honorable mention
Vinci Weng taiwan
title
Wonder in the Fields
I have used digital applications to create montages of different individual images, manipulating and blending them into what appears as a single unified photograph. The still images re-invent modern imaginative scenes; utilizing hi-res captured images (figures, houses, trees and so on) from multiple-perspective landscapes, and took over several months to shoot hundred pictures in order to achieve a seamless montage that gives the dream-like illusion of capturing a dramatic moment in time. These works are produced by Giclee fine art printing on the archival fine art papers, or screened on several large full-HD flat monitors, thereby allowing the viewer to perceive them as digital photographic/cinematic painting.
Weng is an Associate Professor in Digital Fine Art (Chinese Culture University in Taipei), and one of the gallery artists for YellowKorner (YK) based in Paris and other major cities worldwide. He is currently working on a new series of digital composite photographs – the project ‘Adventure beyond the Fantasylands’. His current practice and research will examine various surreal views and aesthetics depicted in his painterly images.
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entry description
Wonder in the FieldsI have used digital applications to create montages of different individual images, manipulating and blending them into what appears as a single unified photograph. The still images re-invent modern imaginative scenes; utilizing hi-res captured images (figures, houses, trees and so on) from multiple-perspective landscapes, and took over several months to shoot hundred pictures in order to achieve a seamless montage that gives the dream-like illusion of capturing a dramatic moment in time. These works are produced by Giclee fine art printing on the archival fine art papers, or screened on several large full-HD flat monitors, thereby allowing the viewer to perceive them as digital photographic/cinematic painting.
about the photographer
Dr. Vinci Weng is an artist and academic who works primarily with digital fine art and contemporary painting. In an artistic practice spanning over thirty-five years, his research interests include painting, digital-composite photograph and moving image. He adopts the concepts of painting, photography and cinema that addressing some interesting issues of digital art with possibilities to go beyond the limit of still and moving images. His work explores the relationships between abstraction and surrealism, painting and photography, still and moving image. ‘Seeing, exploring and knowing’ is the principal reference to the context of fictional landscapes in his practice. His work builds on the inner, abstract and surreal landscapes where illusions and fantasies are reflected.Weng is an Associate Professor in Digital Fine Art (Chinese Culture University in Taipei), and one of the gallery artists for YellowKorner (YK) based in Paris and other major cities worldwide. He is currently working on a new series of digital composite photographs – the project ‘Adventure beyond the Fantasylands’. His current practice and research will examine various surreal views and aesthetics depicted in his painterly images.
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