Title: What is Place (no longer on site)
Artist: Wen-Chih Wang Exhibition year: 2007
WANG: A WEAVING
The largest piece is Wang's Bridge, wherein trees become a living loom through which branches and limbs of resident scrub brush are secured using pliable rattan. It is an enclosure, a contemplative space, a space in transition, a channel from earth to sky to water. To engage with the work is to enter a space, to travel across and through, emerging at one end deeper in the forest and at the other, aloft amidst the tree canopy and overlooking the lake.
While Wang describes his Bunker Museum piece as a searching for harmony after catastrophe, the suggestion of crisis amelioration is not specific in the Canadian work, which is more suggestive of the deep natural history of Canada's old forests and their early inhabitants. He describes his process as a borrowing of ancient forms by which viewers are led to experience the embodiment of the primitive setting.What remains is a purity of experience, one that brings forth a longing for undefined notions of the primitive.
Margaret Rogers, T R A N S P L A N T. The Tree Museum ( The Tree Museum 2007)
The full essay can be found in the 2007 Tree Museum Catalogue.
Wen-Chih Wang : Born 1959 in Chiayi, Taiwan, he graduated in 1989 from Department of Fine Arts, Chinese Culture University. He studied in France for four years and became a member of Artists Association of France. Now living in Chiayi, Wang has been an active member in the contemporary art scene. His works have been shown at the 49th Venice Biennale 2001, Outdoor Exhibition 2002 sponsored by Taipei Fubon Art Foundation and Taipei Art Festival 2002 commissioned by Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei Municipal Government and Chin Shan International Landscape Sculpture Exhibition 2003 in Taipei County. In addition, his solo exhibitions were held at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1995 and 2000.
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