Description: Stainless steel sculpture, "Artificial Rock #53", created by Zhan Wang in 2002. It will present in more than one orientation.
This piece was purchased at Goedhuis a New York gallery in 2004 for $9,000.00 and the original invoice is included.
Prices for his rock sculptures have exceeded $3,000,000 USD.


History: Zhan Wang born 1962 in Beijing is a Chinese sculptor. "Zhan Wang's career as an iconoclast began with 'In a Twinkling' (1993), an installation of super realist figurative sculptures. The figures' style was not new, but the method of installation was: after creating a group of figures in poses of arrested movement, he propped them in unlikely positions outside a building, creating a surrealistic vision of a world gone awry," wrote Britta Erickson in Art Journal. He is known for being a contemporary Chinese sculptor; however, he is also known in other art forms such as installations, photography and video. His pieces consist of conceptual ideas where he “embraces and subverts several other major traditions in modern art, both Chinese and Euro-Americanâ€. Many of his works include the use of simplistic object that serve a purpose of telling a complex idea. Many of his ideas that are expressed through his works pertain to Chinese culture. In 1993, he was featured in his first exhibit and since then he has been showcased in over 125 exhibits, 24 of which were solo exhibitions. His last exhibition was "My Personal Universe" in 2012. The strangely eroded rocks long revered by Chinese scholars were typically formed through geologic processes. Connoisseurs appreciated these natural sculptures for many of the same reasons they admired calligraphy: the sense of dynamic form, energy, and the interplay of positive and negative space. Artisans also produced facsimiles of naturally occurring rocks in various materials, including jade, glass, and ceramic. Zhan extends this tradition into the present day by recreating a scholar’s rock in an industrial medium. He began by molding sheets of stainless steel around the surface of a traditional Chinese scholar’s rock, then removed these sheets, welded them together, and burnished the surface until the seams disappeared. The resulting work challenges us to redefine the parameters of tradition and to ask how tradition sustains itself by evolving in the contemporary world.

Provenance: Lorber Estate, Palm Beach, FL


Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 14 | Height(in) = 16 | Width(in) = 16 | Depth(in) = 18

Size of Artwork(in): 17.75 x 16 x 16"


Artist Name: Zhan Wang


Medium: Stainless Steel


Circa: Circa 2002

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