Wang Yan Cheng

Selected Works

Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2008
Oil on canvas
180 x 160 cm

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2009
Huile sur toile
120 x 120 cm

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2018
Huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm
Signée en bas à droite

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre , 2018
Huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm
Signée en bas à droite

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2018
Huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm
Signée et datée en bas à droite

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2018
Huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm
Signée en bas à gauche

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2018
Huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm
Signée en bas à droite

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2018
Huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm
Signée en bas à gauche

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Wang Yan Cheng
Sans titre, 2018
Huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm
Signée et datée en bas à droite

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Biography

Wang Yan Cheng is a painter of Chinese abstraction. Indeed, his work is an extension of that of his elders, Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun. He is the heir to the age-old tradition of landscape in Chinese painting as well as to the formal Western freedom of abstraction. Wang Yan Cheng brings to abstraction the lesson of the cosmos and associates himself to some extent with the approach of Klein or Fontana by emancipating our field of vision.

Wang Yan Cheng was born in Guangdong, China in 1960. A student at the Shandong School of Arts from 1978 to 1981, he acquired an academic training in Western art, taught in particular by Chinese professors who had returned to teach in China after having continued the tradition of “journey to the West” – and in particular in France. He then studied at the Shandong Academy of Fine Arts. Graduating in 1985, he took up an assistant position the following year. From 1986 to 1988, he was a researcher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China. In 1989, he moved to France, now dividing his life between France and China. His work is an extension of that of his elders, Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun. He is the heir to the age-old tradition of landscape in Chinese painting as well as to the formal freedom of Western abstraction. Wang Yan Cheng brings to abstraction the lesson of the cosmos and associates herself in some way with the approach of Klein or Fontana by emancipating our field of vision.

His cosmic painting extends and renews the language of abstraction. It is particularly fascinating for its many material effects, its colour density and its subtle variations of light. It is a very rich painting, full of poetry and mystery. Its dynamism and the complexity of its forms never cease to surprise and nourish our gaze. Since 1999, he has exhibited in many museums in China. Solo exhibitions of his work were presented at the Shanghai Museum in 2003 and 2006 and at the Beijing Museums in 2006. In 2007 he created a spectacular 6-metre-long painting for the Beijing Opera. In July 2006, Wang Yan Cheng was named a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Journées du Patrimoine de Kering

Wang Yan Cheng