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Artist Interview Series: Wang Dongling

Wang Dongling discusses his work in Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China.

Wang Dongling discusses his abstract paintings Untitled (1999), Being Open and Empty (2005), and Dark (Heaven) and Yellow (Earth) (2005), as part of the artist interview series conducted for the special exhibition Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China.

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