WANG KEPING
In the Moon

November 15 – December 21, 2024

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It is in 2021 that Wang Keping starts his collaboration with the MiniMasterpiece gallery. Questioned by Esther de Beaucé on his jewelry experience, he answers:

« The jewels that I create are like small sculptures suspended around the neck. Moving from a big house to a smaller one often involves much time to rearrange everything, sometimes you even have to get rid of some furniture. Making a small sculpture sounds easy, but the hardest part is being distinctive, having your own style and language. »

For his second solo exhibition of jewelry intitled In the moon, the famous Chinese sculptor, living in France since 1984, will present at MiniMasterpiece gallery a set of 5 unique pieces in 18k yellow gold, sterling silver and ebony, including his first ring. Uniting sensual forms and preciousness of materials, Wang Keping‘s new wearable sculptures offer visitors and future collectors an unprecedented relationship with his usually monumental work in a way combines intimacy and a reciprocal relationship with the body.

Wang Keping has always favored feminine shapes, curves and rounded shapes. As he says himself “for a sculptor, it is impossible not to be touched by the shape of the female body”. In his series of sculptures which he calls “Ex-voto”, Wang Keping pursues the path of formal simplicity in order to give the greatest poetic power to the material: buttocks, breasts, phallus, testicles, tongues… so many elementary motifs, once banned in his youth in China, which condense life’s impulses and through which the artist claims artistic freedom.

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