New Members Proscription series Wood, acrylic 6”x6”x6”
Xinggang Wang /// Proscription lends itself to discussion in terms of positive and negative, as the series is inherently comprised of positive and negative elements. In this series, Xinggang Wang has sculpted the forms of a worker, farmer, businessman, scholar, soldier and an official, each of which has carved in it empty drawers that can be pulled out. It is precisely the space in these drawers that creates the negative in these sculptures. Such treatment of space is quite uncommon in contemporary sculpture. What do the empty drawers imply? 56.