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From: art gallery report
Category: Art
Date: 28 February 2005
Wang's paintings are a whole lot better than the last time I saw them, but that's the way it should be, but most artists are content to churn out the sameold. Wang's works are big and look like abstract expressionism from a distance, when you look closer that have sort of oriental squiggles with fine lines drawn, futuristic dot patterns, and some figurative stuff like birds and waterfalls, as well as the drips and pours of Pollocks et al. All good, and entrancing to look at, with a nice freedom and lots of ambition. The paint surface can be it dull and some of the colour choices betray a lack of sensitivity. The blacker one in a room of it's own was my favourite, less meretricious and more brooding than the others. At the moment there seems to be a taste for painting that straddles the gestural energy of abstraction and the fascination of figuration (Cecily Brown, Daniel Richter, even Christian Ward spring to mind) and Wang is up there fighting out the territory with them.
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