Fu Wenjun is a must-see artist at 2019 AIPAD The Photography Show

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Fu Wenjun (b. 1955) Chinese contemporary artist, graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He creates principally with art media of photography, digital art, installation, sculpture and oil painting, and has put forward the concept and practice of “Digital Pictorial Photography”.

Fu Wenjun’s creative output can be summed up by his term Digital Pictorial Photography, which he uses to redefine the traditions found at the core of the photographic arts. By blending elements of other artistic media into the process, he creates a brand-new form of aesthetic pleasure. Fu Wenjun embraces a range of art forms, combining them into unique and monumental works that reach beyond the mere act of recording a photographic image.

His work brings together the practical aspect of photography with the aesthetic nature of other forms of visual arts. By demonstrating the complementary relationship of photographs and other modes of artistic practice, Fu Wenjun transforms what may seem to be an inaccessible message into a highly approachable concept that can trigger critical thought about history and humanity.

Red Cherry Digital Pictorial Photography 39.37x39.37 in / 100x100 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

Crying Osprey Digital Pictorial Photography 39.37x39.37 in / 100x100 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

April Digital Pictorial Photography 39.37x39.37 in / 100x100 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

“Photography is two-dimensional. But if we fall into this definition, our expression with photography would be limited. In my works I integrate many personal understandings of Chinese traditional art… Some people say my works “do not look like photography”, but the “unlike photography” on the contrary is a new way of presentation. We could change anything and make changes beyond the common sense.”

Gondola’s Waiting Digital Pictorial Photography 23.62x23.62 in / 60x60 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

Orderly Disorder Digital Pictorial Photography 23.62x23.62 in / 60x60 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

Red Feather Digital Pictorial Photography 23.62x23.62 in / 60x60 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

You Will Have Bread Digital Pictorial Photography 23.62x23.62 in / 60x60 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

“Nature can speak, just not in the language created by humans. I like to listen to the sounds of nature, as the ancient Chinese literati who explored the meaning of life among the vast landscapes. Water is invisible, but it can be transformed into many forms; the water is weak, but its accumulation could be powerful; the water reflects the reality, and the illusion too.”

Human Nature for Food No.1, 2 Digital Pictorial Photography 23.62x23.62 in / 60x60 cm 2017-2018 Edition 1/1

“Under the familiar surface, it is full of often overlooked details, intriguing and shocking, so is the food, people as well.”

Ask Tea No.2, 3, 12, 22 Digital Pictorial Photography 11.81x11.81 in / 30x30cm 2018 Edition 1/1

“What is considered a coincidence is in fact inevitable. The result is nothing but an inevitable accident. How to look at the whole process is a more challenging matter of personal opinions.”

F1 No.9, 11, 12, 24 Digital Pictorial Photography 15.75x15.75 in / 40x40 cm 2018 Edition 1/1

“I take pictures with my camera and also my eyes are also ‘shooting’. From time to time on quiet nights, the shot scenes emerge in the mind. Different times, different places and different people are intermingled with each other. This disorder makes me feel harmonious and peaceful, which seems to be an essential and deep ‘beauty’. From my own and others, I have seen too many complexities and contradictions in human nature. There is no straight road in our world. People always come and go with hope and bend around. The so-called correctness is only a relative statement at a certain time and in a certain situation. ‘Misplacement’ is a normal state. Reaction made is only a momentary decision of the human brain. ‘Wrong’ could be ‘right’, ‘right’ could also be ‘wrong’. In front of conflicts and crises, pessimists are desperate, and optimists have hope.”

SOME SOLO SHOWS

2019, “Again Enter the Scene --- Fu Wenjun Digital Pictorial Photography Exhibition” , Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China

2019, “Digital Brush: The Photographic Process of Fu Wenjun”, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2017 “Harmony in Diversity --- Fu Wenjun’s Digital Painting Photography Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2015 “Thoughtful Images --- Fu Wenjun’s Abstract Photography Exhibition” , Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2018 “Is It Photography – Fu Wenjun Digital Pictorial Photography Solo Exhibition” , Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, USA

2017 “Fu Wenjun: Ways of Xieyi Presented in Digital Pictorial Photography” , Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

2017 “Introspection of Soul. Artistic Expression in the Digital Pictorial Photography of Wenjun Fu”, Museu Europeu de Arte Moderno, Barcelona, Spain

2015 “Photographic Narrative --- Fu Wenjun’s Conceptual Photography Solo Exhibition”, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA

2010 “Graphic Expression of Spirit”, The Old Summer Palace Museum, Beijing, USA

2010 “Show of Formality” , Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

SOME GROUP SHOWS

Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea di Salerno (Salerno, Italy, 2018)

Photofairs | Shanghai (Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China, 2018)

Chianciano International Art Biennale (Chianciano Art Museum, Chianciano, Italy, 2018)

Biennale delle Nazioni (la Scuola Grande della Misericodia, Venice, Italy, 2018)

International Moving Exhibition of Famous Chinese Artists (Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, Russia, 2017)

Esposizione Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma (Rome, Italy, 2017)

London Art Biennale (London, UK, 2017)

1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2015)

XVIII Bienal de Cerveira (Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal, 2015)

Nord Art 2015 (Büdelsdorf, Germany, 2015)

Voice of the Unseen Chinese Independent Art 1979/Today (Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2013)

Conceptual Renewal: A Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photography (Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, 2012)

Salon des indépendants (Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 2010)

Welding --- International Tour Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Art in the First Ten Years of the 21st Century (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Hague, 2010)

35th Japan AJAC Yokohama International Overseas Artists Exhibition (Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, 2009)

AWARDS

He has gained numerous awards, including the first prize from International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina, “The Best Artist in the World” at Tour Eiffel La Grande Exposition Universelle, International Award “Lorenzo il Magnifico” of X Florence Biennale, Global Art Award.

COLLECTION

His artworks are collected by National Art Museum of China, Museu Europeu de Art Moderno, University Museum and Art Gallery The University of Hong Kong, Today Art Museum, the Old Summer Palace Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, University Museum and Art Gallery The University of Hong Kong, 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.

www.fuwenjun.com

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