Wang Yan Cheng was born in 1960 in Guadong, China, and lives and works in the Paris region. Since his solid, classical training at the Shandong Fine Arts School in China, from which he graduated in 1978 to become a professor and lecturer in 1995, success has accompanied Wang Yan Cheng in his career: secretary of the World Chinese Artist in 1996, then China's official representative for the Plastic Arts Association at UNESCO in 2002.
Today, as a result of a slow evolution in his plastic art, and a process of reflection parallel to daydreaming, Wang Yan Cheng translates a singularly silent world in which the faded stages of memory, the fascination for buried vestiges and the omnipresence of temporal dust are interpenetrating. He reduces the mental opposition between space and time to a luminous moment of creative jubilation. A sensual fulgurance, immediate and indefinable. The artist focuses more on the fractures of time, on its possible reversibility.
In Western still lifes, time is frozen once and for all; in the work of this Chinese artist, it still floats and erodes into dust of light, in a sensitive indeterminacy. Wang Yan Cheng's refined harmony of composition, at the confluence of Western painting and Chinese pictorial traditions, is a highly original plastic synthesis. His grammar of forms opens up a universe of rare beauty and delicate spirituality.
Numerous exhibitions in Europe and Asia and purchases by museums have demonstrated the evolution of his painting. Excellent auctions have confirmed collectors' interest.
A Franco-Chinese master of Lyrical Abstraction, Wang Yan Cheng is today considered the undisputed successor to Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun.
Galerie des Tuiliers organized solo exhibitions of his work in 2007, 2009 and 2010, and contributed to the publication of a book on Wang Yan Cheng's exhibition at the Musée du Montparnasse in 2010.
This year, Wang Yan Cheng joins the prestigious world-renowned art gallery Aquavella, present in Hong Kong and New York.
He also took part in ArtBasel Hong Kong from March 23 to 25, 2016.
In 2017, he will exhibit at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum of China in Beijing. Then, at the Musée Picasso in Antibes.