Wang Tiande, born in Shanghai in 1960, graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting and the Department of Calligraphy of the China Academy of Art (originally the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts) with a Ph.D. in calligraphy. He currently serves as a professor at Fudan University.
Using incense burning that ingeniously joins layers of landscape work and ink paper, he creates a new pictorial language and re-conceives traditional Chinese ink art. The juxtaposition between landscape forms and ancient ink rubbings generates a conceptual mode of contemporary Chinese ink. Meanwhile, the integration of different elements reflects the aesthetic sensibility of Chinese artistic traditions.