Vision of Taiwan by WU Cheng-Chang
the Solo Exhibition
Date：4 Aug - 26 Aug 2019
Opening Reception + Talk：14:30-16:00, Sun, 4 Aug 2019
Venue：One Station (by the Xiangshan Station in Hsinchu)
No 1, Aly 2, Ln 347, Sec 5, Zhonghua Rd, Xiangshan Dist, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan
Gallery Hours：12:00-18:00, Thu Fri Sat Sun
Organiser：YiYi Wan
Sponsor：Cultural Affairs Bureau, Hsinchu City
https://onewetland.blogspot.com/
Statement
The “Vision of Taiwan” series of images expresses personal observations, experiences and opinions of the environment of Taiwan. “Photography” has been a means for me to find emotional relief. The photographing process, I stood inside a space and photographed myself with long exposure by flashing my face with multiple flashes using a handheld flashlight. The intense flashes enable the releasing of emotion, and the property of photosensitive materials that accumulates light and allows “over exposure” to be produced in an “out of control” manner and causes temporary “blindness” or “lost of sight” in human faces, and beyond the visual aesthetics in the visual expression form the “environmental” issues and the conflicting perception of “aesthetics” hidden behind the visual perspectives, insinuating the absurdity and conflicts that exist in the environment.
Behind the seemingly image of a beautiful scenery hides absurd objects and environmental crisis. A “human figure billboard” faces the public indifferently without any facial expressions. The face of existing environmental seems to have lost the “real world” into a vacuum of the situation, therefore one can only “look without seeing” when facing current situations in the surroundings. The “Vision of Taiwan” series offers views from the “documentary photography” aspects of recognition of the relations between humans and our surroundings and the “surrealism” aspects of calm criticism. Although it does show a certain level of disappointment and pessimism toward the current state of Taiwan’s environment, but it still holds an ideal of expectation of “life reform”.
WU, CHENG-CHANG
www.wuchengchang.com
EDUCATION
2000 M.A. in Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, U.S.A.
1992 B.A. in Graphic Communication, Chinese Culture University
WORK EXPERIENCE
2000.08-present Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual Communication Design, Ling-Tung University, Taichung, Taiwan
2000.06-2000.07 Photojournalist, Business Weekly, Taipei, Taiwan
2000.02-2000.05 Part-time photojournalist, Global Views Monthly, Taipei, Taiwan
1994.01-1997.09 Photographer, Industrial Design Department, Nan-Ya Plastics Corporation, Formosa Plastics Group, Taipei, Taiwan
1993.11-1993.12 Photojournalist, Taiwan Daily News, Taipei, Taiwan
1992.06-1993.06 Photojournalist by the Brother Pro-Baseball Magazine
SELECTED AWARDS
2014 Observer’s Award and Excellent Work Award in New Media, Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2012 Grand Prize in Creative Award of Visual Art, Li Chun-Shen Foundation of Contemporary Painting, Taiwan
2011 Grand Award, China Lishui International Photography Cultural Festival, Lishui, China
2010 Grand Prize , The Power of SELF an image competition, Artists Wanted, New York, USA
2009 Honorable Mention Award, Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Honorable Mention Award, Taiwan Photographic Art New Talent Awards, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Gold Medal Award, Taipei 101 International Photography Award, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 Honorable Mention Award, The 4th Taoyuan Creation Award, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2006 Excellent Work Award, Kaohsiung Awards in Photography, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2005 Pingtung Award, Pingtung Fine Arts Exhibition, Pingtung, Taiwan
2005 Honorable Mention Award of Photography, 58th Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition, Nantou, Taiwan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Noise - Vision of Taiwan－London Design Biennale, Somerset House, London, UK
2017 Vision of Taiwan, Industrial Technology Research Institute Art Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2014 Vision of Taiwan, Art Anew Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2013 I‧Die‧Want－Vision of Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Vision of Taiwan, HK12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, China
2012 Vision of Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2011 Vision of Taiwan II, Taiwan International Visual Arts Center（TAVAC）, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Vision of Taiwan, Fotoaura institute of photography, Tainan, Taiwan
2010 Vision of Taiwan, Open House Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Vision of Taiwan, Taiwan International Visual Arts Center（TAVAC）, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 The “Light” of Taiwan－I‧Die‧Want, Culture centre of Taichung County, Fongyuan, Taiwan
2006 Seeing and Construction, Culture centre of Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2005 Seeing and Construction, Culture centre of Pingtung County, Pingtung, Taiwan
2005 Seeing and Construction, Fnac Photogallery, Taichung and Taipei, Taiwan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Behind the Mask: Rose of Modernity, Museum Center Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2018 Taiwan Photography Now, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Rivers - The Way of Living in Transition, Asia Contemporary Art Links, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2014 Jie(Boundaries): Contemporary Art from Taiwan, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2014 The Present and Future of Japanese and Taiwanese Contemporary Art, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2012 Into Society: Critical Realism in Taiwanese Photography since 1990, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2011 China Lishui International Photography Cultural Festival, Lishui, China
2011 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA-SAFOTO International Photography Festival, San Antonio, USA
2011 Scenery and Vistas of Taiwan through the Eyes of Artists:A Century of Taiwanese Landscape and Scenic Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2011 Eye of the Times-Centennial Images of Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 The FACE: evolution of portrait in photography, State Novosibirsk Historical Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2010 YES TAIWAN: 2010 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2010 Human and natural, The 2010 2nd Dali International Photography Exhibition, Dali, China
2010 3rd Novosibirsk International Festival of Contemporary Photography, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2010 Beyond Reailty, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Beyond 20 Degree Celsius: Exhibition of “Room-temperature Luminescence” from Taiwanese Contemporary Imaging Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
COLLECTIONS
2017 Vision of Taiwan, Ministry of Culture, National Center of Photography, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Vision of Taiwan, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taichung, Taiwan
2017 Being 2016, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Vision of Taiwan, Ministry of Culture, Art Bank, Taichung, Taiwan
2015 Seeing and Construction, Ministry of Culture, Art Bank, Taichung, Taiwan
2015 Vision of Taiwan, Ministry of Culture, Art Bank, Taichung, Taiwan
2014 Vision of Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Vision of Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2013 Vision of Taiwan, Ministry of Culture, Art Bank, Taichung, Taiwan
2011 Vision of Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Vision of Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2006 Seeing and Construction, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2006 Hengchun Ancient City, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Pingtung, Taiwan
2005 Seeing and Construction, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Pingtung, Taiwan
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