Luce Energia Infinito by Wang Yacheng at the Galleria dell'Accademia

This year marks the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo's birth, and on this occasion, the Galleria dell'Accademia hosts the exhibition Luce Energia Infinito (Light Energy Infinite), featuring 18 paintings by Wang Yancheng.

The French-Chinese artist declares that the intent of his works is to capture Michelangelo's spiritual energy. This energy manifests itself through explosions of color on canvas, textured brushstrokes resulting from a synthesis of East and West, gesture and meditation, matter and spirit.
In his works, the artist expresses himself with a highly personal language, drawing inspiration from the golden ratio and Renaissance perspective axes in the representation of ideal trajectories connecting the different areas of the work. He uses sometimes very large formats, where emptiness plays a fundamental role, not as an "absence" but as a space overflowing with possibilities.
In this sense, the encounter with Michelangelo's work, particularly the "unfinished" Prisons, was of great importance for the artist, who from that moment on reflected on form, interpreting it as never finished, but ever-evolving.
Wang Yancheng's gestural and abstract work reflects the lessons of European and American abstraction, Chinese landscape painting, and the relationship between humanity and the universe.

The exhibition is on display until September 21, 2025 and represents an important opportunity for the Galleria dell’Accademia to embrace contemporaneity and offer the public the opportunity to simultaneously gaze upon the past and the present.