WU Tung-Lung

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1976 and currently lives and works in Taipei. Wu graduated from Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Academy of Arts, in 1998, and Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, in 2004. A sense of uncertainty often arises when looking at Wu Tung-Lung’s works, and viewers find it diffcult to interpret his works from a single perspective, and can only float in the uncertainty of his works. At first glance, viewers are extremely inclined to simply conduct formal perceptive interpretation of his works due to their minimalist and serene forms and colors; however, when viewers try to gain deeper understanding, the works will then gradually present their own interpretive uncertainties. Visually, Wu’s works do not present perceptive lines or the expressive forms of physical movements; instead, they present rational constructs of flat coloring that is almost hard edge, which seems to be the spiritual aesthetics of the formal construct. Yet, the pictures with a certain symbolic inclination turn viewers from perceptions to considerations of symbolic meanings from time to time—is it writing, ribbon, or a certain plant? Formal perceptivity is then differentiated by symbolic meanings. Also, displaying own physicality is another distinctive quality of his works. The surfaces of physical pictures polished by Wu also pull viewers from inner expressions of forms back to their perceptions of the materials, a warm and slow state. The multidimensionality of forms, symbolic meanings, and media, disturb the thoughts of viewers, but they can eventually sense the warmth and serenity after the subtle unrest through the steady and slow colors and designs, and float in the gaps in-between the feelings and perceptions of Wu Tung-Lung’s works

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Tung-Lung Wu (1976 - )

 

2004    M.F.A, Tainan National University of Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

1998    B.F.A, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Award   2017 The 15th Visual Arts Prize of Li Chun-shan Foundation

 

Artist In Residence

2019    Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany

2013    International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA

2012    The Glenfiddich Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland

2008    Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022    Suspension, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi, Taiwan

2020    Wu Tung-Lung's Solo Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2019    Ambiguous Dimensions, Apartment of Art, Munich, Germany

2018    Apeiron, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2018    15th LI Chun-Shan Modern Painting Award Winner, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

2017    Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Center, Singapore

2015 Idealized Fiction, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2014 The Seven Beds, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2013 Dufftown, ITPARK, Taipei, Taiwan

2011    Gray Universe , MOT/ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan

Quchi, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2008 Wu Tung-Lung's Solo Exhibition, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan

Dé-maquillage, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2007 Wu Tung-Lung's Solo Exhibition, TAIYU Beaux Arts Salon, Chiayi, Taiwan

Fragments of a Midsummer's Afternoon, ITPARK, Taipei, Taiwan

2005 Clarity, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2004 Image ‧ Boundary ‧ Conscious, Prototype Art, Tainan, Taiwan

Passes Through The Image Consciousness, Tainan Wen-Xian Painthouse studio Short-Term in Village Creation Publication, Tainan, Taiwan

2003 Reveal Shimmer, Licence Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022   Abnormal -Asia International Art Exhibition by Taiwan Committee Members, Daxin Art Museum, Tainan

2021   Place of being "Space and Materiality in Taiwan’s Avant-Garde Art,   1980-2021", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2021   Asia International Art Exhibition, Kyushu Arts Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan

2020   Culture China: "Farewell and Reunion" —3rd Global Overseas      

           Chinese Artists Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2020   Not Between, & other Art things, Taipei, Taiwan

2018   Minimalism · Cold Abstraction : Contemporary Abstract in Taiwan, Remarkable Cultivation Art Gallery, Tainan; Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 Springs Eternal: Glenfiddich Artists in Residence - 12 Years from Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

Contemporary Taiwan: An Exhibition of Abstract Art Classics, Tainan, Taiwan

2015 IT PARK Limited Editions, ITPARK, Taipei, Taiwan

Our Eyes, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2014 TAIYU Beaux Arts Salon Zhubei Branch Opening Exhibition, TAIYU Beaux Arts Salon Zhubei Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Go MAD!, MAD Museum of Art & Design, Singapore

2013 Mind of Forms, Seed Projects IV Mobile Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

New Standard and Conception, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2012    Artists at Glenfiddich 12, Glenfiddich Art Gallery, Dufftown, Scotland

Formless Form-Taiwanese Abstract Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2011    Creating Spaces—The 5th Anniversary of VT, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan

Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Quchi, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2010    Variations of Geometric Abstraction in Taiwan's Contemporary Art, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

          Beyond Vision, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2009 Review Gaze, TAIYU Beaux-Arts Salon, Chiayi, Taiwan

2008    Harmony in Diversity - Compatibility of 19 Cross-Strait Art Spirits, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Contemporary Explorations in Abstraction and Materials, Impressions Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2007   Territory of Shape and Color - Subversion and Reconstruction, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Sensitivity : Memories of twelve artists' works, Dimensions Art Center, Beijing, China; Taipei, Taiwan

2006 The 12 th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, R.O.C, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2005  Art of the “E” generation in Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

         Spatial Thickness, Gallery Su., Taipei, Taiwan

2004 Scylla and Charybdis in Love : The Challenges Facing Contemporary

Taiwanese Artists, Gwangju Fine Arts Museum, Korea; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

Seam 3 : About Crevasse in Self-Waiting, Galerie Pierre, Taichung,Taiwan

 

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