Building the painting—solo exhibition of Cheng Feng Kevin YU

展出藝術家｜游克文 Artist｜Cheng Feng Kevin YU

開幕時間｜2018/06/22(五) 6:00pm Opening｜2018/06/22(Fri.) 6:00pm

展覽時間｜2018/06/22(五) - 2018/07/27(五) Duration｜2018/06/22(Fri.) - 2018/07/27(Fri.)

Galerie Grand Siècle is going to present artist Cheng Feng Kevin YU’s solo exhibition Building the painting during June 22th to July 27th, 2018. The opening will be held at 6 pm on June 22th, Friday. Taiwanese artist Cheng Feng Kevin YU, who has been working in Paris for many years, will hold a solo exhibition in Taiwan after six years. He always breaks through the limitations of artistic creation and focusing on the exploration of geometric/non-geometric, planar/stereoscopic, and forms/colors. Looking from the monochrome to Minimalism, continuing the overlap or juxtapose the plates, internalizing the artistic spirit of the past, he exploring the pulsation between thing-it-self and space through the pure of forms and media. That is, he started to make space became one of the media of his art.

Building the painting, “As its name, the exhibition focuses on the artist's architectural working process.” In this solo exhibition, Cheng Feng Kevin YU cut panels to the desired form to restructure it while import part of the building into new individuals. Therefore, “The building also becomes my medium.” He installs the work base on the idea similar to the scenario ontology while brings his own intuitive experience from the field and shapes a harmonious relationship. He left the traditional easel painting system and abandoned the frame of the image through the horizontal extension. In the vocabulary of contemporary art, Building the painting further eliminates the boundary between the plane, the three-dimensional, and the sculpture. It takes the surface as the foundation while connecting with the points and the lines to preserves the nature of the art, the intellectuality of thing-it-self, and also shows the extensibility of the body in space.

Cheng Feng Kevin YU lives in France.  Since 1988, his exhibition has exhibited in Paris and Taiwan. Exhibition in Paris such as E.S.E.C, Lelia Mordoch, Centre Culturel et d'informaion de Taipei à Paris, Centre Culturel Chinois, and held a solo exhibition in Espace Bateau Lavoir, 1989. Also include Brussels (Belgium), Nederland, Nice (France), Grand Palais (France), Musee Monart d'Ashdod (Israel), Taipei Fine Art Museum (Taipei), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei) etc.

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築畫， 顧名思義畫是蓋出來的，取名重點在於它的建築式手法。

多年來我不再使用畫架繪畫的系統，而是運用切割式的媒體，我將板面（卡紙、木板。。）切割出所要的形式、上色或不上色，將它們多塊重 疊、並置、折疊或用缐來連結構成，它們可以是獨立的個體。

但近年來我更喜歡將它們導入真實的空間，將作品與室內的牆壁、角落結合，也就是說建築物也是我的媒體。

The name of the exhibition "Building the painting" stems from the Artist's point of view that painting is constructing. As its name, the exhibition focuses on the artist's architectural working process.

Over the years, I abandoned the easel painting system. I cut panels (cardboard, wood boards, etc.) to the desired form, paint or leave them natural, and then juxtapose, superimpose, fold or use strings to connect them. These object-paintings can live independently.

However, in the recent years, I have introduced them into the real space, integrating my works into the walls or the corners of an interior. Therefore, the building also becomes my medium.