Chen Meitsen
"...sometimes veins are filled with matter which surrounds the living creatures caught en-masse, thus the marble slab is like a lake rippling with fish. Other times veins are innate ideas in the soul, like folded figures or potential statuary contained in rough, uncut marble."
From The Fold.
Gilles DELEUZE
RECESSES - 47 x 27,6 inches - Photography, herbs, varnish - 5 examples Q. Is this universe made of fruit and vegetables?
A. It's a fresh way of observing familiar things: a way of seeing which transforms microscosm into macrocosm.
Q. Since their rough textures resemble the surfaces of the Moon or the planet Mars; can we take this to mean your asteroids exist too ?
A. One may compare esthetic matter without having to specify whether these are apples or lemons.
Q. Fruit rots but planets are not organic; can one assimilate their destinies?
A. Asteroids die too: both planets and fruit have life spans but these differ by milliards of years.
CHEN Mei-Tsen
ASTEROIDS - Photography - 15 examples - 10x8 inches Different forms of existential sentiment inhabit the no man's land of my memory. Attempts to classify them are not guided by chronological concerns but according to affective and emotional order.
I'll remember something and with it comes the desire to build a Memory Catalogue. I make an inventory of vital moments by imprinting their marks in space and time: this method produces what I call an intimate topography, a map detailing sensitivities and experiences in high relief.
Archaeologist discovers fossils and imprints in different geological strata; so too, successive layers of resin render my photographic traces of the human body in both their entirety and in parts; the folds of flesh anticipating continuity; evoking correspondences. Installed side by side in their transparent coatings they could be communing with each other.
CHEN Mei-Tsen
FOLDS - Series - 18x13x1,3 inches - resin, photo, glass, plants
FOSSIL IN SECOND STATE, series - 13x8,5x1,5 inches - resin, photo, glass
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan
Studies
- 1993-95 Ecole Supérieure des Etudes Cinématographique, Paris.
- 1991-92 Ecole Nationale des Arts de Cergy Pontoise, France.
- 1985-90 Beaux Arts at the National Institut of Arts, Taiwan.
Solo exhibitions
- 2007 - Larith Gallery, Chambéry, France.
- 2005 - Mezzara-Guimard House, Paris.
- 2004 - Septmoncel City Hall, Jura, France.
- 2004 - Poligny Culture Center, Jura, France.
- 2003 - Viry-Chatillon Condorcet Culture Space, France.
- 1990 - IT-Park Gallery, Taipei.
Group exhibitions
- 2006
- Del Grabado (Estampa) International Fair, Madrid, Spain.
- 2005
- « rue des Granges » Festival in Mollans-sur-Ouvèze, France.
- UNESCO, Paris.
- 2004
- Franco-chinois Festival in MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris.
- 2003
- Gravure et des Nouvelles Images International Biennial in Sarcelles, France.
- Culture and Information Center of Taipei in Paris.
- Cathay Gallery, Paris.
- 2006-2005-2004-2003
- Toutes Latitudes Gallery, Vincennes, France.
- 2002
- Association of Contemporary Art Promotion, Jura, France.
- Salon des Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Paris.
- Prix du jury at the Salon d'Art Contemporain in Viry-Chatillon, France.
- 2004-2001
- Salon d'Automne, Paris.
- 2001
- Julia Gallery, Taipei.
- Salon des Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Salon d'Art Contemporain de Montrouge, France.
- 2000
- St Eustache Forum Gallery, Paris.
- 1990
- Eslite Gallery, Taipei.
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