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Lot 909
WANG TIANDE (B. 1960)
Digital No 13-HLST057
Closed24 November 2014
Price Realised
HKD 275,000
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WANG TIANDE (B. 1960)
Digital No 13-HLST057
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
30 x 194 cm. (11 7/8 x 76 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2013
Digital No 13-HLST057
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
30 x 194 cm. (11 7/8 x 76 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2013
WANG TIANDE (B. 1960)
Digital No 13-HLST057
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
30 x 194 cm. (11 7/8 x 76 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2013
Digital No 13-HLST057
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
30 x 194 cm. (11 7/8 x 76 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2013
WANG TIANDE (B. 1960)
Selected exhibitions
2013 Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China (group)
2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (group)
2010 University of Sydney, Australia (solo)
2009 Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA (solo)
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA (group)
2008 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (group)
2006 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (group)
2001 Guangdong Museum of Art, China (group)
Notable collections
The British Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Boston Museum of Fine Art, USA
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
JP Morgan Bank
Born in Shanghai in 1960, Wang Tiande studied at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts from which he graduated in 1988. He currently teaches at Fudan University in Shanghai and serves as the Dean of the Art and Design Department.
A keen innovator of the calligraphy and painting traditions, Wang creates conceptual, experimental works that possess a distinctive mixed-media style, combining different materials and techniques. During an artist residency in Paris in 2002, the ash of Wang's lit cigarette was accidentally flicked onto the xuan paper, hollowing it out and creating a shape by chance. Inspired by this experience, Wang transforms his landscape paintings - often accompanied by calligraphy - by directly burning onto paper with cigarette or incense. Language, text and image thus become intertwined in Wang's work: the layers of paper with burnt marks and ink obstruct the viewer from gleaning any meaning from the painting, creating delicate and complex palimpsests of the modern age.
Selected exhibitions
2013 Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China (group)
2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (group)
2010 University of Sydney, Australia (solo)
2009 Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA (solo)
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA (group)
2008 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (group)
2006 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (group)
2001 Guangdong Museum of Art, China (group)
Notable collections
The British Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Boston Museum of Fine Art, USA
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
JP Morgan Bank
Born in Shanghai in 1960, Wang Tiande studied at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts from which he graduated in 1988. He currently teaches at Fudan University in Shanghai and serves as the Dean of the Art and Design Department.
A keen innovator of the calligraphy and painting traditions, Wang creates conceptual, experimental works that possess a distinctive mixed-media style, combining different materials and techniques. During an artist residency in Paris in 2002, the ash of Wang's lit cigarette was accidentally flicked onto the xuan paper, hollowing it out and creating a shape by chance. Inspired by this experience, Wang transforms his landscape paintings - often accompanied by calligraphy - by directly burning onto paper with cigarette or incense. Language, text and image thus become intertwined in Wang's work: the layers of paper with burnt marks and ink obstruct the viewer from gleaning any meaning from the painting, creating delicate and complex palimpsests of the modern age.