual language that blends narrative suggestion with playful abstraction. The painting echoes the structure of a film sequence—moments, scenes, and thoughts appearing simultaneously within a single frame.

Road Movie ultimately reflects on movement, solitude, and the poetic experience of travel. Rather than depicting a literal journey, the work invites viewers to imagine a psychological or emotional road unfolding across the landscape of the mind.

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MA AO

Made with care and unconditionally loved by our customers, this signature bestseller exceeds all expectations.Ma Ao is a Chinese contemporary artist and designer working across painting, experimental ink, and interdisciplinary visual practice. His work is characterized by a distinctive personal language and a strong visual structure that reflects both individual consciousness and cultural inquiry.
Ma Ao has participated in international exhibitions such as CONTEMPORARY CHINA 1946–2019 (Italy) and the PRISM International Artists Exhibition (Norway), along with multiple contemporary art and cross-cultural exchange projects in China.
His work Shuncheng Temple is collected by the Brunei National Mosque, and Zhong Kui is collected by the Cross-Cultural Research Center of the University of Reggio, Italy.