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16/6/2006

Two exhibitions

Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

Chen Wenling’s Sculpture solo exhibition

1st, 2nd floor, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Chen Wenling's work presents a story in the style of a fable in a perfect world but about this era rather than a phenomenon of the ordinary people's joy.

The warrior rides a pig and fights with the R-Countenance’s courage but he doesn’t know where his enemy lies. This work presents the phenomenon of an individual’s loss and anger in modern society. It may be more inclined to the absurd phenomenon of self-existence.

The pig is an optimistic form of self-analogy in the “Blissful Life" series. The transformation from an individual’s perception to the style of a fable means that Chen has changed his focus from self-interest to the study of a group. In this series, human nature seems mutually exchangeable with the nature of pigs. For example, pigs wear clothes like people, and their actions are also reminiscent of humans, but human bodies are presented with pig like descriptions and features.

In this series, the interpretation of “Blissful Life" is in reality expressed as an extreme but entirely painless optimism. Each pig and person seems to live in a joyful state which is no past or future. Such a phenomenon is Chen Wenling’s shift toward satire directed at a consumer socialism ideology.

In fact, this brings Chen Wenling back to presenting the human realm of self-indulgence. However, such pre-religious colors are not shown as a type of pessimism, but as an optimistic secularism. That is, he attempts to insert a strong element of the self, causing this visual layout to appear still in the midst of a struggle.
About 100 sculpture works of Chen Wenling, including “Blissful Life" and other new works will be exhibited in Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art for the first time.


Son Bong-chae's works solo exhibition

3rd floor, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Landscape of the present beyond a gap of time

A series of Son Bong-chae's new works showing the landscape produced by accumulating black-and-white photograph images on transparent acryl of several layers remind us of a black-and-white photograph shown at the first page of photocopies by John Berger. The black-and-white photograph which is assumed to be taken with pinhole camera focuses on black plum on the background rather than on two people standing at the center of the picture and dim image which the whole picture seems to be moved shows a gap between the past and the present of the subject which existed before the camera for some minutes that the shutter is pressed slowly without any technical operation.

Berger recognized that the mind has another time to be distinguished from the time of body.Son Bong-chae recalls the memory of history accumulated at the time of mind through the present appearance of a specific place through the time of body - physical time.He traveled the places of special events and accidents at the southern regions of Korea from the period of Japanese imperialism and Korean war to the modern times, photographed the historical places and spots with the present appearance, transcribed the photographed images on several sheets of transparent acryl and produced another images by piling several layers of acryl.Son Bong-chae's 3-D landscapes produced by this method are varied depending on a viewpoint, vision and quantity and direction of light as if we look at the oriental painting expressed with concentration of ink and perspective.It can be also considered as the combination of plastic beauty of the west and the east that he has tried through mechanical installations and shadow works.

The present appearance of historical places at the southern regions of Korea expressed on black-and-white photographs is crude as much as a gap of time between 'the past' and 'the present'.He showed a path at a small village in Yeonggwang where slaughter of its residents was committed at the time of Korean war, bamboo forest of Damyang where the residents were killed by bamboo sword at the time of Korean war, the Mt. Jiri where the base of partisan, way to Christian hospital in Gwangju where innocent citizens and students were killed by the military at the time of May 18 Democratic Uprising.

Paul Auster said an event of the past exists the aggregate of image and memory.Son Bong-chae's landscapes fabricated on the basis of common landscape photographs like snapshots show a third landscape attracting viewers outside the landscape into the screen.


Image: Chen Wenling's Sculpture

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