ART021 | Nan Ke Booth W01 Highlighted Works | Yunchun Wang

 

 Yunchun Wang

30h x 50w cm

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Yunchun Wang (b. 1999, Hangzhou, Zhejiang) graduated in 2024 from the School of Fine Arts, East China Normal University, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Wang’s works are imbued with personal philosophical reflections and emotional expression, attempting to balance the fluid boundary between abstraction and figuration, while exploring the visual world constructed by memory, imagination, and intuition. Through soft color harmonies and mysterious imagery, she creates a comfortable space for dialogue with the viewer, one that provides a distance from the material world while still engaging with it.

 

 Yunchun Wang

60h x 40w cm

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She captures seemingly insignificant yet philosophically profound moments with her brush—drawing inspiration from nature, literary works, and various cultural symbols. In the sparks of inspiration, she blends sensitivity with rationality, attempting to grasp the universal and core emotions and thoughts shared by humanity.

 

67.5h x 55w cm

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A strong sense of “semblance” pervades Wang’s works. The blurred, elusive shapes and symbols on her canvases are freely yet precisely arranged, as if they are the concretization of memory and imagination. Through meticulous observation and emotional cultivation, these images transform into visual symbols that invite dialogue with the viewer.

 

59h x 28w cm（with pendulum)

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Wang predominantly uses gentle color harmonies, often employing warm color contrasts or gradient effects to convey her delicate perception of the world. Through the interplay of color and shape, each symbol and form in her works offers multiple possibilities for interpretation. Flowing lines and soft backgrounds come together to create a dreamlike atmosphere, emphasizing the emotional trajectory that unfolds. She aims to transcend the surface appearance of the material world with these non-figurative symbols and forms, reaching for those pure, spiritual experiences that lie beyond the realm of reason.

 

42h x 49w cm

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In her creative process, Wang frequently draws inspiration from a broad cultural landscape. Literary works, cultural symbols, and even natural landscapes become triggers for her creations, imbuing her works with more layers and offering richer interpretive space. This infusion of diverse cultural elements gives her art a quality akin to literature—through hazy and abstract expression, it conveys a kind of inexpressible emotion or thought. By employing symbolic and simplified elements in her compositions, she allows the relationship between the viewer and the work to remain neither completely detached nor entirely defined. Similar to certain poetic lines in literature, her art often carries a deeper meaning beyond the visible.

 

50.5h x 30w cm

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With delicate brushwork, Wang creates an independent space that transcends the material world, echoing and interacting with her architectural approach to unconventional framing. Through visual means, she opens an unknown realm, inviting viewers to experience an internal reflection and emotional resonance that leads them to explore the self, the external world, and the shared, though subtle, resonance of the human experience.

 

Text by Roxane Fu