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Grand Couple

Wang Keping

  • Year : 2003
  • Material : Bronze
  • Signature : Signed and dated by artist
  • Editions : Edition of 8
  • Tone : Dark
  • Thèmes : Figuratif, Monumentale
  • Dimensions : 103 x 46 cm

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Wang Keping is one of the most eminent members of Stars Art Group (xing xing 星星画会) , a foundational movement of the contemporary Chinese avant-garde active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Wang’s wood sculptures and his early theatre play uncovered the political opponents’  detention conditions, which also gave rise to sharp polemics in the presse in Taiwan and in China.

His wood sculptures blackened by fire and were firstly inspired by totem and by idols who reminded of folkloric tutelary figures in north of China and in Korean. Then his creation turned to the simple formes with the themes : women wearing a bun, kiss/couple, bird, masculine figures with tail, and a pair of teat. The simplification and purification were embodied in his sculptures, moreover, in the best cases reminded of Constantin Brancusi’s works.

Artist

Wang Keping

Wang Keping

Wang Keping est l’un des membres les plus éminents du groupe Xing Xing, les Stars. Son travail de sculptures de bois, noircies par le feu, tourne tout d’abord autour de totems et d’idoles qui rappellent les figures tutélaires folkloriques du nord de la Chine et de la Corée, empreintes de primitivisme. Puis il s’oriente vers des formes simples aux lignes pures avec un choix restreint de thèmes : femmes à chignon, baiser/couple, oiseau, figure masculine à queue, paire de mamelles . La simplification et l’épuration progressive tourne pour certaines sculptures à l’abstraction et dans les meilleurs cas rappellent le travail de Constantin Brancusi dans son esprit, un artiste qui l’a beaucoup influencé.

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