Double Square 双方藝廊

Exhibtion: 2015.10.31-12.13
Location: Double Square Gallery
Reception: 2015.10.31 (SAT) 3:00 pm
Event
• Guided Tour - 2015.11.07 (SAT) 3:00pm Speaker │ Artist/Wu Tung-Lung
• Artist Talk - 2015.11.28 (SAT) 3:00-5:00pm Speaker │ Professor of Tainan National University of the Arts /Hsueh Pao-shia、Curator/Chang Ching-Wen、Artist/Wu Tung-Lung、Curator/Sean Hu
• Guided Tour - 2015.12.06 (SUN) 3:00pm Speaker │ Curator/Chang Ching-Wen、Artist/Wu Tung-Lung

Text / Chang Ching-Wen

Treating the allegorical scenario of Moriana in Le Città Invisibili as the point of departure, this exhibition charts a literary journey across Wu Tung-Lung’s riveting artworks that not only convey the essence of fiction but also evoke the imagery of abstraction. The Italian writer Italo Calvino was adept at depicting fictitious things with veracious words. While novels are certainly fictional in nature, these fictitious characters and scenarios may faithfully reflect realities and ergo give the readers great visceral thrills. So is the case of painting. The fictitious things that painters or writers create, quovis modo, tend to constitute an untrammeled scene, city, or world. Nonetheless, for these fantastic landscapes to take final shape, it further requires the engagement of the viewers or the readers with their vivid imagination. As far as the content of Wu’s artworks is concerned, all the lines and symbols are not created for referring to any specific things. They are as fictional as the elements in novels. However, the viewers cannot refrain from relating themselves to these fictional things in some way. For the artist, these fictional things may be the metaphorical expressions of his life condition, monologue on his quotidian existence, or manifesto for the world. No matter which, they are created by the artist’s meticulous craftsmanship. They are schemed yet aesthetically lithe. When elaborating on the essence of novels, Calvino claimed that mastering ambiguity is sometimes a prerequisite for achieving precision. The term “ambiguity” implies vigor and uncertainty. The aura of mystery that Wu gives his artworks also displays a vigorous and aesthetically pleasing quality. The inexpressible relationships of every stripe between the artist and the world lurk in the narratives woven by the artist himself. After all, everything is no fact but fiction.