Thursday, 9 February 2012
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About the Artist
- ywei elena wang
- ywei elena wang is a young artist currently based in Shanghai. Born in Taiwan, she was raised and educated in Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, France, Ireland and Philadelphia. Her work is influenced by the great artists Zhou Brothers, Tim McFarlane, Gibran Khalil, Fernando de Szyszlo, and Antonin Artaud. She has previously worked in theatre acting with cuer2, a theatre company based in Lima, Peru. In 2009 she completed a collaborative live painting series with various artists in Philadelphia created during live jazz, electronic, hip hop and rock music performances. After returning to Asia in 2009, she has been strongly influenced by oriental contemporary masters such as Wang Ren Jie, Zhao Wuqi, Oliver Lin and Wu Hsi Chi, who's abstraction style has further inspired her calligraphy influenced brushwork and minimalist composition. Her series Encuentro is a journey of work created in Philadelphia, Taipei and Shanghai from 2007-2013, recently exhibited in Christy’s Art Gallery in Taipei and Galeria Paspartú in Barcelona.
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