Fu Wenjun
Fu Wenjun (Chinese: 傅文俊; pinyin: Fù Wénjùn, born 1955) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is a contemporary artist who works on conceptual photography, installation art and oil painting. Currently he lives and works at Chongqing.[1]
Main exhibitions
Main solo exhibitions
- 2010: Spirit Icon, Old Summer Palace, Beijing.[2]
- 2010: Story of Two Parks, Chongqing Library, Chongqing.
- 2010: Show of Formality II, Move the Old Summer Palace 1400 km South, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai.[3]
- 2010: Show of Formality, Fu Wenjun’s Photographic Exhibition of Historical Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing.[4]
- 2013: Thought Reading, Fu Wenjun Conceptual Photography Exhibition, Miami, FL.
- 2014: Conceptual photographic show of Illusory Metamorphoses grass cloth collection, Miami, FL.
- 2015: Photographic Narrative, Fu Wenjun’s Conceptual Photography Solo Exhibition. United Nations Headquarters, New York City, FL.[5]
- 2015: 迷思之像Thoughtful images. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; 1–14 October 2015.[6]
Main collective exhibitions
- 2009: 36th Rendez Vous a Paris, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées and Musée du Louvre, Paris.
- 2009: 35th Japan AJAC Yokohama International Overseas Artists Exhibition, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama.
- 2010: Salon des Indépendants, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris.
- 2010: Welding, International Tour Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Art in the first ten years of the 21st Century, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Hague.[7]
- 2012: Conceptual Renewal: A Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing[8]
- 2013: International Heritage Show, Carrousels du Louvre, Paris.[9]
- 2013: Voice of the Unseen Chinese Independent Art 1979/Today, collateral exhibition of Venice Art Biennale[10] 2013, Venice.
- 2014: Tour Eiffel La Grande Exposition Universelle, Paris, France.[11]
- 2014: 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.[12]
- 2014: Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA.[13]
- 2015: XVIII Bienal de Cerveira, Cerveira, Portugal.[14]
- 2015: Nord Art 2015, Büdelsdorf, Germany.[15]
- 2015: Milan Image Art Fair (MIA), Milan, Italy.[16]
- 2015: X Florence Biennale, Florence (Italy)[17]
- 2015: 1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou (China)[18]
- 2016 11th Rome International Biennale of Art, Rome, Italy.[19]
- 2016: Biennale Riviera del Brenta, Venice (Italy)[20]
- 2016: The Working of Non-Figurative System, Right View Art Museum, Beijing (China) [21]
- 2016: Peninsula Fine Arts Center Biennial 2016, Peninsula Fine Arts Center (USA) [22]
- 2016: Triennale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Verona (Italy) [23]
Main work's presentation
Thoughtful Images 204-2015 - Fu Wenjun tells us, through idiomatic images, about questions which are as old as human species. Doubts and realities which grip mankind since ancient times, but which are at the same time really actual reality, a reality proved by using arcane signs, violently projected and sounded out, but still preserving integrity. We are talking about signs which are impressed in the general unconscious. That means that, beyond their historical value, they own an absolute and unconscious existence, innately associated to a concept, also in the unspoilt minds.[24]
Pick at Random 2012 – The symbols of various cultures are juxtaposed, in order to create new meanings by making use of different art languages from different times and places.
Totem 2012 – Through the use of the newest multimedia montage, the visual effect of this work is extreme. The multimedia artistic language makes the work’s display and its transmission different from the medium itself, so the perceived relationship between the subjective viewer and the objective photography is changed. ---Luo Yiping, Curator of the Guangdong Museum of Art[25]
Story of Expo Park 2013 – In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance (the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, France, the United States, Japan, Italy and Austria) invaded China, leading to the tragedy that happened at the Summer Palace. After more than one hundred years, they came again to China and built their national pavilions in Shanghai Expo Park. In this work, the ruins of the Summer Palace are juxtaposed with their national pavilions; the open notebook seems like a history book, recording and telling the great changes in its history. It shows that China has released the heavy cultural burden, has formed a new national and cultural attitude of self-confidence due to the contact with the new world.[26]
Thought Reading 2010–2011 – The radiography technology is used to imitate the human body’s skull image, in order to present ideas in the human head. Buddhist sculptures take the place of the contents of the brain tissue, which makes the work present the superposition of the fictional with the authentic.
Echo 2009 – In this work, the Chinese national emblem is added to photos of obsolete buildings and industrial installations, with speckled colors. This refers to the disappearance of the cultural subjectivity under the control of national authoritarianism in the industrial civilization.[27]
References
- ↑ About Fu Wenjun
- ↑ Fu Wenjun personal exhibition at the Old Summer Palace
- ↑ Fu Wenjun exhibition:Move the Old Summer Palace 1400 km South
- ↑ FU WENJUN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL CONCEPTION (solo)
- ↑ The Opening of Fu Wenjun's Solo Exhibition Photographic Narrative
- ↑ 傅文俊抽象摄影展即将登陆广东美术馆, 中国日報, 22 September 2015.
- ↑ Fu Wenjun’s Exhibitions, CQNEWS, 13 July 2015.
- ↑ The Opening at Si Shang Art Museum of Conceptual Renewal: A Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photography
- ↑ Culture Belief & Intangible Culture Relics
- ↑ Zhang Yi (28 March 2013). "Chongqing artists set off to Venice". Chongqing News. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ↑ LA GRANDE EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE:IN MOSTRA DENTRO LA TOUR EIFFEL
- ↑ The Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina
- ↑ Fu Wenjun at Art Palm Beach 2014
- ↑ XVIII participant artists
- ↑ Fu Wenjun: Nord Art 2015
- ↑ Milan Image Art Fair Fu Wenjun
- ↑ Award winning artist
- ↑ Preview Aisa Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial with Fu Wenjun's work image
- ↑ Fu Wenjun be invited to participate at 11th Rome International Biennale of Art
- ↑ Participant artists of Biennale Riviera del Brenta
- ↑ Fu Wenjun’s non-figurative artistic expression under the Oriental philosophy thinking
- ↑ Fu Wenjun at Peninsula Fine Art Center 2016 Biennial
- ↑ Triennale dell’Arte di Verona, un viaggio tra gli artisti più illustri degli ultimi decenni
- ↑ Thoughtful Images—Fu Wenjun’s Abstract Photography Exhibition
- ↑ China Southwest Airlines, December 2012, pp. 105–106
- ↑ Wang Chunchen, The New World Has Come, Chinese Art, No.1, 2012, pp. 12–21
- ↑ Fu Wenjun, The Most Important Thing Is Critical Thinking, Art Tip-Top, No. 5, 2012, pp. 46–51
External links
- Fu Wenjun’s Website
- of Acclaimed Chinese Artist Fu Wenjun with American Writer Stacy Conde
- Voice of the Unseen
- Nordart 2015