b. 1992, China
Xiyao Wang (1992, Chongqing, China) is a female artist living and working in Berlin. Renowned for her powerful, immersive paintings and distinctive use of colour and texture, she explores the toughness that comes with inner constrictions. Her work is highly informed by her personal awareness and sensitivity, combining various techniques and materials such as oil and acrylic painting, chalk, graphite and oil sticks. She seeks balance between the canvas and the body in physical displacement. Expressive multicoloured lines evoke the broadness of landscapes, movements and thoughts composing lyrical, arrangements that grace the canvas in harmonious, energetic movements, layered onto compact pastel-coloured backgrounds. Connected to both traditions of Asian and Western masters such as Cy Twombly or Willem de Kooning, she instinctively combines influences from Taoism and dance with martial arts. Brimming with energy, her large-scale works capture movement on canvas.