Wang Keping - All smiles

Wang Keping, 王克平, is a worldwide renowned sculptor. For his first solo show ever in Shanghai the artist is presenting an unprecedented project mixing conceptual art, installation and sculpture. The All in smile poem (笑口常开 in chinese) is the inspiration for this site specific project for which Wang Keping has made 1 000 sculptures that at first can be seen as bricks. Starting from an easy shape the artist becomes an architect and renews the exhibition space, building with those bricks walls and new spaces within the space. “The bricks can be piled up and form a wall, a stacked tower, lay them out and you can fill the ground, you can also use them as a chair or table, piggy bank, flowerpots on the balcony, etc.” As art is a playful thing to Wang Keping the usage can be varied. Put the piece either indoor or outdoor, they can be installed in parks like pieces of bricks or stones...there are infinite possibilities of architectural development. “It can be piled up into a small castle, a small Great Wall, a bastion of iron” shares the artist.

Wang Keping - All smiles