Chen Weitong's personal exhibition "Equinox"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Chen Weiteng
- subsidy category
- Startup Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 5(2023) 4th Startup Grant
Business Overview
In his first exhibition in Taiwan in three years, artist Chen Weiteng will hold his solo exhibition "Paramita" at the Kaohsiung Municipal Museum of Art from November 9 to December 29. This exhibition, planned by curator Haruhiko So, brings together important works from Taiwan to Japan over the past 10 years. Through handwritten poetry, planar works, three-dimensional sculptures, and works using a variety of materials, he expresses deep thoughts on themes such as life, growth, and existence. The title of the exhibition, "higan," is derived from Buddhist terminology and means "the way to higan" or "the way to liberation." Through this title, Chen Wei-ting explores the boundaries between this shore and the equinox, between reality and illusion, and puts his own interpretation into the work.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, November 9, 2024 - Sunday, December 29
- Venues
- Kaohsiung Municipal Museum of Art (Kaohsiung/Taiwan)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
【Chen Wei Ting】
Born in Tainan, Taiwan. He received a master's degree in fine arts from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. As a child, he grew up surrounded by picture books and was passionate about building his own poetic world on paper. For Chen Weiting, writing is the act of capturing fragments of life, and poetry has become another form of pictorial expression.
His works mainly use acrylic paints and oil-based pastels, often accompanied by visual effects and corresponding poems. It is this poem that gives suggestive clues to the work, depicting the intersection of childhood and adult experiences, as well as the ideal utopia he sees.
In recent years, Chen Weiting's works have been widely exhibited internationally, including in New York, Hong Kong, Spain, Dubai, Thailand, and Japan. He won the 42nd Ueno Royal Museum of Art Painting Grand Prize (selected), Shibuya Awards 2021 (Grand Prize), and Shibuya Awards 2023 (Tomio Koyama Jury Award). He has also received a Arts Council Tokyo grant and a CAF Award 2022 (Japan Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art). His works are in the collections of the Libao Culture and Arts Foundation and the Taichung Dali Art Park. He is currently based in Tokyo.