until Sunday June 23 2013

Zürcher Studio
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33 Bleecker Street
10012 New York
United States

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Zürcher Studio is pleased to present the second New York solo exhibition of Wang Keping’s newest body of work, Women. He is known as one of the founders of the Chinese avant-garde group, Xing Xing (The Stars), formed in 1979. He has been living near Paris since 1984 and he has been represented by Zürcher Paris / New York since 1986.

Wang’s works were among the highlights of the wildcat exhibition, triggering astonishment, laughter and endless comment. The sculptures – Silence, Chain and others---which the artist hung on the fence of the National Art Museum, were caricatures and lampoons, kinds of press cartoons in 3D whose message came across at once.

The resultant sculptures are at once ancient and modern, primitive---primal, even---and sophisticated, raw and subtle. His objective is an ongoing formal simplification and, as in those early works in China, his quest systematically leads his to trees, with all their knots and branches.