Skins-05
By Wang Haiyang
Overview
This artwork was last updated 1339 days ago.
2018
Pastel, Pastel on paper
Unique Work
Dimensions: 66.6cm (H) x 51.5cm (W) / 26.2" (H) x 20.3" (W)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings
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Artist statement
As part of his unwavering endeavour to conjure characters that can embody the liminal state of humanity, Haiyang conceived Skins, a collection of six pastel works paired with animation. The paintings, depicting hair-covered ancestral men and women, live in a surreal pictorial space that subverts the passage of time.
This unlikely cast of characters is transplanted from the prehistoric era into the contemporary stage as actors and re-enactors of modern human mannerisms while also ironically being commentary, and unawarely so, of the absurdity of contemporary times.
In Skins, Haiyang masterfully plays on the viewers’ natural instinct to feel both extraneous and yet connected to the narrative, bound to recognise part of their human experience reflected in the eye of these biomorphic creatures.
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Artist profile
Wang Haiyang
Born: 1984
Hometown: Shandong
Based in: Beijing
Graduated from the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wang Haiyang (b. 1984 in Shandong, China, currently lives and works in Beijing) employs a multimedia approach to expand the rhetorical scope of art. His work reflects on contemporary existential topics while investigating, through the medium of the …
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