Chen Wen Ling

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Chen Wen Ling , also Chen Wenling ( Chinese  陈文 令 ; * 1969 in Anxi (Quanzhou) , China ), is a Chinese sculptor of neorealism.

life and work

From the series Red memory , Hong Kong Arts Center, 2013 (different views of 陳文 令 Chen WenLing , Arts Center Wan Chai, Hong Kong) .

Chen Wen Ling comes from a poor background and studied at the Faculty of Sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

He achieved international fame with a multitude of provocative and often grotesque, sometimes surreal works such as the Red Memory series (consisting of around one hundred individual pieces), in which he created playful naked boys with Chinese features and exaggeratedly long extremities, which he monochrome with shining lighter red paint coated. He showed some of these works in numerous cities in China such as Chengdu , Xi'an and Shanghai , but also repeatedly in Sydney, Australia, and in Perth . Other of his series are titled China Scene and Happy Life .

With his work, Chen Wen Ling wants to show the increase in consumption in China today and the tension with its stricter communist past. He exhibits worldwide and lives and works in Beijing. Chen Wen Ling is married with three children.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 - Fable of Duration , Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
  • 2019 - Sydney Contemporary (art fair), Sydney
  • 2011 to 2017 - represented several times at the Sculpture by the Sea Festival , Sydney
  • 2008 - China: Facing Reality , National Art Museum of China, Beijing
  • 2008 - Beijing-Athens Contemporary Art From China , Technopolis, Athens
  • 2007 - Floating: New Generation of Art in China , The National Art Museum of Korea, Seoul
  • 2006 - Red Memory , solo exhibition, Ode to Art, Singapore
  • 2006 - Made in China , Padova
  • 2006 - In the Name of Material , Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Sculpture, HSS Art Center Shanghai
  • 2006 - 38th art exhibition , Basel
  • 2006 - Hyperdesign , Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
  • 2006 - Chinese Art Today , Chinese Art Museum, Beijing
  • 2005 - Ground Reality , Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul
  • 2005 - Time of Sea , International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai
  • 2004 - Happy Life , solo exhibition, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen
  • 2003 - Chinese Sculpture Masterpieces Exhibition , Beijing International Biennale, Beijing
  • 2002 - 21st China Art Triennial , Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangdong
  • 2001 - Sculpture Show , Shanghai Young Artists Exhibition, Normal University of Shanghai
  • 1991 - Chen Wen Ling's Woodcarving Exhibition , Xiamen College of Art, Xiamen

literature

  • Peter Weibel , Gregor Jansen : Thermocline of art. New Asian waves. Center for Art and Media , 2007. 323 pp.
  • Zhongguo mei shu guan: Metropolis Now. A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art. , Meridian International Center (Washington, DC), China. Embassy (US). Meridian International Center, 2009. pp. 195, 196.

Web links

Commons : Chen Wen Ling  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chen Wenling. In: White Rabbit. Contemporary Chinese Art Collection.
  2. ↑ a b Lecture: Chen Wen Ling. In: sagg.info
  3. ↑ a b Chinese artist Chen Wenling upsized his sculptures for more to enjoy . In: The Straits Times, August 31, 2017.
  4. ↑ Chen Wenling (Chinese, born 1969). In: artnet
personal data
SURNAME Chen, Wen Ling
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chen, Wenling; 陈文 令 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Anxi (Quanzhou) , China