RTSM | Tearing & Regenerating：唐晖 & Wendy LETVEN

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Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Two

2020艺讯网线上展览

2020艺讯网英文版最新线上展览项目“Reflecting the Sharing Moment”（缩写为RTSM）正式开启，第二期“撕裂·修复”已上线！我们邀请了12位来自世界各地的艺术家，带来他们在2020的思考和创作。第三期将于11月末上线，敬请期待！

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Based on More Than The Immune Problem, the second section Tearing & Regenerating invites 12 artists from home and abroad. The online exhibition presents the life in the pandemic as the starting point, which continues to observe and explore the topic of how artistic expressions and thoughts act on the impacted society and individuals, thus seeking comfort, love, and regeneration. In addition, with a further attention on the virtual field and advanced science and technology, it broadens the horizon on the topic such as AI and existence, digital skills and expression of emotions, and so on.

In this section, we would like to introduce artists TANG Hui and Wendy LETVEN, as well as their artistic reflections to the year 2020.

TANG Hui｜唐晖

"Complicated Passive Happiness"

Tang Hui

1968 Born in Wuhan

1987 Graduated From The Art School attached to the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China

1991 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Deputy Dean of the School of Plastic Arts, CAFA

Dean of the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a Doctoral Supervisor.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 Solo Exhibition, Hong Kun Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2013 Solo Exhibition, Eastation Gallery, Beijing, China

2011 Solo Exhibition, Eastation Gallery, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 “DO YOU COPY” MoCA Shanghai, China

2019 “BEYOND BOUNDARIES” An interaction between the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

2018 “TRADITION IS AN INVENTION” CAFA Centennial Works of Teacher Exhibition, United Kingdom

2017 "Born in the 60s China Contemporary Art Exhibition & Swedish Artist Invitation

Exhibition", New Gallery of Art, China

2017 "The Meeting of Dnieper: A Show and Interaction between Contemporary Art from China and Ukraine"

2017 "Jungle III –Common", Organized by Platform China Contemporary Art Institute

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The Flower of Revolution, 300X200cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020

In the past year, my creation has basically continued to expand along two threads, one is the Plant Series and the other is the Monument Series.

The pandemic meant I had to stay in California for seven months. The Bay Area in February was not affected by the pandemic initially but my return ticket was cancelled by the airline, and all plans were delayed indefinitely. It was during the days when Wuhan was locked down. My parents and brothers were all in Wuhan. I was in a state of anxiety, and lived with worry every day. Soon after I received a notice that the new semester would be postponed, this also heralded the beginning of a long vacation.

Taihu Stone II , 61X76cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020

Wuhan lifted its lockdown in April, which indicated that the domestic pandemic was brought under control, and my anxiety could be finally be relieved. Not long after May and June, the big data of the U.S. pandemic showed that tens of thousands of people were infected every day. The sky-high ticket prices and various conspiracy stories were all diffused. My family members in China began to worry about my safety again. These days were dramatically bizarre and full of twists and turns.

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Bamboo I, II, III, 60X70cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020

At the very beginning of the outbreak, the painting material store in the Bay Area was still open, so I went to buy picture frames. Later, as the pandemic became increasingly serious, the store was shuttered and closed. Under these circumstances, only online shopping could solve the problem of sourcing painting materials. What is different from China is the long waiting time for online shopping in the United States. This waiting then constituted my creative process. While waiting, the ocean, sunshine, and vegetation in California gave me the idea of continuing to create the Plant Series. Whenever I am in facing a complex situation, I hope to temporarily put down worries at work, aimlessly imagining and striving for perfection. I expect to get pleasure from consuming paint, energy, and time. The growth law of plants allows me to seek changes during restrictions and follow the law of changes. I deal with each simple part of a complication and entangle it in the problem to form a perfect or imperfect presentation of the edge. This kind of creative method can calm my heart which offers passive happiness.

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Pine I, II, III, 40x50cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020

Meanwhile, I have not given up on the creation of the Monument Series over the years. I have repeatedly explored and replicated this theme. The Monument Series is not ideological declarations. It only expresses the recollection of some scenes in the memory, and also commemorates the past that was once enthusiastic but gradually turned into a barren landscape.

Hero Monument, Digital Painting, 2020

Looking at this side of the monument from afar is precisely evident of life at present. There is childhood, faith, painting skills and love in these works.

During the quarantine period in the pandemic, I used vector tools to create a doctors’ monument. It is a sort of creation that is based on my true feelings.

Tang Hui

Wangjing, Beijing

Oct.14th, 2020

Wendy LETVEN

"It has occurred to me that this act of mediation is reflective of the times in which our human interactions are increasingly mediated."

Wendy Letven is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation and painting in the New York area. She has created installations for Art on Paper Fair, the Flatiron Prow Artspace, Portal: Governor’s Island, Market Art and Design and The Sheila R. Johnson Gallery at the New School, among others. Her work has been exhibited at Museums including The Montclair Art Museum, Hunterdon Art Museum, Allentown Art Museum, Bridgeport Art Museum and many others. Wendy is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a recipient of a Workspace Grant from Dieu Donne Papermill in New York. She is represented by Fou Gallery in Brooklyn. Raised in Philadelphia, she received a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MFA from Hunter College. She is a professor of Art and Design at New York University and at Parsons School of Design.

“My work explores a personal language of abstraction through a focus on natural form, pattern, repetition and rhythm. My process is reductive. There is a back-and-forth between simplicity and complexity and the way a work is perceived in time and in space. I am interested in similarities in the range of natural patterns that exist. Equally inspiring to me is the diversity of forms found in nature. In keeping with this I juxtapose the geometric with the organic, symmetry and asymmetry and lyricism, always seeking to translate and communicate something of the sheer excitement and energy that I perceive around me. My installation work embodies a strong material presence, inviting the visitor to enter into a dialogue between physical and space. Forms and images blend into one another, and are subverted and redefined in new ways. I have culled a growing vocabulary of evocative symbols that are personal, while hinting at a universal visual language. I often start with observational drawings, always photographing visual experience in daily life. In sculptural forms I translate drawings directly to paper or aluminum, bending, folding, layering, and attaching them to form volumes. Similarly, drawing, pattern and lyricism is an important aspect of the work. Through my investigations of nature, I feel the potential to come to a deeper understanding of humanity’s place within it.”

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Undulation, 52 x 64 inches, oil on linen, 2020

This recent series of paintings has largely been developed during the pandemic. There is clearly a perceptual element to them, embodying a sense of life through line in motion, color, light and ambiguous space. They hint at a frozen moment within a larger continuum. There is a digital step in the drawing process that, ironically, accounts for the freedom of the lyrical lines that make up these dynamic compositions. It has occurred to me that this act of mediation is reflective of the times in which our human interactions are increasingly mediated. I am finding myself on a path that involves stripping things down to their essence. It represents to me, a line of questioning and control that helps me focus my mind when daily life feels very slow, but the world at large seems to be moving very rapidly in an indeterminate direction.

Tremulous Space, 48 x 36 inches, oil on canvas, 2020.

Image and Text Courtesy of the Artists.

Edited by Sue and Emily/CAFA ART INFO

About the Exhibition

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Tearing & Regenerating

Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Two

2020艺讯网线上展览 | 第二回

Launch Date: 2020.10.30

Participating Artists

(in alphabetical order of surnames):

Domenico BARRA, CHEN Qi, CHEN Wenji, FENG Mengbo, Wendy LETVEN, LIANG Quan, LIU Jianhua, LIU Qinghe, MA Liuming, SHI Jinsong, TANG Hui, WU Jian'an

Curator: Emily ZHOU

Visual Design: Yizhi ZHANG

Organizer: CAFA ART INFO

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