Artist(s): Ding-Yeh WANG
Date: 14 Apr - 8 Jul 2012
"Imagination” has brought us the most beautiful fantasy, while "reality" has always destroyed our beautiful imagination to the least bit. Imagination and reality, as the two major themes of the work, strike the balance between the contradictory qualities. We cannot get away from the reality which stands in front us will cruelty unless we are supported by fantasy. The beautiful but yet illusionary imagination will make our life in reality more blissful.
As our imagination encourages us to believe, “cloud” is the symbol of fantasy, poetic and romantic. While we look at the floating cloud, we almost believe that no mundane thing can confine us. Freeing ourselves from the disturbance of the reality, we are indulged in the dream woven by ourselves. In the work “The City in the Sky,” Wang invites viewers into a world of cloud through their perceptual experience. The white cloud is beautiful and poetic, as how we imagine it, through which we dream the most beautiful dream. After walking up from the dream, we still need to return to the reality." - by WANG Ding-Yeh