Chen Wen Ling

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Chen's Red Boys resemble a lotus growing out of the mud, satisfying viewers' craving for a new trend of avant-garde art, i.e. to make art a vehicle of the construction of human nature rather than a weapon of criticism of human nature. His works attract outsiders, insiders, academics and avant-garde critics alike to appreciate them from their own perspectives.

About the artist

Chen Wen Ling was born in 1969 in China and is recognized as one of the top ten contemporary sculptors in the international art industry today. Since graduating from the Xiamen Academy of Art where he studied in the sculpture department followed by Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, his exhibitions have been held in numerous prestigious exhibitions all around the world. In 1999, Chen Wen Ling received the Venice Biennial International Prize of the Golden Lion in Italy and In 2005, he received the award for best installation in the Museum for Inopportune in France. He has also held displays of his Red Memory series at ‘Sculptures by the Sea’ for consecutive years, which received high demand and acclaim.