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Chen Linggang (China)

As Michel de Certeau stated writing possesses a symbolic function. Chen Linggang claims that writing and culture are part of his artistic creation as it is manifested in Heritage Series. In his paintings we can see small squares containing what it appears to be symbols from Chinese alphabet. The symbols are repeated beyond the canvas. Writing gives a notion of past through language and opens to the present a space of its own. Thus Chen Linggang builds up his own understanding of culture through the construction of a symbolic archive in which writing is the key to understand his own preoccupation on history and culture. This concern takes place through language and painting.

 

Chen Linggang (China) has been exhibited mainly in China and Switzerlang.

"In my work, I blurred the image of something specific, also is not. All (of them) have an element of uncertainty. This also gives me doubts, not sure of things themselves, or are we to judge the uncertainty of their do? The same is true for the history and culture, and heritage that we really understand its true meaning it? We see the butterfly, but is this "butterfly" is the "butterfly"  that it would like to show to our ? When I try to use a certain, specific image to show the world, I found it to be uncertain and ambiguous. I can’t use a number or a word or image to express my world, it gives me is a kind of uncertainty. My works looks  like no clear direction, but there is an intangible factor in guiding me to the feeling and thinking!" (2010, Chen Linggang)

 

Other works:

Inheritage Series no. 37 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 68 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 65 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 62 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 67 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 61 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.
Inheritage Series no. 27 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 150 x 96 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 69 (2010), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 66 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 71 (2010), Ink on Rice Paper, 150 x 96 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 70 (2010), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.	Inheritage Series no. 73 (2009), Ink on Rice Paper, 120 x 80 cm.