WANG KEPING, 2022
"Over time I became a wood specialist. It's like a human body, with its parts soft like flesh and others hard like bones. As the wood dries, it will crack, and I can anticipate its natural movements in my sculpture. Each substance reacts and cracks differently. Like people, everyone has their own personality."-Wang Keping
Wang Keping (b. 1949, Beijing) is a renowned sculptor who lives and works in France. His sculptures focus on figuration and sensuality. He works primarily in hard woods from France paying particular attention to the natural elements of the wood itself and incorporating them into his work, such as woodgrain patterns, knots, boils and branches.