Explore vision, perception through painting

Art lovers can immerse in the inspiring paintings on show at “Before The Sun Goes Down”, which is running at Tang Contemporary Art until Nov 3.
This is a solo exhibition by Berlin-based Chinese artist Xiyao Wang who develops a kind of hybrid abstract painting that explores inner visions, bodily perceptions, sensations and feelings, interrogating her East-West biography.
Having studied art in Chongqing at a young age, Xiyao Wang was deeply captivated by European “New Expressionism” and determined to pursue advanced studies in Germany, eventually settling in Berlin.
Art world luminaries who had a profound influence on her include Cy Twombly and Albert Oehlen. She also sought inspiration from continental philosophy, particularly Gilles Deleuze’s (and likely Félix Guattari’s) rhizomatic theory of the world, which provided her with a theoretical framework for her artistic explorations.
Her brushstrokes, as if guided by the rhythms of heavy metal and electronic experimental music, dance across increasingly large canvases, leaving behind traces that are at once weighty and ethereal, imbued with profound emotion.
She creates large-scale, immersive paintings in which gestural lines evoke echoes of landscapes, bodies, movements and thoughts. Her work combines various influences and inspirations — Taoism and post-structuralism, ancient Chinese pictorial traditions, bodywork, dance, martial arts and the canon of Western art history.
Tang Contemporary Art is located at Room 201-206 of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, and opens Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 7pm.
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