王昶个展《天机图》在NUOVO开幕(2)

In Wang Chang's creation, we can fully identify the power of this painting, in his grand cosmological framework, the meaning of experience and transcendental experience are fully and clearly expressed by the artist with his unique language. The title of the exhibition is an interpretation of the cosmological view of Wang Chang's works, which is both astronomical and metaphysical numerology, natural spirit and secret providence.

Therefore, "Heavenly Chance Map" is an interpretation of Wang Chang's works, such as the exhibition work "Bo Bureau Map", Bo bureau means a chessboard, and the chessboard is also the collection of all laws, humanity, will, in the chess game can also be insight into the heavenly chance. "Nangong Wei" comes from the Heavenly emperor's palace is too small, too small wall is also called the Nangong, and the word latitude has multiple meanings, with the star related one is the latitude in the longitude, meaning the north-south dividing line, and the other can refer to the five planets.

"Stars · Xuanji" and "Stars · Yuheng", Xuanji and Yuheng were originally instruments for observing the sky in ancient times, and then Xuanji became a collective name for the four stars of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji and Tianquan in the first four stars of the Big Dipper, and Yuheng was the fifth star after the four stars. The sum of all the stars is the celestial machine, the overall description of the stars is the celestial machine map, and the more crucial meaning is that the celestial machine map is not only the pictorial description of the celestial objects, but also the derivation of the concept of the universe.

The corpse in the pre-Qin dynasty said, "The four sides up and down said Yu, to the ancient and today said." The present, past and future of time, as well as the four directions of space, are all included in the macro structure of Wang Chang's artistic expression, which is traditional, contemporary, Oriental, and global, grand and micro.

All this comes from the artist Wang Chang, who has been quietly and firmly looking for a different artistic path. His style, composition, color, lines, techniques, as well as his precise control of his personal painting language, without teachers or friends, sometimes reminds us of Morandi, an outlier in Western art history, who is no one like him before him. After him, there is no one like him, he is a lone case in the star of art, but also a lone pine on the top of the mountains. Like a lone star in the night sky, it constantly emits its own persistent light. Wang Chang is such an artist, he is so self-unique, different, "not before the ancients, not after the comers", but no one need to weep for this, because we are all witnesses of art.

Wang Chang's exhibition "Sky Machine Map" will be extended until November 18.