Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Comments on the Finalist

Beyond the Cloud blends various feelings, experiences and dreams naturally, and transforms an art studio to an Arcadian retreat via its integration of the interior and exterior spaces of the studio.

People's memories of the past and their ecological concerns are awakened in their visual appreciation and physical participation of this work.

Wang has spent years in creating many notable installations for audience's spatial experience with bamboo, wood and rattan as local/genuine material for creation. As both an avant-garde artist and a rural worker, Wang visualizes in those works his humanistic cries, environmental concerns, and reflections upon the evils of the world with their exalted significance of material, beauty of structure and transformation of space.

By adding solid strength to its dynamic structure, Beyond the Cloud gets rid of Wang's usual favor to massive construction, and allows its neighborhood to visit and participate with ease.

Artwork Introduction

"Beyond the Cloud", challenges our normal fear versus our aspiration to reach for a real shelter for our inner self. One has to climb a bamboo ladder and tight rope across meandering vines to reach a hanging structure from afar. It is thus the best "outward bound' experience one can get without leaving the city to get our innate physical and spiritual elements recharges. He has always been in research of the relationship between nature and humanity. One can see the trend from his early works expressing the stress of confrontation to that of of complimentary coexistence. From his early warnings with use of sharp harsh axes to his present use of the soft pliable rattan, one can see his leading to basics in a very tender and inviting way.

About the Artist

Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Chinese Culture University. In 1990, he Lived and worked in Paris, at the same time, he gained the honor of the member of "La Maison des Artistes". His works always concern the theme of love and enviroment, and he love to present these themes by using local materials. He has been taken part in many big exhibitions around the world, such as Venice Biennale Exhibition, Salon de la Jeune Peinture in Paris, River: New asian art-A dialogue in Taipei", etc. His solo exhibitions include: Alternative Space, Bamboo Curtain Studio project, etc.