honorable mention
Vinci Weng taiwanPhoto © Vinci Weng
title
The New Fantasyland
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
The work is fantastic set in a fictional universe, often inspired by our real world; it is without specific place or venue. It raises a number of surreal assemblages as well as dramatic boundary in the theatrical scenario. As a kind of ‘fantasyland’, I narrate events and tales through my storytelling picture.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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