-《维生素Z 43 F》

陈文波的艺术生涯起始于艺术家对装置艺术的实验， 并于1996年进入绘画领域。他的首个绘画系列题为“维生素Z”，描绘了身着艳妆的年轻人，创造了一种新的流行艺术风格。陈文波继而放弃人物画，将艺术创作的题材转向日常生活用品，如座位、手纸或者是光盘。他采用大幅画板，有时以这些物品来做比喻，唤起人们对社会问题的关注。为了制作这些绘画的模板，陈文波首先给描绘的物品拍照，然后通过电脑程序（Photoshop）对这些照片进行处理，将背景除掉，修改色调，创造出脱离时间和背景制约的理想画面。

陈文波的“维生素Z”系列作品的灵感源于重庆那些时常出入夜总会的年轻女孩。艺术家通过观察，发现这些衣着时髦的年轻人，用最新的化妆和时装重新改造自己，使其形象真假难辨。“维生素Z”系列作品表现了缺乏自信的年轻人改头换面，重塑自我的形象。陈文波画中女孩子的皮肤变得如塑料表面一般，脸上带有各种颜色的药丸，而头发则被完全剃光，看起来像没有性别之分的工业制造品。

   Vitamin Z 43F

Chen Wenbo began his artistic career by experimenting with installation works, before turning to painting in 1996. His first series of paintings, named Vitamin Z, depicts young people painted in bright colours, creating a fresh Pop Art style. Eventually Chen Wenbo abandoned the portraits and turned to objects from everyday life, like seats, toilet paper or CDs, painted on large scale canvas, sometimes using them as allegories to evoke social issues. Chen Wenbo begins these paintings by taking photographs and manipulating them with computer design programs, removing the background and modifying the colours to create an ideal image out of time and context.

Chen Wenbo’s Vitamin Z series was inspired by the young girls that frequent night clubs in Chongqing. The artist observed how these young hipsters used the latest trends in make-up and clothing to change their appearance, making it difficult to tell what they really look like.  Vitamin Z series expresses this uncertainty of self-image common among youth that results in a desire to re-fashion themselves. The girls in Chen Wenbo’s paintings have their skin turned into a plastic surface, while pills of various colours are spread across their faces and the hair is shaved off of their heads - making them look like genderless industrial products.