Zhan Wang
Hexahedral Artificial Rock
This online viewing room will present “Artificial Rock”—the most representative sculpture series by Zhan Wang. From the first “Artificial Rock” in 1995, the works this series have been collected by various museums, art institutions and private collectors throughout the world.
The online viewing room will be launched from 13 January 12:00 to 13 February 11:59 (CST).
Artificial Rock No.165(Hexahedral Artificial Rock)
2016-2021
Ed. 1/4
Stainless steel, hexahedral acrylic resin base
Artwork size: 78 × 25 × 26 cm
Base size: 25 × 25 × 25 cm
The previous "Artificial Rock" had a fixed base and a fixed viewing angle. But from a cosmic perspective, a rock has no front or back, so the artist created this Artificial Rock No.165 (Hexahedral Artificial Rock).
Zhan Wang uses stainless steel plates placed in pieces on the surface of natural stones, replicates their shapes with rubbing, and after reassembling, soldering and polishing, becomes a "Artificial Rock" with a hollow mirror surface that is faithful to the original stone. The simultaneous existence of truth and fiction, reality and emptiness in the work mirrors the current environment, and attempts to find the connection between industrial society and nature, and establish an aesthetic form belonging to this connection.
Artificial Rock No.165(Hexahedral Artificial Rock)
2016-2021
Ed. 1/4
Stainless steel, hexahedral acrylic resin base
Artwork size: 78 × 25 × 26 cm
Base size: 25 × 25 × 25 cm
About Zhan Wang
“The surface is everything”–Zhan Wang
Zhan Wang was born in 1962 in Beijing, China. In 1996 he graduated from the sculpture department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and he currently lives and works in Beijing where he teaches sculpture at CAFA. Zhan Wang is considered as one of the most important contemporary artists in China whose artistic creations touch upon sculpture, installation, actions, photography and video. Zhan Wang’s practice is firmly rooted in the culture by which he has been surrounded with over the course of his life and traditional Chinese understanding, whilst at the same time attempting to interpret the features of traditional culture from an individual perspective and by means of a distinctive creativity deduce anew and poetically transpose the effects of history, traditions, the spirit, the natural world onto the human situation and perceptions via his works by enfolding subject matter fromurbanization, artificial simulation and industrialization, alongside the materials used in the works themselves which lead to the creation of an entirely different connotation.
Zhan Wang: Artificial Rock No.165 (Hexahedral Artificial Rock)
This online viewing room will present “Artificial Rock”—the most representative sculpture series by Zhan Wang. From the first “Artificial Rock” in 1995, the works this series have been collected by various museums, art institutions and private collectors throughout the world.
The online viewing room will be launched from 13 January 12:00 to 13 February 11:59 (CST).
The previous "Artificial Rock" had a fixed base and a fixed viewing angle. But from a cosmic perspective, a rock has no front or back, so the artist created this Artificial Rock No.165 (Hexahedral Artificial Rock).
Zhan Wang uses stainless steel plates placed in pieces on the surface of natural stones, replicates their shapes with rubbing, and after reassembling, soldering and polishing, becomes a "Artificial Rock" with a hollow mirror surface that is faithful to the original stone. The simultaneous existence of truth and fiction, reality and emptiness in the work mirrors the current environment, and attempts to find the connection between industrial society and nature, and establish an aesthetic form belonging to this connection.
About Zhan Wang
“The surface is everything”–Zhan Wang
Zhan Wang was born in 1962 in Beijing, China. In 1996 he graduated from the sculpture department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and he currently lives and works in Beijing where he teaches sculpture at CAFA. Zhan Wang is considered as one of the most important contemporary artists in China whose artistic creations touch upon sculpture, installation, actions, photography and video. Zhan Wang’s practice is firmly rooted in the culture by which he has been surrounded with over the course of his life and traditional Chinese understanding, whilst at the same time attempting to interpret the features of traditional culture from an individual perspective and by means of a distinctive creativity deduce anew and poetically transpose the effects of history, traditions, the spirit, the natural world onto the human situation and perceptions via his works by enfolding subject matter fromurbanization, artificial simulation and industrialization, alongside the materials used in the works themselves which lead to the creation of an entirely different connotation.
