Evoking some archaic goddesses from the depths of time, Wang Keping ‘s monumental picket sculptures fascinate by their density and sensuality. Maternity, Origin of the World, Cyclops Lady… half-figure, half-totem, they seem frozen in their metamorphoses, suspended between type and formlessness, incarnation and abstraction… Carved in hundred-year-old timber, these hieratic figures appear to return from a concretion of time but in addition include within the fullness of their spherical types and their voluptuous swirls petrified streams of sap nonetheless throbbing with life… Calling for a caress, they conceal in the perfection of their clean and glossy surfaces all the imperfections of the wooden of which the Chinese language artist has made himself the singer: revealing its asperities (veins, knots, hollows…) with the flame of the blowtorch, earlier than sanding it to disclose its “soul,” he “listens to the language of wood”; it's he who imposes his type and his constraints.
Exhibition Metamorphoses
Until March 12, 2022
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
91, rue du Fg St-Honoré, Paris VIII
www.nathalieobadia.com
Open air workshop in the gardens of the Rodin Museum
77, rue de Varenne, Paris VII
www.musee-rodin.fr
From Might 2 to June 5
Carte blanche on the Musée Guimet
Musée national des Arts asiatiques Guimet
6, place d’Iéna, Paris XVI
www.guimet.fr
From November 23 to March 6, 2023
Publication Wang Keping by Flammarion (49 €)
Stéphanie Dulout
L’article WANG KEPING: Metamorphoses est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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