WANG TIANDE (B. 1960)
WANG TIANDE (B. 1960)

Hou Shan No 14 – HLST004

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WANG TIANDE (B. 1960)
Hou Shan No 14 – HLST004
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
157.5 x 87.5 cm. (62 x 34 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2014

Literature:
Kai Men Wang Tiande, Today Art Museum, Beijing, May 2014, p. 111.

A keen innovator in the calligraphy and painting traditions, Wang Tiande creates conceptual, experimental works in a distinctive mixed-media style, blending different materials and techniques in his Hou Shan series (Lot 723). Once, as the ash of Wang’s lit cigarette was accidentally flicked onto xuan paper, the artist was mesmerised as it hollowed the paper creating shape by chance. Inspired, Wang began transforming his landscape paintings - often accompanied by calligraphy - by directly burning onto paper with a cigarette or incense, against a background of classical Chinese paintings copied by Wang. Thus, language, text, image and medium become intertwined in Wang’s work: the layers of paper woven through with burn marks and ink obstruct the viewer’s ability to derive meaning from the painting, creating delicate and complex palimpsests for the modern age.

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