WANG Shuye (1963-) was
born in Heilongjiang, China. After graduating from the Central Academy of Craft
Art (now renamed the Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University), he
settled in Japan. WANG is internationally recognized as an artist who
simultaneously presents new forms and profound content. Pursuing philosophical
depth in painting through a series titled A Space-Time Nude: Identical, the artist seeks
a philosophical dimension in art. WANG believes that what we see and feel are
not absolute sensations but rather human sensations. The way bees, moths, bats,
and dolphins perceive the world differs from ours. We cannot definitively
determine which perspective gets us closer to the essence of things. What we
see is merely a human perspective. The artist aims to use visual reasoning to
approach the essential perspective, or divine vision, and capture it in his
artwork, depicting the existence that precedes our cognition. WANG Shuye
abstracts the primal forms of four-dimensional spacetime, including forests,
trees, caves, riverbanks, and indoor spaces. He describes this as
"directly confronting spacetime." The artist often portrays objects
in wave-like shapes, where everything blends and becomes one within the waves.
Objects (phenomena and relationships) do not exist as fixed entities; they
constantly change, existing temporarily and then flowing away somewhere else. WANG
Shuye vividly reveals this fact through his artwork, emphasizing that existence
is sustained only through relationships with others and is temporarily present
before flowing elsewhere.