Wang Keping
dal 18/5/2011 al 29/6/2011
Segnalato da
18/5/2011
Wang Keping
18Gallery at Bund18, Shanghai
All Smiles - the artist is presenting an unprecedented project mixing conceptual art, installation and sculpture
All Smiles. The artist is a worldwide renowned sculptor. For his first solo show ever in Shanghai he is presenting an unprecedented project mixing conceptual art, installation and sculpture. The All in smile poem is the inspiration for this site specific project for which Wang Keping has made 1.000 sculptures that at first can be seen as bricks. Starting from an easy shape the artist becomes an architect and renews the exhibition space, building with those bricks walls and new spaces within the space. "The bricks can be piled up and form a wall, a stacked tower, lay them out and you can fill the ground, you can also use them as a chair or table, piggy bank, flowerpots on the balcony, etc." As art is a playful thing to Wang Keping the usage can be varied. Put the piece either indoor or outdoor, they can be installed in parks like pieces of bricks or stones... there are infinite possibilities of architectural development. "It can be piled up into a small castle, a small Great Wall, a bastion of iron" shares the artist. Opening Cocktail: Thursday May 19th, 2011 from 6 to 9pm.