The Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles and Creative Class Collective jointly present "ART RENZEI + POW!WOW! Long Beach" on Sep. 29.
With the theme "RISE • PLAY • REPEAT," the event will present Taiwanese artist Chen Wan-Jen's multimedia work "Midnight Blue" at the Long Beach City Hall and Hsu Tang-Wei's mural creation at POW!WOW! Long Beach.
Chen uses aerial photography to show the various postures of the swimmers in a repetitive cycle. Hsu's mural creation "The Native Island of Robots" metaphorically represents buildings as abstract carriers, containing people and things of different cultural backgrounds. In Hsu's on-site work, he uses black contour lines to create his unique mechanical painting, as if he has equipped the house with a motor and a time machine, ready to make the house alive.
Chen Wan-Jen graduated from the Fine Arts Department of National Taiwan University of Arts and received the Grand Prize of the Taipei Art Awards in 2006. In 2012, Chen attended a residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. His work has been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, and Tokyo.
Hsu Tang-wei holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts in Visual Arts at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan. He specializes in creating visual images and spatial relationships. His works have been installed in Taiwan's MRT stations, train stations, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, and Treasure Hill Artist Village. In 2013, he was invited by the New York City Department of Transportation to exhibit his work "Magic Monkeys," the first public artwork by a Taiwanese artist to be installed in New York City.
For more information about the event, please visit https://www.artrenzei.com/about and http://www.powwowlongbeach.com/.