Keping WANG (1949)

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Keping WANG (1949)
Little Woman, 2000 Bronze. Ed. EA 1/4. Stamp of the founder Bocquel. H.: 44 cm. Wang Keping was born in China in 1949, the year the People's Republic of China was founded. Self-taught, he began woodcarving in 1978 and became a co-founder of one of the first contemporary artistic movements in China, the Les Étoiles Group. His works give voice to the revolt of a China on the verge of transformation, after the end of the Cultural Revolution and the death of Mao Zedong. The first Les Étoiles exhibition is not officially authorized: the artists spontaneously hang their works on the gates of the National Art Museum of China. They were confiscated by the police two days later. The artists then organize a protest march, demanding the freedom to create. One year later, the same group of artists was invited to exhibit inside the museum. Wang Keping's works are among the most politically engaged within the group. His sculpture Silence shows a blind and deaf man as an analogy of the times. His work Idol is perhaps the first to dare a parody of Chairman Mao, represented in the guise of Buddha. Along with Hang Rui and Ma Desheng, he is one of the main leaders of The Stars Group. He went into exile in France in 1984 and turned his work away from the political context to concentrate more on simplifying sculpture, both figurative and abstract. Inspired by the lines of the modernist Constantin Brancusi, the elegance of Han Chinese and the raw side of African sculpture, Wang Keping has opened a unique and very personal path in sculpture over the last forty years.
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