{"id":2552,"date":"2015-04-15T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/artist\/wang-qingsong-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:11:25","slug":"wang-qingsong","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/wang-qingsong\/","title":{"rendered":"Wang Qingsong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wang Qingsong<\/strong> is born in Hubei Province, China. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu, Sichuan. He lives and works in Beijing. Wang Qingsong\u2019s works are typical of satirical parody, and were influenced by the 90\u2019s works of French artists Pierre and Gilles that place the artistes as actors in different pop culture scenarios.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wang\u2019s works include <em>The Thinker<\/em> and <em>1000-Hand-Soliciting,<\/em> with the latter one imitating a Buddhist follower in meditation. He has the posture and expression of someone praying, but on his chest is carved a McDonald\u2019s symbol and in his hand a name brand objet, expressing a kind of \u00abworship\u00bb of name brands. It also makes clear the way in which consumer culture changes not only outer appearances, but also people\u2019s inner spirits and beliefs. Wearing only striped underpants and sitting on a leaf of cabbage that sits on a trashcan, he becomes a blasphemous and farcical symbol of the kind of worship of wealth typical of peasants who get rich quickly. The other works of Wang Qinsong directly emulate the scenarios of instant gratification and endless consumption that have become the <em>National Lifestyle<\/em> in China: female models dressed up in cheap and pornographic costumes encircling the artist and his male friends, who are dressed up.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Qingsong is born in Hubei Province, China. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu, Sichuan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1782,"template":"","artist_cat":[225],"class_list":["post-2552","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}