Wang Keping incorporates the natural forms of the wood to allow for nature to guide his artistic process in his figurative and abstract sculptures while Lo’s precision is in the shaping of delicate strips of bamboo to create lyrical sinuous and almost weightless mobile sculptures. Where Wang Keping’s totems convey a fluidity of form, grain and blackened polish they carry the weight of the hard …
Wang Keping incorporates the natural forms of the wood to allow for nature to guide his artistic process in his figurative and abstract sculptures while Lo’s precision is in the shaping of delicate strips of bamboo to create lyrical sinuous and almost weightless mobile sculptures. Where Wang Keping’s totems convey a fluidity of form, grain and blackened polish they carry the weight of the hard woods he uses, Lo’s gracious balance of bamboo strokes achieve a harmonious ethereal balance within air and space. Within both of these artist’s works we can feel their incredibly pure authentic- ity …
