Wenqin Chen

"All things are curving" is Chen Wenqin's Philosophical Viewpoints on Artistic Creation

Chen Wenqin has long been concerned about the existence of space, time, and life. Modern cosmology holds that “time does not exist”, and this concept is also embodied in its sculpture “All Things Are Curving” (2009). The work resembles an standing egg, with a stainless steel mirror reflecting everything around it, like the universe itself - without beginning or end, silently existing in a state independent of time. All phenomena in the mirror are curved, echoing the non-linear cycle of the origin "Wuji" of the universe in Eastern philosophy, as well as the extension and distortion of the "infinite" universe from the perspective of Western science. It seems to imply that the universe is both an unpredictable chaotic whole and an endless field that can be observed and described; And at this moment, it is the moment that lies between the 'Wuji' and the 'infinite', carrying all things and returning to the void.

Where there is substance, there is space. When substance moves, time is the movement of substance and records the trajectory of its motion. Humans define space and time based on their own experience of movement. In the "Time Continues in th...

CHEN Wenqin was born in 1979 in Fujian China, where he studied at the Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, Fuzhou University during 1995-1999. In Sep. 1999 he studied at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University in Beijing before going abroad for a MA degree at the Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, UK in 2003.

Exhibitions
2000 Work of “New Generation” was selected for the Science and Art exhibition at the China Art Gallery, CHINA;
2003 Installation work of “Human Civilization, Spirit and Strength” showed in the Winchester Gallery in Winchester, UK;
2004 Solo show at FarmiloFiumano Gallery in London, UK;
2006 Series works of “Perfect” showed at the Cavendish Gallery, UK;
2007 "Color of Life - the sculpture exhibition theme of human and environment” showed in Xiamen, CHINA;
2007 Work of “Will Be” showed at the Third Songzhuang Art Festival in Beijing, CHINA;
2008 Work of “Changing” was selected for the first sculpture exhibition of Fujian Province at Xiamen City Art Gallery, CHINA;
2008 Work of “Life Posture No.1” showed at the Third exchange exhibition of Chinese and South Korean sculpture in Beijing, CHINA;
2008 Work of “Comparison No.1” I showed at the Tallinn Winter Exhibition, ESTONIA;
2008 Works of “Changing”, “Up Side Down” and “Kang” showed at the First Cross-Strait China Cultural Industry Fair in Xiamen, CHINA;
2008 Work of “Life Posture No.1” show at the Open Exhibition "IN COMMON" New Greenham Arts UK;
2009 Work of “Comparison No.1” showed at the Art of Peace 2009 Exhibition, USA;
2010 Work of “Standin...