2021 - Vancouver - White Rock - The Meeting – by Chinese artist Wang Shugang - 1 of 2
The impetus to visit White Rock was to check out "The Meeting" by Wang Shugang now on permanent display at the courtyard at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development.
John reluctantly offered shot scale.
Prior to their arrival in White Rock, the Bosa Properties & Vancouver Biennale's sculpture “The Meeting” – by Chinese artist Wang Shugang travelled extensively.
2007
The work was a commissioned work for the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
2008
I think the sculpture was at Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, east garden.
2009-2011
The art made its North American debut as part of the Vancouver Biennale exhibition and was displayed in Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour neighbourhood in a park adjacent the the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
2014-2016
Vancouver Biennale, The Meeting was relocated to Rey Sargent Park in the city of North Vancouver.
2017-2019
The Meeting was loaned to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for the 375th anniversary of Montreal, the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 and the 150th anniversary of Canada.
2020
The Vancouver Biennale loaned The Meeting to the Arts on the Avenue Edmonton Society, a registered non-profit charitable organization in Edmonton, Alberta.
2021
The Meeting returned to the West Coast to take up permanent residency at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development in the city of White Rock, BC.
ABOUT WANG SHUGANG:
Born in Beijing in 1960, Wang Shugang lived for ten years in Germany’s Ruhr region.
He returned to live in Beijing in 2000, at 40 years old.
Wang Shugang is one of the leading contemporary artists in the post revolutionary breakout period of the mid 1990s, referred to as Cynical Realism.
He, together with his contemporaries Yue Minjun and Ai Weiwei, playfully and astutely mocks the history and political events of the Cultural Revolution and Maoist China.
Since 1991, Wang Shugang’s works are regularly seen in solo exhibitions in Germany and China.
Wang Shugang’s figurative sculptures have been influenced by both the Western art tradition and contemporary twentieth-century realism while also expressing Buddhist iconography combined with Chinese everyday culture.
The artist generally uses only a few colours on his sculpture, painting them solid red, white, black or bronze.
These colors have become a kind of language or a trademark of the artist. Typical of the work of Wang Shugang are the red “sweeping monks” and the “squatting” figures.
2021 - Vancouver - White Rock - The Meeting – by Chinese artist Wang Shugang - 1 of 2
The impetus to visit White Rock was to check out "The Meeting" by Wang Shugang now on permanent display at the courtyard at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development.
John reluctantly offered shot scale.
Prior to their arrival in White Rock, the Bosa Properties & Vancouver Biennale's sculpture “The Meeting” – by Chinese artist Wang Shugang travelled extensively.
2007
The work was a commissioned work for the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
2008
I think the sculpture was at Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, east garden.
2009-2011
The art made its North American debut as part of the Vancouver Biennale exhibition and was displayed in Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour neighbourhood in a park adjacent the the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
2014-2016
Vancouver Biennale, The Meeting was relocated to Rey Sargent Park in the city of North Vancouver.
2017-2019
The Meeting was loaned to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for the 375th anniversary of Montreal, the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 and the 150th anniversary of Canada.
2020
The Vancouver Biennale loaned The Meeting to the Arts on the Avenue Edmonton Society, a registered non-profit charitable organization in Edmonton, Alberta.
2021
The Meeting returned to the West Coast to take up permanent residency at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development in the city of White Rock, BC.
ABOUT WANG SHUGANG:
Born in Beijing in 1960, Wang Shugang lived for ten years in Germany’s Ruhr region.
He returned to live in Beijing in 2000, at 40 years old.
Wang Shugang is one of the leading contemporary artists in the post revolutionary breakout period of the mid 1990s, referred to as Cynical Realism.
He, together with his contemporaries Yue Minjun and Ai Weiwei, playfully and astutely mocks the history and political events of the Cultural Revolution and Maoist China.
Since 1991, Wang Shugang’s works are regularly seen in solo exhibitions in Germany and China.
Wang Shugang’s figurative sculptures have been influenced by both the Western art tradition and contemporary twentieth-century realism while also expressing Buddhist iconography combined with Chinese everyday culture.
The artist generally uses only a few colours on his sculpture, painting them solid red, white, black or bronze.
These colors have become a kind of language or a trademark of the artist. Typical of the work of Wang Shugang are the red “sweeping monks” and the “squatting” figures.