| Wenqin Chen |
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Wenqin CHEN
Born in 1979 China
working and living between Britain and China
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| About the Artist |
I love to cast some historical event or cultural situation from the present or past. I use my emotions and intellect to create the final object. |
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Changing
05.2007 Stainless steel, red copper Length: 350cm/width: 350cm/ height: 260cm |
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In infinite universe the work takes a rule of the development of the change from material quantitative to qualitative. It displays the instantaneous shape, reflects profoundly the existence and to this kind reconsidering of phenomenon. |
Be here (Detail of Changing)
12.2006 Stainless Steel Sculpture L:36cm/W:26cm/H:90cm for each |
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Specimens
03.2007 tobacco, toughened glass, fiberglass, stainless steel Length: 400cm / Width: 60cm / Height: 220cm |
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In a transparent glass square box there are nearly 500,000 cigarettes. On the black pedestal there are many smoked cigarettes. All the cigarette in the box, because of the time, tobacco was changing: Damp, moldy, and blackening, has a qualitative change, in turn, the question mark for the issues of cigarettes and human life. |
Detail of Specimens
03.2007 tobacco, toughened glass, fiberglass, stainless steel Length: 400cm / Width: 60cm / Height: 220cm |
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Kang?! (bed)
04.2007 Waste exhaust pipe、plank、rug Length: 210/width: 190cm/ height: 90cm |
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Sculpture was made of 400 motorcycle exhaust pipe welded together, the shape form like a bed with a man lying in the middle. As this to describe the industry has been infiltrating to each part of our living, lets it tell us its significance of existence...... |
Detail of Kang?!
04.2007 Waste exhaust pipe、plank、rug Length: 210/width: 190cm/ height: 90cm |
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Up Side Down
02.2007 Bronze painted Length: 300cm/width: 300cm/ height: 450cm |
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"The bird roost does not where to be possible to seek, the leaf falls there is no root to go back to.” which is a Chinese proverb. I am thinking the most intrepid ecology sometimes also is very frail; it can be destroyed by people felling and destroying tree. This is the very funny and humorous matter, but this could be also very serious and confirmable. |
Detail of Upside Down
02.2007 Bronze painted Length: 300cm/width: 300cm/ height: 450cm |
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Burning Life Line
05.2007 Candle, iron, copper, pebble Length: 200cm/ width: 200cm/ height: 260cm |
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Pondering the time, feeling the life and experiencing the true meaning in the burning process. |
Detail of Burning Life Line
05.2007 Candle, iron, copper, pebble Length: 200cm/ width: 200cm/ height: 260cm |
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Comparison No.1
12.2008 Bronze sculpture painted and Marble L:57.5cm/ W:44cm/ D:19cm |
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Comparison No.2
12.2008 Bronze sculpture painted and Marble L:44cm/ W:33cm/ D:19cm |
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Cultural Space
2005 paper, ink, wood, stainless steel, ropes. installation L:6m/W:6./H:5m |
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Here displays a space concerning the brilliant evolution of calligraphy culture that has evolved over five thousand years (From Oracle Bone Script to Seal Script; Clerical Script; Standard Script; Semi-cursive Script and Cursive Script which are used in different period in eastern countries), exploring how viewer feels these square or line-like letters and speculates abstract art and more questions when they access the space, also the viewer is encouraged to seek clues about the meaning of human beings’ spirit and strength. |
Detail of Cultural Space
2005 paper, ink, wood, stainless steel, ropes. L:6m/W:6./H:5m |
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Your Turn
03.2008 Bronze sculpture painted L:850cm/W:850cm/H:14cm |
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Human life likes a moving chess which is forward, is to flinch, is to strive or is to give up. Statues of baby image take this to reflect patterns of human survival. |
Detail of Your Turn
03.2008 Bronze sculpture painted L:850cm/W:850cm/H:14cm |
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Life Posture No.1
08.2008 Bronze sculpture painted and Granite L:160cm/W:160cm/H:200cm |
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“LIFE POSTURE”: With ever increasing diverse social patterns and consumer groups, individual living conditions have been changing and become more diversified. My aim is that the head sculptures convey this social phenomenon, responding to a person life style and the active state of their innermost feelings. |
Standing Egg
04.2009 Stainless steel sculpture painted L:230cm/ W:230cm/ H:300cm |
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Inner power and spirit |
Life Posture No.2
09.2009 Bronze sculpture painted and wood L:130cm/W:130cm/H:55cm |
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Detail of Life Posture No.2
09.2009 Bronze sculpture painted and wood L:130cm/W:130cm/H:55cm |
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| Education and biography |
2000 BA at Arts & Design College of Fuzhou University CHINA.
2004 MA in sculpture at Southampton University UK.
1999 Attained the second prize of Harbin international snow carving competition;
2000 Designed and made relief sculpture for the China Millennium Monument;
2001 Became a member of the Professional Sculpture Committee of China,
2004 Obtained The Resident Permit in Britain as an Artist.
2003 Works showed in the Winchester Gallery in Winchester;
2004 Works solo show at FarmiloFiumano Gallery in London;
2005 Works showed at National Gallery, and so on contemporary art Gallery;
2007 "Colour of Life" Sculpture exhibition in Xiamen of China;
2007 Works showed at the Third Songzhuang Art Festival in Beijing;
2008 Work showed at Xiamen City Art Gallery;
2008 Work exhibited at Chinese Condition Art Show in China;
2008 Works showed at the Third exchange exhibition of Chinese and South Korean sculpture in Beijing.
2008 11.Works showed at the Tallinn Winter Exhibition in Estonia;
2008 Works showed at The first Cross-Strait China Cultural Industry Fair in China
2008 12.Works show at the Open Exhibition "IN COMMON" New Greenham Arts in UK; |
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