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Wang Tiande's exploration of ink expression has gone through different stages, and his recent works reflect the emphasis and pursuit of painting. At first glance, "Reading the Monument in Pingshan" and "Lin Quan Asking" are reinterpretations of the artistic conception and taste of the classic literati landscape, but the craftsmanship in them is very profound: the picture is a superposition of two layers of paper, the surface layer forms a "hollow" trajectory on the paper with the original method of burning incense sticks, and the bottom layer is a sketch painted by pen and ink. When such a picture is juxtaposed with the rubbings or real objects of ancient gold and stone, a new meaning is deduced. His works have complex structures and subtle techniques, including the transformation and reshaping of the language of brush and ink, the control of randomness and necessity in the creative process, the spiritual meaning of ashes and rebirth, and the warmth and respect of dialogue with classics.
Lin Quan Asks, 2019, rice paper, ink, flame, rubbing, 221.5×121cm
Distant Mountains and High Hidden Pictures, Xuan paper, ink, flame, rubbing, 73.5×88.2cm, 2023
"Pingshan Reading Tablet Map", 2019, rice paper, ink, flame, rubbing, 221.5×121cm
Reading the Tablet in Thin Snow, Calligraphy on Xuan Paper, Ink, Flame, Zheng Yan, 166×80cm×4 2019
Wanglu flooding map
2021
3D printing of rice paper, ink, flame wood
30.2×114.6cm×2
(Source: Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting)
About the Artist
Wang Tiande, born in Shanghai in 1960, graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in 1988 and later received his Ph.D. in calligraphy from the same academy.
He has held solo exhibitions in important art museums such as Today Art Museum, Suzhou Museum, Palace Museum in Beijing, and Guangdong Museum of Art, as well as important art institutions in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, New York, San Francisco, etc. He has been invited to participate in important group exhibitions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, Germany and other countries, including: "Shanghai Art Biennale" (Shanghai Art Museum), "Transformation and Breakthrough: Chinese New Art" (PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, etc.), "Open Era" (National Art Museum of China), "Shanghai Modern" (Museum Villa Stuck, Germany), "Ink Painting: The Art of Chinese Writing" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), "New Ink Art" (Hong Kong Museum of Art), "Red Flag: Chinese Contemporary Art" (Montreal Museum), "Modern Chinese Painting" (British Museum), "Ink Art in Contemporary China" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), "Inkland: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art" (Stanford University Museum), "Dream of Ink" (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). His works have been collected by the British Museum, Oxford University Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of New York, Museum of Fine Arts of the University of California, Berkeley, Royal Ontario Museum, Montreal Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cernuschi Museum in Paris, National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Suzhou Museum, etc.