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His subjects on the images face away from the camera and look into this awe-inspiring revolution with hope, fear, and curiosity to being in the thick of it all. I notably love their thinking, the way they conceive things, their vision, and their photographic style.
Accomplishments
Throughout his career, Weng Fen has contributed to more than 50 exhibitions both in his homeland and abroad, generating a worldwide reputation.
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The city has become the religion of today. He has had his work exhibited in Asia, American, and Europe, including notable galleries such as the San Diego Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris 1, the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art 2, the Shanghai Art Museum, the International Center of Photography in New York City, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo 3, the Singapore Art Museum, and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany.
As such, Weng conveys his ideals and hopes for contemporary China, its migrants, workers, children, and families.
Recent solo exhibitions include: “Likeness of the Otherness – Weng Fen Solo Exhibition”, Li Space, Beijing, China (2010), “Experimentalism – A Solo Exhibition of Weng Fen”, White Box Museum, Beijing, China (2010), “Fataurbana – Weng Fen”, Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan, Poland (2009) Recent group exhibitions include: “M+ Sigg Collection Exhibition: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art”, ArtisTree, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China (2016), “The Suggestive Wheel: An Era of Metaphors”, Box Art Space of OCT Harbour, Shenzhen, China (2016), “M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese Art from 1970 to now runs”, The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (2015), “Transcendence”, SOHO FUXING, Shanghai, China (2015), “Staging Encounters: Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China 2005-2014”, Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2014, Lianzhou, China.
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Two schoolgirls gazing out to Kangbashi New Area, formerly farmland and now the showpiece district of Ordos City, in China
Another view of Kangbashi
In Weng Fen’s next project, Bird’s Eye View, he again uses school girls as his subjects, though for this body of work, some of them are looking down from the tops of skyscrapers rather than sitting on walls looking up from ground level.
The artist is a native of the Hainan province and studied at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1985. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please contact us using the form below. He is famous for creating works related to nature, humans, and urbanization. "These young girls are the mirrors of us," said Weng in a 2015 interview, before rising nationalism and a withdrawal from openness to the world took hold.
1979, Hainan Province, China) graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China (1984) and lives and works in Haikou, China.
Themes of transformation, globalization, boundaries, and migration permeate the imagery of Chinese photographer Weng Fen. In his understated pictures, vast, blue skies are predominately featured, and his compositions typically consist of an individual or small group of people, their backs to the camera, looking upon rising cityscapes, large bodies of water, or utopic natural landscapes, their bodies dwarfed by the scale and magnitude of their surroundings, whether that be human technology or nature’s wonder.
Through them, we are at the same time excited, puzzled, waiting."
Artwork Details
- Title:
Sitting on the Wall: Haikou V
- Artist:
Weng Fen (Chinese, born 1961)
- Date:
2001
- Medium:
Chromogenic print
- Dimensions:
Image: 50 x 62.7 cm (19 11/16 x 24 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 58 x 70.6 cm (22 13/16 x 27 13/16 in.) - Classification:
Photographs
- Credit Line:
Gift of Ellie Warsh, 2009
- Object Number:
2009.539.4
- Rights and Reproduction:
© Weng Fen
- Curatorial Department:Photographs
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I particularly like Jeff Wall and Nan Goldin, but perhaps the Dusseldorf School of Photography that has most influenced me. Between Past and Future Pompidou Centre Paris France
2004
Shanghai Art Museum Shanghai Chine
2004
New Chinese Photography International Center of Photography New York United States
2004
Spellbound Aura – The New Vision of Chinese Photography MOCA Taipei Taiwan
2005
Between Past and Future - Photography and Video from China - New Seattle Art Museum -
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - ICP International Center of Photography USA
2006
13.06 16.10 Mahjong Art Museum Hambourg Germany
2008
27.04 23.11 New World OrderGroninger Museum Groningen The Netherlands
2013
18.08 10.11 Portrait of the Times - 30 Years of Contemporary Art Contemporary Art Museum
Shanghai China
2017
28.04 28.07 Photography and Video Biennial Contemporary Art Museum Chongqing China
2017
25.03 20.04 Empty Seats Chinese conceptual Photography Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok
Thailand
2018
28.09 04.11 3rd Photo Biennial C.A.F.A.
By the end of the same year, I returned to Hainan and started this practice of photography. Museum Beijing China
2018
2020
31.07 15.11 Shanghai Waves Historical Archives And Works Of Shanghai Biennial Contemporary
Art Museum Shanghai China
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Weng Fen 翁奋 - 鸟瞰 Bird's Eye View - Shenzhen - 2001
Weng Fen 翁奋 - Sitting on the Wall series
Weng Fen 翁奋 - Sitting on the Wall series
Weng Fen 翁奋 - Sitting on the Wall series
Weng Fen 翁奋 - Sitting on the Wall series
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Weng Fen : experimentalism
30.01 au 28.02 2010 White Box Museum Beijing
poster
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Sitting on the Wall: Haikou V
For Weng Fen, a schoolgirl serves as the avatar for a country in the throes of physical, social, economic, and political change—a collective self-portrait of China, and of the modern world.
WENG Fen 翁奋
Fen Weng (b.
First photos
Weng is inspired by both physical and emotional transitional phases and changes that were taking place in China in the 1980s and started making photography after a trip to Hong Kong and the United States in the late 1980s.
By calmly observing this ‘hyper-progress,’ I can then understand that men’s desires are the basis for social problems. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.
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Born in 1961, Weng Fen is a Chinese photographer and an active contemporary artist since the late 1990s.
In 1988, while I was traveling through Hong Kong and the United States of America, I bought my first camera: a Nikon for beginners. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection.
The fact that we cannot see the girls’ facial expressions, we are obliged to use our greater degree of imagination.