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WANG Luyan, <Tactile Art>, C-p rint, 16.5x16.5cm x 15panels, 1988 © artist
[China]WANG Luyan Tactile Art
As one of the most important conceptual artists today, Wang Luyan has been proactively engaging in the movement of Chinese avant-garde art since its inception. He is a member of the “The Stars”, as well as “New Measurement Group” during the ’85 Art New Wave Movement. From 1988 to 1995, Wang has been fascinated with exploring the relationship between the ontology of art and the subjectivity of the artists. By eliminating the traces of the individual’s actions, and solely focusing on form, imagery and text became means of deconstruction. Touch Art transformed the material “touched” into spiritual object, which categorized the “sense of touch” independent of the physical body, where the “sense” of the physical body becomes an “intellectual” knowledge. “Touching” translates the objects into symbolic intellectual activities, where the sensible world is transferred into the rational world and becomes isolated from its ultimate goal to become “itself”, by which to engender cultural meaning. In the following decade, he has receded from public exhibitions by living independently, his drawings and writing became the mediums of his artistic thinking, accumulating large amount of conceptual resources and materials. |
