Le Couple, WANG KEPING, 2003
Le Couple, WANG KEPING, 2003
Le Couple, WANG KEPING, 2003

Grand Couple WANG Keping

  • Dimensions : 103 × 46 × 22 cm
  • Year : 2003
  • Material : Bronze
  • Signature : Signed and dated by artist
  • Editions : Edition of 8
  • Ton : Dark
  • Thèmes : Figuratif Monumentale

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Foundry Bocquel

Wang Keping is one of the most eminent members of Stars Art Group (xing xing 星星画会) , a foundational movement of the contemporary Chinese avant-garde active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Wang’s wood sculptures and his early theatre play uncovered the political opponents’  detention conditions, which also gave rise to sharp polemics in the presse in Taiwan and in China.

His wood sculptures blackened by fire and were firstly inspired by totem and by idols who reminded of folkloric tutelary figures in north of China and in Korean. Then his creation turned to the simple formes with the themes : women wearing a bun, kiss/couple, bird, masculine figures with tail, and a pair of teat. The simplification and purification were embodied in his sculptures, moreover, in the best cases reminded of Constantin Brancusi’s works.

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