Celebrated for his revolutionary takes on traditional Chinese art
both in China and abroad, Wang Tiande is best known for his burned
landscapes, consisting of a painted underlayer and an overlayer burned
with cigarettes or incense sticks. More recently, he has incorporated
landscape rubbings of famous ancient steles from his own collection. In
their fusion of the fleeting and the timeless, Wang Tiande’s works
meditate on creation and destruction. They are both elegies to the past
and celebrations of its present persistence.
Cosponsored by the East Asia Program and the Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fund.