WANG Hung-Chih｜Cité Internationale des Arts - Arts Residency Network Taiwan 藝術進駐網

Location	France / Paris
Residency	Cité Internationale des Arts
Year of the Grant	2008
Work	《€ 52851》solo exhibition
Personal Website	WANG Hung-Chih's Personal Website

WANG Hung-Chih was born in Taipei. He got his Master's degree with highest honors from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Rennes in by a unanimous vote of the jury, after graduating from National Taiwan University of Arts. And a Ph.D. degree in Fine Art, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. He was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture for the international exchange and went to the Cite International des Arts for residency and was invited to participate in exhibitions in Japan and Korea. Meanwhile, his work was also sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation and exhibited in the galleries, art centers, and alternative spaces in France, Japan, and Korea. He focused on the topic of "Intentionality and Creativity" when he was the researcher of L'Institut ACTE of France. He was an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts and is currently a full-time assistant professor at the Department of Art and Design at Yuan Ze University. He is also the consultant and professional counseling of TSUNG YU CHAN, a high-end fashion brand. WANG's recent works focus on the state of everyday things and their ambiguity, attempting to "reorder" the viewer's visual experience of looking at things to bring out the differences to different objects between generations.

Artist Statement:

The ability to interact with artists from different countries at Cite Internationale des Arts expanded my views. Paris is a city loved by many tourists. It passively tolerates foreign cultures, whereas French culture is subtle and implicit. The consumerist system created under this combination of city and culture greatly impacted my work.

On a different note, many countries adopted the Euro as their currency at the beginning of the 2000s. This obviously affected prices for commodities. Local Parisians developed different ways of contemplating price and value for specific goods. As an outsider, I had also come up with my own way of viewing goods. These two perspectives, one of the local and one of the visitor, were somehow linked. I hoped to look for this link in my work.

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