ARTIST WANG GUANGLE AT PACE, NY

China’s deft graphic virtuoso, just dropped his ‘Dual Color ’ and ‘Time Paintings ’ show at PACE NY. It’s dope…and very timely.

Wang Guangle 王光乐 Duo Color Time Paintings PACE New York.

Classical philosophers argued that time is not a reality, but a concept or a measure. In thermodynamics we think of time in terms of entropy. (time ows forward while the cosmos grows more chaotic). This process is mono-directional, of course. We experience life in a future-bound continuum via ‘the arrow of time,’ as disorder expands and anarchy envelopes everything.

This metaphysical absolute informs us that time, life, existence and our experiences are utterly irreversible. Time is a finite and sacred resource. Time and space are inextricably fused in what Einstein mathematically identified as ‘spacetime ’, or time as three-dimensional space integrated in a four-dimensional continuum. Frontline cosmologists have even imagined ‘multiverses’ backed by brain-bending mathematical proofs and simulations

Wang wallops us with his jubilant juxtapositions and astral graphics – mainly colliding and cascading psychotropic colorways – yellow, blue, pink and green – over his hybridized, conscious-expanding canvases. The result: time speeds up and slows down; spacetime expands and contracts with reference to the spiritual, the surreal and the visually insane