Wang Tiande (born 1960), Motionless Journey to Changzhou

Wang Tiande, author of installations, photographs and calligraphy, is best known today for his ink paintings of the past two decades.

During an artist residency in Paris in 2002, he inadvertently generated a hole in a sheet of paper with his cigarette. Fascinated by the result, he has since produced landscapes that partly take up this principle, but whose compositions, subjects, patterns and texture effects are directly inspired by Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) painting. .

He begins by making a first landscape, painted in ink on paper, then covers it with a second sheet, pasted on the first and burned with cigarettes or incense sticks in order to materialize the contour lines of the mountains and trees. The two superimposed landscapes offer a stratigraphy of traditional and contemporary elements. The centuries-old history of ink painting thus forms the basis of a new form of expression and is always perceptible in the work, like an underlying drawing.

This relationship between present, nourished by history, and past, prolonged in new forms, is made even more explicit by the recent insertion in Wang Tiande's compositions of stampings of ancient inscriptions.

Cartel:

Wang Tiande (born in 1960)
Motionless travel in Changzhou, 2018
Ink on paper and burns
H.85,3cm x W.96,9cm
CM 2021-1

Gift of the Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum with the support of the Antoni Laurent Foundation, 2021

Photo credit :

© Paris Museums / Cernuschi Museum

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