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Bee Barn

Wang Keping

published at 26/06/2018
Installation de Wang Keping au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2016 - © Éric Sander
Chinese artist Wang Keping is self-taught and has lived in France for many years. He has always used traditional techniques for his charred wooden sculptures in keeping with the tradition of his country. His round, voluptuously shaped works are polished, understated - almost black - with a patina that intentionally allows venules and cracks in the wood to appear.
The artist feels passionate about what he calls “the flesh of forests”. He follows the natural curves of the wood to produce immensely sensual forms.
With their figures cut mid-body, like trunks, his sculptures seem to be rooted in themselves.
“Each piece of wood stirs up feelings in me, inspires me”, “I see the forms in the wood”, “the forms thrive in my imagination”. Wang Keping.
 
The artist treats us to a brand new, extraordinary collection at Chaumont-sur-Loire in the Bee Barn, where the sculptural alignments and buildup of effects strengthen the powerful emotion of these strikingly dense works.  More than forty sculptures in different shapes and sizes, with half-animal, half-human plant forms, will be on show to visitors for contemplating from above.
Some of the sculptures on display are made from oak from Chassepaille Forest, which was once owned by Princess de Broglie.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Wang KEPING
CHINA
 

Wang Keping au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2016 - © Éric Sander

Born in Beijing in 1949, Wang Keping has lived and worked in Paris since 1984.
In the late 1970s, along with Huang Rui and Ma Descheng, he founded the “Group of Stars” (Xing Xing), an anti-establishment art movement and the first group of unofficial Chinese artists... “At the time we were the only glimmers of light in an endless night. What's more, the stars that look so small from afar can turn out to be enormous planets”. They symbolised the first generation of contemporary Chinese artists.
In September 1979, he took part in an exhibition on the railings of the Beijing Fine Arts Academy.  In 1984, he was forced to leave because of his anti-conformist work. He decided to settle in France. His sculptures were exhibited in the Centre Pompidou in 1989.
 
He is represented by the Zürcher Gallery, Paris/New York and the 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong.

COLLECTIONS

  1. Aidekman Arts Center, Boston, USA
  2. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, United Kingdom
  3. Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Paris, France
  4. Fondation Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Annecy, France
  5. He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
  6. International Sculpture Park, Pu-Yeo, South Korea
  7. Museum of Contemporary Asian Art, Fukuoka, Japan
  8. Museum of Modern Art, Taizhon, China
  9. The China Club Collection, Hong Kong, China
  10. Fondation Guerlain, Paris, France
  11. Olympic Games Park, Séoul, South Korea
Complete Biography

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
Wang Keping, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
 
2013
Wang Keping, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Arts (UCCA), 798 District, Beijing, China
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
 
2012
Wood, Flesh Form, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Zurcher Gallery, Paris, France
 
2011
Eternal Smile, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Magda Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China
Zurcher Gallery, New York, USA
 
2010
Zadkine Museum, Paris, France
Zurcher Gallery, New York, USA
 
2009
Wang Keping, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
 
2008
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
 
2006
Zurcher Gallery, Paris, France
 
2005
Grand Siècle Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
 
2002
Wang Keping, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
 
1999
Jacques Barrère Gallery, Paris, France
 
1997
Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
 
1996
Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, USA
 
1994
At Work Gallery, Chicago, USA
 
1993
Chinese Modern Art Centre, Osaka, Japan
 
1991
Zurcher Gallery, Paris, France
 
1990
Monte Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1987
Art Waves Gallery, New York, USA
 
1986
Zurcher Gallery, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
Black and White Cats, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Art Projects, Hong Kong, China
 
2014
Art Basel Hong Kong 14, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery booth, Hong Kong, China
 
2013
Art Basel Hong Kong 13, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery booth, Hong Kong, China
 
2012
Art HK, Hong Kong
Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France
 
2011
Artistes Chinois A Paris, Cernushi Museum, Paris, France
Blooming in the Shadows Unofficial Chinese Art 1974-1985, China Institute, New York, USA
Art Paris + Guess 2011, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Paris, France
 
2008
China Gold, Art Contemporain Chinois, Maillol Museum, Paris, France
Go China – Writing on the Wall, Chinese Art from the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Origin Point, The Stars 30 years, Today Museum, Beijing, China
 
2005
Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
 
2004
Body and Nature, Two Chinese Artists, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Chine, le Corps Partout ?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France
 
2001
China without Borders, Goedhuis Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA
 
2000
At the New Century, 1979-1999 China Contemporary Art’s Works, Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Demand for Artistic Freedom, The Stars 20 years, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1999
Les Champs de la Sculpture, Champs-Elysées, Paris, France
 
1998
Vision 2000, Chinesische Gemälde und Skulpturen der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
 
1992
Sculptures - Frédéric Bleuet, Peter Briggs, Wang Keping, City Hall of Paris, France
 
1989
The Stars : 10 Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Tian An Men, je me souviens, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
 
1983
Painting the Chinese Dream, Chinese Art 30 Years after the Revolution, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Installation de Wang Keping pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2016 © DR
Installation de Wang Keping au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2016 - © Éric Sander
Installation de Wang Keping au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2016 - © Éric Sander
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