Wenqin Chen

"All things are curving" is CHEN Wenqin’s artistic creation philosophy.

Chen Wenqin has always focused on the themes of space, time, and life. Modern cosmological theory posits that time does not exist in the universe; there is no time to speak of. This idea is reflected in the sculpture "All things are curving" (2009). Shaped like a standing egg, its stainless steel mirror surface reflects everything in the universe, embodying the boundlessness of the cosmos. Without a beginning or an end, without a starting point or an ending symbol, it exists perpetually in its own state, independent of time. Yet, it reveals that all things refracted are curved and that it occupies space in the present moment.

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 movement. In the "Time Continues in the Space of Movement" (2010) series, Chen Wenqin named each sculpture with English gerunds to convey the eternal movement of substance. Time, in these works, records the infinite trajectory of spatial movement, and the sculptures represent a state of perpetual motion, transcending time and space.

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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. Since 2007 he has been teaching in Xiamen University. His academic pursuit, he bases in the Chinese culture and pursue an understanding of the western world and its culture with a main focus in contemporary western art.

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 Wor...