WEN MENG-YU 温孟瑜 (Korean)

Critical Essays

Wen Meng-Yu (1987-)

Wen Meng-Yu was born in Chiayi, Taiwan and has received her M.F.A. in the Department of Fine Arts in Taipei National University of the Arts. She was among the artists listed by the Ministry of Culture in Art Taipei 2016 – MIT：Young Artist Discovery. Recognised by significant art award juries, Wen Meng-Yu was the recipient of the finalist award in 2018 ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, the Chu Teh-I Jury Award in 2017 Art Olympia, the finalist award in 2015 Art Olympia, selected prize of Taipei Arts Awards (2014), The 12th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award (2014), Kaohsiung Awards (2013), top prize of The Arising Artist Award of New Taipei City (2013) and Long Yen Foundation Art scholarship. The artist has also been invited to exhibit in crucial joint exhibitions, including ‘Art Olympia 2015’ in Tokyo, ‘ASYAAF 2015’ in Seoul, ‘Art Olympia 2017’ in Tokyo, ‘ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 2018’ in Venice. In 2015 She also held her solo exhibition ‘Circumstances’ at WINWIN Art Gallery and partook in ‘Residential Memory: Wen Meng-Yu and Wu Chien-Yi Duo Exhibition’ by Telling Arts. Her works are in the collections of FAN Museum in Japan, ‘Art Bank, Taiwan’, a program under National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the renowned Long Yen Foundation.

Wen Meng-Yu devotes herself to the discovering of the relationship between human beings and spaces. She takes rooms as a container of our daily life and captures the subtleties of human relationships through furniture and object arrangements. Memories and emotions that she recorded, collected and savoured are embedded in every piece of the furniture, adding energy and tension to her seemingly peaceful setting. The objects transformed into the containers and onto the canvases continue to tell its stories and elicit its elusive relations to people. Meng-Yu utilises windows and frames as symbols which introduce the external world into her art. By incorporating starry night, ocean and other elements from nature, she extends her personal experience into a collective emotion that goes beyond individual or specific memory from the past.

왼멍위 (温孟瑜)（1987-）

출생지는 타이완 짜이(嘉義)로 국립타이베이 예술대학 미술학과 석사반의 창작팀을 졸업하여 Art Olympia 2015입상, 타이베이 미술상(2014)입선, 제12회타우위엔 창작상(2014). 가오슝상(2013), 신베이시 창 작신입상(2013) 등 많은 당대 예단을 대표하는 우선(優選) 및 입선으로 획득 및 근정을 받아다. 작품은 국립 타이완미술관예술은행, 룡옌(龍顏)기금회예술창작상 획득 및 전장하여다. 왼멍위는 2015년 「시나리오 생명(情景生活)」 개인전 및 「기역 거류(記憶居留)」 연합전을 개최하였으며, 아울러 작품은 초청을 받아 일본 동경「Art Olympia 2015」, 한국 서울「ASYAAF 2015」에서 전시하여다.

개인적 추억이 창작의 핵심으로 화작(畫作)을 통해 생활속에 사물을 보류하고 세밀하게 물아(物我)사이에 미묘 한 관계를 체험하여 관찰자에게 기존에 있어던 순간을 느끼게하고 예술가 자체에게는 기역적 의미가 있어서 공 관과 물건에 의해 서로가 마주보면서 교직을 침투, 서로 의존하다. 아크릴 및 복합매재 사용으로 일상생활의 모 습을 새로운 방식으로 구상, 화면은 세밀한 평면화이며, 이미지는 추가적으로 단순하면서 정형적이고 차례가있 다. 사물은 최종적으로 같은 과정속에 속하여 완전히 현실적이 아닌 선택성으로 배정한 장면이며 기 장면에서 남긴 물건은 사념(思念)으로 전환함은 생활 공간이 창작에서 중요한 위치에 있다는 것을 강조한다.

근년(近年)의 창작은 실내공간과 풍경 결합을 시도하고있다. 풍경은 「창」, 「틀」의 암시를 통해 별하늘, 해 경인 자연적 물(物) 과 경(景)을 화면에 주입하여 실내 및 옥외 공간을 같은 화보에 장치하는 것을 시도했으며 이것은우리들이익숙한물건소재이지만모든인에게담은뜻은다르다. 「나의작품에는공동성이있지만특 별히그누구에속하지않고어느하나의기역에재현도아니다. 」창작자는자신의생활모습을시작으로다른 이에 미소(微小)한 풍경도 서술한다.

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