Yancheng
Wang

Born in 1960 in the Guangdong province of China, Wang Yancheng arrived in Paris in 1989 to improve his knowledge of Western painting. At the Shandong Academy of Fine Arts, he learned, among other things, the technique of oil painting, which, as it requires great patience, freed him from the codifications of traditional Chinese painting. In this way, he became a painter of abstraction, skilfully blending the two very distinct cultures of East and West. He lives and works in between Paris and Pekin. 

Today, Wang Yancheng is one of the Franco-Chinese representatives of lyrical abstraction, considered to be the successor of Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun. He combines the finesse, sensitivity, and skilful movement inherited from Asian calligraphy with the materials and freedom of expression drawn from the Western culture of abstraction. 

In 2020, he presents two personal exhibitions at the Academy of Arts and Design in Florence and at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.