polar region-chen sung-chih solo exhibition
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“Polar Region—Chen Sung-chih solo exhibition” uses “polar region” to symbolize the distances that people imagine through complex combinations of various artificial materials (such as metals, mirror, papers, polystyrene, etc) to expand the vague boundary that human and matters coexist; theses compressed space-time miniatures reflect the ultimate possibility somehow strong or concealed behind low-limit materials during different process and from various angles.TRANSCRIPT
Part I 2010/7/17-8/15 Part II 2010/8/20-9/19
The delicacy of collagePolar Region—Chen Sung-chih solo exhibition
The delicacy of collageStatement of the “Polar Region—Chen Sung-chih solo exhibition”
By Chen Sung-chih
How far is the “polar region”, after all? I, like most of the people, have never been to polar region, and get the impression of the region from TV series, books or news articles. Like others, I do not think the remote land is anyhow connected to my life after all. Unknowingly, with the increasingly heated discussion on the weather issues, this progressively changing and disappearing land has led us to reflect on our existence of and change of life styles. What is “polar region”? I am not a scientist, and have limited scientific knowledge; as an artist, I believe that the topic of “polar region” and the spiritual thinking that it derives can reflect the myth that people’s pursuit is beyond nature based upon limited foundation. “Polar region”, here, is used as a satire, or a moral that returns to the basic nature.
Over the recent years, I have constantly explored these transient parts and the values that they bring through deep and remote circumstances of my personal life. I am used to choose many familiar rough raw materials and transform them into noticeable manmade windows through artistic creation. When these residuals become the scenery we stare at, a process is been introduced to abandon the “meaningful” intuitive “nature” and content perception. These incomplete fragments of “construction” and “destruction” discover the missing pieces in ordinary real-life and develop an inextricable complexity entangled between “form” and “imagination”.
“Polar Region—Chen Sung-chih solo exhibition” uses “polar region” to symbolize the distances that people imagine through complex combinations of various artificial materials (such as metals, mirror, papers, polystyrene, etc) to expand the vague boundary that human and matters coexist; theses compressed space-time miniatures reflect the ultimate possibility somehow strong or concealed behind low-limit materials during different process and from various angles.
Maybe deep inside our heart hides a piece of “polar region”; I try to put together every charming pieces in reality and also the lost territory of polar region with my intuitive heartbeat. Polar region can be an extremely beautiful and complicated place, may be also a terribly barren and simple field ground.
Polar region may be just the remote cold ends on the earth.
20100705-1 19.7x30cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 20100705-1 (sketch)”, 19.7x30cm, 2010
Installation View, in Polar Region—Chen Sung-chih solo exhibition
Installation View, in Polar Region—Chen Sung-chih solo exhibition
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2012 00705-44 39.5x5x 4cm，2010Chehen Sungg-Chih “Untitled 20100705-4 (sketch)”, 39.5x54cm, 2010
20100705-2,3,4 39.5x54cm(piece)，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 20100705-2,3,4 (sketch)”, 39.5x54cm(piece), 2010
2010-A~C 45x25x20cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 2010-A~C”, 45x25x20cm, 2010
2012020120 0-A~CC 45x45xxx25x5x25x25x20c20cm，2010CheCheCheen Sungunng-Ch-CCChihhi “ “Unttntiitli ed eded 20120120120 000 A-A~C”,C”,, 454 x25xx2255xx20cm,m, 2022201010 1
2010-A 47x35x21cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 2010-A”, Stainless steel ,Styrofoam, 47x35x21cm, 2010
2010-B 51x29x27cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 2010-B”, Stainless steel ,Styrofoam, 51x29x27cm, 2010
2010-C 48x30x37cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 2010-C”, Stainless steel ,Styrofoam, 48x30x37cm, 2010
2010-A 47x35x21cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 2010-A”(partial), Stainless steel ,Styrofoam, 47x35x21cm, 2010
201009~201011 85x115cm(piece)，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 201009~201011”, Paper, Mirror, 85x1155cm(piece), 2010
201001~202010010044 70x55cm(piece)，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 2010010 ~20~201004”, Paper, Mirror, 70x55cm(piece), 2010
201005~201007 70x7 55cm(piecce)e)，2012010010000Chen Sung-Chihh “Untitled 201005~201007”, Paper, MiMiM rrrororrorr r, r, 70x70x55c55 m(piecece),e), 2020201010010
20090105-1~9 55x70cm(piece)，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled 20090105-1~9”, Mirror, 55x70cm(piece), 2010
2002002002 901010110005-1~9(((局部局部局部部)))) 55x55x55x5x5xx70c77 m(piece)，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Unntntiititled eded ed 22002 0901909090 05-1~91~91~9~ (partialll(( ))))lll ”, ”,”, MirM ror, 5, 5, 55555x75x5x 0cm(piece), 2010
29.7x21cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled-Daily Sculptures (documents-1)-partial”, documents-drawing, 29.7x21cm, 2010
29.7x21cm，2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled-Daily Sculptures (documents-1)”, documents-drawing, 29.7x21cm, 2010
2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled-Daily Sculptures(partial(( ) l ”, Paper, Mirro,Sand/installation, dimension variable, 2010dd
2010ChChen Sn uung-Chih “Untitled-Daily Sculptures) ”, Paper, Mirro,Sand/installation, dimension variable, 2010dd
2005 (MFA)2002 (BFA)
20092008 4352007 96 Cité International des Arts2005 2005 The Townhouse Gallery2004 93 Visiting Arts, London2004
20082005 2004200320011999 1999
211020102009200820082007 Cité Internationale des Arts Gallery2006 The Townhouse Gallery2006 20200520042004 Nell’s Home2003200320012001 Showplace
20102009 202008 200820082008 ISSEY MIYAKE2008 2008 M.O.T2007 2006 CO620062006 2006 Chrissie Cotter Gallery2005 A92005 2005
2001-2009
2007 97-22006 95-22005 94-1
20072005
Chen Sung-Chih19781978 born in Nantou, Taiwan, lives and works in Taichung, Taipei, Taiwan
2010Chen Sung-Chih “Untitled-Daily Sculptures) ”, Paper, Mirro,Sand/installation, dimension variable, 2010dd
Education Background2005 M.F.A, Institute of Plastic Art, Tainan National University of The Arts, Taiwan2002 B.F.A, Department of Visual Communication Design, Chaoyung University of Technology, Taiwan
Honors2009 Artists-in-residence Program, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan2008 Artists-in-residence Program, 435 International Artist Village, Banciao, Taipei2007 Artists-in-residence Program, Cite International des Arts, Paris, France2005 Artists-in-residence Program, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2004 Selected by The Council for Cultural Affairs(Taiwan) creative industries pursue to further education program, London, UK2004 Artists-in-residence Program, the Stock 20 , Taichung, Taiwan
Awards2008 2008 Taipei Arts Award Best-selected2005 2004 Taishin Arts Award - Top 7 of Visual Arts 2003 2003 Taipei Arts Award Best-selected2002 S.A.N art creativity Sponsored Reward of S.A.N Foundation 1999 Best-selected in International Paper art
Solo Exhibitions2010 Polar Region, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei 2010 My Dear Wrinkle, Ever Harvest Art Gallery, Taipei2009 Untitled, The Quan Gallery, Taichung2008 You to Be , Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei2008 Chen Sung-Chih 2008, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei2007 Once Upon a Time, Cité Internationale des Arts Gallery, Paris2006 The Sunday Morning, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo2006 Domestic Play and Quotidian Poetry, The Stock 20, Taichung2005 Vol.7, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei 2004 Then …You See Me Like That, Sin Pin Art Space, Kaohsiung2004 The Eighth Day, Nell’s Home, Taichung2003 Dropping Body Temperature to 37.5�,Life Science Library, Taipei2003 Artificiality, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei2001 Wa-Ha Ha, Want space, Taichung2001 Search…, Showplace, Taichung
Group Exhibitions(selected)2010 Time Unfrozen, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei2009 One Day One Decade, , The Stock 20 , Taichung2008 2008 Taipei Arts Award, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Sweeties-Celebrating 20 Years of IT Park, IT Park Gallery, Taipei The Light Enters You- ISSEY MIYAKE x Young Taiwan’s Artists, ISSEY MIYAKE, Taichung Local Viewpoint- Made In TAIWAN, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei M.O.T. Salon, Museum of Tomorrow, Taipei2007 Transformation in Perception, Modern Gallery, Taichung2006 CO6 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta , Taichung City Cultural Hall, Taichung2006 Ubiquitous, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei Taipei Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei City Mambo, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney 2005 Skylight-open the new page..., Eslite bookstore, Taichung Best of 2004 Taishin Arts Award Exhibition, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi A9, Taipei2004 One more glance, IT Park Gallery, Taipei
Collections2000-2010 Juming Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art , Private collection
Grants 2008 Taipei City Government Department of Culture Affairs 2008-2 Fellowship2006 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2006-2 Fellowship2005 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2005-1 Fellowship
Public Art Projects2007 Second Police District Taichung City Police Bureau, Taichung, Taiwan2005 The Su-Min Public Health Center, Taichung, Taiwan
Part I 2010/7/17-8/15 Part II 2010/8/20-9/19
The delicacy of collagePolar Region—Chen Sung-chih solo exhibition
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Author/ Sung-Chih CHEN
Graphic Designer/ Sung-Chih CHEN
Photographer/ Sung-Chih CHEN, Yu-Che HSIAO, Tsai-Ming HU, Ming Tsung CHEN
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Publishing Date/ December 2010
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