"The Iron Boxes from the Eternal Smile series is a breakthrough of my ongoing exploration of wood carving, it presents the same underlying idea with the use of a different medium. This is an extension or evolution of my work through a change of material, rather than a change of my creative direction.

The iron boxes can stand or by flat. It shows a horizontal mouth or a vertical mouth. It's elegant as well as humorous. A circle sits within the square, a square outside the circle: both soft and hard, abstract yet figurative. It has surfaces and dimensions, both curves and lines. It contains art as well as philosophy irony and humanity. It has technology. architecture, and endless possibilities. It has Zen and Taoism created with concept and construction. It is avant-garde, modernism and contemporary. Somehow it is also post-modernism. It is everything."— Wang Keping

Born in Beijing in 1949, Wang Keping is one of the founders of the first non-conformist artist's group "THE STARS" (XING XING) which was formed in 1979 during the post-cultural revolution "Beijing Spring," He has been living in Paris since 1984. His works have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Musee Maillol, Paris, The Musee Zadkine, Paris, The Saatchi Gallery, London, The He Xiangning Museum, China, The Fukuoka Museum, Japan to name a few.

Katie de Tilly and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in honour of ART HK 11 presents
WANG KEPING: ETERNAL SMILE
Cocktail reception on Monday, May 23rd 6:00-8:00pm
Opening remarks by Sir David Tang, K.B.E., at 7:00 pm