WANG YANCHENG (né en 1960)

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WANG YANCHENG (né en 1960)
Composition, 2007 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right 120 x 120 cm 47 ¼ x 47 ¼ in. PROVENANCE Galerie Trigano, Paris Private collection, Paris Composition is distinguished by a more spread out color, the surface of the canvas gradually becomes smooth and homogeneous. The painter takes a path towards the 2010s where his canvases will lose their material and leave room for diffuse and soft tones. It is thus a pivotal work from which an active spirituality emerges, which Wang Yancheng finds when he returns regularly to China from the 1990s onwards. The Way of the Open Life of the Tao invites us to experience the world and to share its secret breath. In China, Wang Yancheng reconnects with a certain immensity, with natural spaces, and achieves a mise en abyme of the two cultures, French and Chinese, in his work which is an ode to nature. Wang Yancheng Born in 1960 in the province of Guangdong, Wan Yancheng is a Franco-Chinese painter who now lives between Paris and Beijing. After studying at the Shandong Academy of Fine Arts in Yantai, he became a teacher and lecturer. During his training, he discovered Western art, which was then taught by Chinese artists returning from trips to Europe, particularly France. He was barely thirty years old when he went to France for the first time. After a stay in Saint-Etienne, he settled in Paris and divided his time between the French capital and Beijing. From 1998 onwards, his work is represented in Chinese public collections, notably in the Shenzhen Museum of Fine Arts and the Fine Arts Museum of China in Beijing. In 2002, he became vice-president of the IACA at the International Association of Art of UNESCO and promotes international artistic and cultural collaborations. In 2010, the Musée de Montparnasse devoted a retrospective to him, exhibiting a series of recent works which were later exhibited in Beijing. A recognized artist, Wang Yancheng is the true successor of the first generations of Franco-Chinese artists and their main representatives such as Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun. Indeed, he follows the ideals and theories of lyrical abstraction and develops in his compositions a pictorial freedom allowing him to retranscribe in a direct way his individual emotions. The three works we present belong to a corpus of paintings that began in the 2000s. Most of these productions have titles referring to landscape, flowers, seasons, land and sea. The brushwork is thick and refers in particular to Chinese seals. Two of these "Untitled" paintings date from 2003. The material is centralized in the middle of the canvas, invoking a seal or a bunch of flowers.
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