Vinci Weng — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Vinci Weng is a practicing artist working primarily with contemporary photography and new media art. In an artistic practice spanning over thirty years, his research interests include modern painting, digital fine art and experimental animation.

Weng has an excellent track record of creative practice and research output. As an artist and academic, his research into digital art, experimental animation and contemporary photography has enabled him to participate in numerous exhibitions and receive many awards. His works have been presented internationally at museums and galleries, and have also been widely collected by galleries, museums and institutions around the world.

Weng is an Associate Professor at College of Communications, Chinese Culture University in Taipei, and one of the representative artists for YellowKorner (YK) Galleries based in Paris and other major cities worldwide. He is currently working on a new series of digital composite photographs – the project ‘Adventure beyond the Fantasylands’. His new works will examine various aesthetic views of reality depicted in his painterly composite photographs.

Artist Statement

Vinci Weng adopts the concepts of painting, photography and cinema that addressed some interesting issues of digital art with possibilities to go beyond the limit of still and moving images. ‘Seeing, exploring and knowing’ is the principle reference to the context of fictional landscapes in his practice. Weng’s work builds on the inner, abstract and surreal landscapes where illusions and fantasies are reflected. His digital still and moving image explores the surreal relation of the pictorial, theatrical and cinematic perspectives.

More specifically, the series has a group of magic events that invites the viewer into the wonder tales of my Utopia, in which both natural and artificial realities exist at the same time in the fictitious landscapes. With the use of vivid colour and theatrical juxtapositions, his large-scale photographs visually emphasize the depth and scale in the imaginary fields. He believes that our imaginations will bring out different realities, when we a longer look at the details of these photographs.

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