Yu Wang

My body of work attempt to replicate scenes of nature, to simulate the experience of the individual, to transform these elements into objects in the viewer's perception invading their sensory world. Nature scenes become only the characteristics of the nature depicted, not a complete image of the nature itself: a tree becomes a blur of leaves, a speck on the canvas, a line on the paper.

Influenced by Taoist, I have always been unconsciously inclined towards the idea of "the unity of man and nature", a world view that has been implicitly present in my work." According to Tao Te Ching: Man follows the laws of earth, earth follows the laws of heaven, heaven follows the laws of Tao, and Tao follows the laws of nature. It reveals the character of the entire universe and encompasses the fundamental properties of all things in space. Thus, I depict that everything in the universe is closely related to the laws of 'nature', or more precisely, Man and nature are in a relationship wherein they gaze at, merge with, strip, and resist each other. Their interactions make them who they are. Nature is a contrived concept in man’s mind, and man is equally contrived by nature. They run from nature into the safety of landscape painting, and yet the latter doesn’t exist without the former, the yin and yang expressed.


The Lily Pool 2022

Oil and rainwater on canvases 8” x 10”

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