Wang Guangle
Chinese artist Wang Guangle has used terrazzo tiles — the preferred floor tiles in Chinese institutional buildings — as inspiration for six years now. His early paintings were realist renderings of light hitting the pieces of polymer resin infused with flecks of marble, but eventually the artist turned his entire canvases into tiles, abstracting the images. In some of his more recent works, he imitated the tradition from his home town where elderly people put a layer of paint on their coffins each year until they die.
Wang paints layers of colorful paint in cross section, commenting on the passage of time, patience, and the inevitability of death. Though at first glance, much of his work seems minimal and simplistic, his creative process revolves around meticulous attention to detail and a painstaking methodology.
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