Chen Wan-Jen, Juan Zamora
Double Square Gallery
No.28, Lane 770, Beian Road, Taipei 104, TAIWAN
T +886 2 8501 2138 F +886 2 8501 2338
July 14 > August 22, 2020
Chen Wan-Jen and Juan Zamora Duo Exhibition "「↻」"
Presenting his first solo exhibition at Double Square Gallery, Juan Zamora adopts the theme of "Emergence of Life," and uses diverse media and expression, combined with music and design, to explore the existence of life and the idea of ecological sustainability in art practice through the triangular relationship between aesthetics, philosophy and nature. Zamora draws his creative inspiration from nature, formulating a poetically photorealistic style to bridge the distance between humankind and the natural world. His work, The Emergence of Life, comprises 64 drawings. With perceptive observation and brilliant drawing technique, he exquisitely delineates intricate and complex microscopic organisms imperceptible to the naked eye. Another work, Honger, is constituted of leaves gnawed by caterpillars. He combines the holes on the leaves with sheet music, translating nature's sounds with the device of a music box. Through this exhibition, Zamora encourages the audience to review and rethink our relationship with nature, re-establishing humanity's relationship with the natural world via connections afforded by art.
After half a year, Chen Wan-Jen presents another solo exhibition at Double Square Gallery, which features his latest work of digital collage. The exhibition title, Edge Selection, is inspired by a basic function of drawing software, which was the first technique that Chen acquired in learning image post-production—a laborious process of repeatedly selecting needed images, cutting and pasting. In the making of video, the artist must assume the role of both scriptwriter and director, diving into an oscillating process between virtuality and reality. The eponymous work, Edge Selection, continues Chen's creative approach of aerial filming and utilization of looping image. Capturing people sunbathing indoors and using matting technique he has brought to perfection, Chen aims to discuss how people cope with the new social situation and lifestyle in the period of a pandemic. According to the artist, "people look like plants properly distanced by the spatial arrangement, which not only leaves behind habitual behavior and understanding of social life in the past, but also creates an unprecedented impact in terms of what we see in daily life." The work reveals a sense of novelty in daily life: through the artist's arrangement, the sunbathing people line up in an orderly fashion, signaling the reality of a generation with its prosaic blankness.
Presenting his first solo exhibition at Double Square Gallery, Juan Zamora adopts the theme of "Emergence of Life," and uses diverse media and expression, combined with music and design, to explore the existence of life and the idea of ecological sustainability in art practice through the triangular relationship between aesthetics, philosophy and nature. Zamora draws his creative inspiration from nature, formulating a poetically photorealistic style to bridge the distance between humankind and the natural world. His work, The Emergence of Life, comprises 64 drawings. With perceptive observation and brilliant drawing technique, he exquisitely delineates intricate and complex microscopic organisms imperceptible to the naked eye. Another work, Honger, is constituted of leaves gnawed by caterpillars. He combines the holes on the leaves with sheet music, translating nature's sounds with the device of a music box. Through this exhibition, Zamora encourages the audience to review and rethink our relationship with nature, re-establishing humanity's relationship with the natural world via connections afforded by art.
After half a year, Chen Wan-Jen presents another solo exhibition at Double Square Gallery, which features his latest work of digital collage. The exhibition title, Edge Selection, is inspired by a basic function of drawing software, which was the first technique that Chen acquired in learning image post-production—a laborious process of repeatedly selecting needed images, cutting and pasting. In the making of video, the artist must assume the role of both scriptwriter and director, diving into an oscillating process between virtuality and reality. The eponymous work, Edge Selection, continues Chen's creative approach of aerial filming and utilization of looping image. Capturing people sunbathing indoors and using matting technique he has brought to perfection, Chen aims to discuss how people cope with the new social situation and lifestyle in the period of a pandemic. According to the artist, "people look like plants properly distanced by the spatial arrangement, which not only leaves behind habitual behavior and understanding of social life in the past, but also creates an unprecedented impact in terms of what we see in daily life." The work reveals a sense of novelty in daily life: through the artist's arrangement, the sunbathing people line up in an orderly fashion, signaling the reality of a generation with its prosaic blankness.
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2020.07.18 (Sat.) 15.00
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