Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is delighted to present Fāng Fāng, which is Chen Chien-Jung’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, and will run from November 12 to December 24, showcasing more than twenty paintings featuring the motif of orderly and logical artificial landscape constructed with paint and canvas. Overlapping geometric color blocks and utilizing measured lines drawn with equipment, the artist deconstructs common graphic signs and design drawings in everyday life before re-combining them to interweave different painterly elements, such as layers and lines. Throughout the creative process, he repeatedly overturns material, color sense, and objects, while re-inventing the two-dimensionality of space with rationally orchestrated architectural lines and piled-up colors.

The exhibition title, Fāng Fāng, is inspired by the artist’s perception of space and site. Drawing inspiration from architectural designs, construction plans, operations manuals, as well as lines and color blocks found in everyday life, Chen uses the techniques of construction and deconstruction as a way to reflect on the making of two-dimensional painting. He cleverly amalgamates rationally designed architectural space with imperfect traces unexpectedly found or created in everyday life, viewing his works as second- or third-hand artifacts. The creative elements that he utilizes include floorplans of stations, graphic designs of street signboards, product manuals, etc. He also uses parts of unrealizable design drawings found on the internet to re-work and convert these designs that could only be realized previously in personal imagination and a fictional world. Utilizing different painting instruments to layer and blur the images, rendering their original functionalities weakened, the artist builds his unique two-dimensional world.