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中誠2024年春季拍賣「現代與當代藝術」
CHANG TENGYUAN ( b.1983 )
2021
6.8 x 19 x 28 cm
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Tengyuan Chang, born in 1983 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is a graduate of the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts. He gained recognition in Taiwan's emerging art scene with his original character "Parrotman." He has won several prestigious awards, including the "Kaohsiung Art Award," the "Taipei Art Award Excellence Prize," and the "Taishin Arts Award." His works have been exhibited in London, Singapore, and Tokyo, and are part of the collections of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Tengyuan Chang often employs a mobile perspective, combining traditional Chinese landscape painting with apocalyptic imagery to create a futuristic world that feels both familiar and strange to viewers. To give his work a unique, bizarre, and absurd worldview, he uses the characteristics of various media to create a digital aesthetic that is sometimes flat and sometimes three-dimensional. He also uses symbolic painting techniques, like the brush strokes of landscape painting, the light beams of classical religious paintings, and comic book-style lines and text. This multidimensional impact effect emphasizes his unique style, reminiscent of a modern-day "Shan Hai Jing."
Since 2012, he began creating the Parrotman series, which tells the story of the "Parrotman," an alien species that comes to Earth to study its remnants after an apocalypse. By setting the timeline in the future, post-apocalypse, he invites viewers to reflect on contemporary society through the misunderstandings that arise as the Parrotman examines Earth's remains from a fresh perspective. This subjective-objective dual role allows audiences to re-examine the current state of society and its issues.