Fu Wenjun

Fu Wenjun

Fu Wenjun (Chinese: 傅文俊; pinyin: Fù Wénjùn, born 1955) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is a contemporary artist who works on conceptual photography, installation art, sculpture and oil painting. Currently he lives and works at Chongqing.[1] He has developed the unique “digital pictorial photography” style.[2]

Main exhibitions

Main solo exhibitions

  • 2010: Spirit Icon, Old Summer Palace, Beijing.[3]
  • 2010: Story of Two Parks, Chongqing Library, Chongqing.
  • 2010: Show of Formality II, Move the Old Summer Palace 1400 km South, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai.[4]
  • 2010: Show of Formality, Fu Wenjun’s Photographic Exhibition of Historical Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing.[5]
  • 2013: Thought Reading, Fu Wenjun Conceptual Photography Exhibition, Miami, FL.
  • 2014: Conceptual photographic show of Illusory Metamorphoses grass cloth collection, Miami, FL.
  • 2015: Photographic Narrative, Fu Wenjun’s Conceptual Photography Solo Exhibition. United Nations Headquarters, New York City, FL.[6]
  • 2015: 迷思之像Thoughtful images. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; 1–14 October 2015.[7]
  • 2017: Harmony in Diversity Fu Wenjun’s Digital Painting Photography Exhibition. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.[8]
  • 2017: Introspection of Soul Artistic Expression in the Digital Pictorial Photography of Wenjun Fu. Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain[9]

Main collective exhibitions

Main work's presentation

Thoughtful Images 2014-2015 - Fu Wenjun tells us, through idiomatic images, about questions which are as old as human species. Doubts and realities which grip mankind since ancient times, but which are at the same time really actual reality, a reality proved by using arcane signs, violently projected and sounded out, but still preserving integrity. We are talking about signs which are impressed in the general unconscious. That means that, beyond their historical value, they own an absolute and unconscious existence, innately associated to a concept, also in the unspoilt minds.[32]

Pick at Random 2012 – The symbols of various cultures are juxtaposed, in order to create new meanings by making use of different art languages from different times and places.

Totem 2012 – Through the use of the newest multimedia montage, the visual effect of this work is extreme. The multimedia artistic language makes the work’s display and its transmission different from the medium itself, so the perceived relationship between the subjective viewer and the objective photography is changed. ---Luo Yiping, Curator of the Guangdong Museum of Art[33]

Story of Expo Park 2013 – In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance (the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, France, the United States, Japan, Italy and Austria) invaded China, leading to the tragedy that happened at the Summer Palace. After more than one hundred years, they came again to China and built their national pavilions in Shanghai Expo Park. In this work, the ruins of the Summer Palace are juxtaposed with their national pavilions; the open notebook seems like a history book, recording and telling the great changes in its history. It shows that China has released the heavy cultural burden, has formed a new national and cultural attitude of self-confidence due to the contact with the new world.[34]

Thought Reading 2010–2011 – The radiography technology is used to imitate the human body’s skull image, in order to present ideas in the human head. Buddhist sculptures take the place of the contents of the brain tissue, which makes the work present the superposition of the fictional with the authentic.

Echo 2009 – In this work, the Chinese national emblem is added to photos of obsolete buildings and industrial installations, with speckled colors. This refers to the disappearance of the cultural subjectivity under the control of national authoritarianism in the industrial civilization.[35]

A Wind from Yesterday 2016-2017 - In the series A Wind from Yesterday, Fu Wenjun superposes the images of a page made from woodblock printing in Song Dynasty and the euphrates poplar, leading the nature and the civilization to set each other off beautifully. Both of the two objects have gone through the test of a long time, so as symbols of time can evoke people’s nostalgia towards the ancient era. The works embody a taste that is very close to the “classic elegance” proposed by the modern Chinese scholar Wang Guowei. This scholar regarded the “classic elegance” as a very special interest in the Chinese aesthetics. A Wind from Yesterday represents one of the few photography works that can give expression to this Chinese aesthetic spirit. (By Peng Feng, Professor at Peking University School of Arts and curator of the Chinese Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia)[36]

Harmony in Diversity 2016-2017 - Harmony in Diversity can be seen as a variant of A Wind from Yesterday, in which Fu Wenjun replaced the euphrates poplar with the superposition of Western classic sculptures and Chinese ancient paintings. Then the dialogue between nature and civilization has developed into the dialogue between Chinese and Western culture. It is evident that they represent two completely different aesthetic ideals: the Western sculptures pursue a perfect form, while the Chinese paintings adore a light and intangible spirit. But with the superposition processed by Wenjun, they don’t appear to be inharmonious. In his own special way, the artist interprets the harmony in diversity, which represents a wisdom contributing to the continuous development of Chinese civilization and can untie the hard knot of culture diversity and clash of civilizations. (By Peng Feng, Professor at Peking University School of Arts and curator of the Chinese Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia)[37]

Collection

His artworks are collected by Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, National Art Museum of China,[38] Today Art Museum, the Old Summer Palace Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Kennedy Family, World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, [[Dazu Grotto Museum, Chongqing Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts of France, Egypt Ahmed Shawki Museum and other significant organizations and collectors.

References

  1. ↑ About Fu Wenjun
  2. ↑ Chinese artist Fu Wenjun’s “digital painting photography” at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing – in pictures
  3. ↑ Fu Wenjun personal exhibition at the Old Summer Palace
  4. ↑ Fu Wenjun exhibition:Move the Old Summer Palace 1400 km South
  5. ↑ FU WENJUN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL CONCEPTION (solo)
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-18. Retrieved 2016-02-01. The Opening of Fu Wenjun's Solo Exhibition Photographic Narrative
  7. ↑ 傅文俊抽象摄影展即将登陆广东美术馆, 中国日報, 22 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Harmony in Diversity: Fu Wenjun's Digital Painting Photography Exhibition
  9. ↑ Wenjun Fu en el Museu Europeu d'Art Modern
  10. ↑ Fu Wenjun’s Exhibitions, CQNEWS, 13 July 2015.
  11. ↑ The Opening at Si Shang Art Museum of Conceptual Renewal: A Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photography
  12. ↑ Culture Belief & Intangible Culture Relics
  13. ↑ Zhang Yi (28 March 2013). "Chongqing artists set off to Venice". Chongqing News. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  14. ↑ LA GRANDE EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE:IN MOSTRA DENTRO LA TOUR EIFFEL
  15. ↑ The Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina
  16. ↑ Fu Wenjun at Art Palm Beach 2014
  17. ↑ XVIII participant artists
  18. ↑ Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine. Fu Wenjun: Nord Art 2015
  19. ↑ Milan Image Art Fair Fu Wenjun
  20. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2016-02-01. Award winning artist
  21. ↑ Preview Aisa Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial with Fu Wenjun's work image
  22. ↑ Fu Wenjun be invited to participate at 11th Rome International Biennale of Art
  23. ↑ Participant artists of Biennale Riviera del Brenta
  24. ↑ Fu Wenjun’s non-figurative artistic expression under the Oriental philosophy thinking
  25. ↑ Fu Wenjun at Peninsula Fine Art Center 2016 Biennial
  26. ↑ Triennale dell’Arte di Verona, un viaggio tra gli artisti più illustri degli ultimi decenni
  27. ↑ Artists at Biennale Internazionale d’Arte del Mediterraneo
  28. ↑ London Art Biennale
  29. ↑ Triennale di Roma
  30. ↑ Newpaper Gulf Today
  31. ↑ ARTMUC
  32. ↑ Thoughtful Images—Fu Wenjun’s Abstract Photography Exhibition
  33. ↑ China Southwest Airlines, December 2012, pp. 105–106
  34. ↑ Wang Chunchen, The New World Has Come, Chinese Art, No.1, 2012, pp. 12–21
  35. ↑ Fu Wenjun, The Most Important Thing Is Critical Thinking, Art Tip-Top, No. 5, 2012, pp. 46–51
  36. ↑ Peng Feng: Forward for Fu Wenjun solo exhibition at National Art Museum of China
  37. ↑ Peng Feng: Forward for Fu Wenjun solo exhibition at National Art Museum of China
  38. ↑ Artworks of Fu Wenjun are among the Collection of National Art Museum of China
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