WANG GUANGLE


Dates: 2009.4.2 - 5.15
Venue: Beijing commune


Contemporary Chinese art bears a strong social characteristic of the time, and the figurative paintings particularly show a strong narrative tendency. Yet Wang Guangle has his own approach to painting. In his works like the Terrazzo series, Wang did not offer any definitive meaning or even content to the viewers, instead, the objects in these paintings are represented as the form itself, making it hard to define the works as “abstract” or “figurative”. In his Coffin Paint series, Wang transferred a conceptual tradition of Chinese life philosophy into a way of painting. The temporal and spatial dimensions during the process of making the Coffin Paint are finally frozen into abstract forms on the canvas. An ascetic self-reflection has permeated Wang Guangle’s art practice and his works renews the thoughts, in the way of Buddhist mediation, on the objects themselves.