Zhan Wang (simplified Chinese: 展望, pinyin: Zhǎn Wàng) is a noted contemporary Chinese sculptor.
Born in 1962 in Shandong Province, China, Wang entered the Central Academy of the Arts as a sculpture major in 1983.
"Zhan Wang's career as an iconoclast began with In a Twinkling (1993), an installation of superrealist figurative sculptures. The figures' style was not new, but the method of installation was: after creating a group of figures in poses ...
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Zhan Wang (simplified Chinese: 展望, pinyin: Zhǎn Wàng) is a noted contemporary Chinese sculptor.
Born in 1962 in Shandong Province, China, Wang entered the Central Academy of the Arts as a sculpture major in 1983.
"Zhan Wang's career as an iconoclast began with In a Twinkling (1993), an installation of superrealist figurative sculptures. The figures' style was not new, but the method of installation was: after creating a group of figures in poses of arrested movement, he propped them in unlikely positions outside a building, creating a surrealistic vision of a world gone awry," wrote Britta Erickson in Art Journal.
His style concentrates primarily on abstract forms, which he calls floating stones. These are large, highly textured rock-like pieces coated in chrome. They are also called mountain or scholar's rocks. Wang refers to the series, which he began creating in 1995, as Artificial Jiashanshi.
Wang has applied a similar technique to meteorites.
In 2004, Zhan scaled Mount Everest...
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