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KAKERA

梁 廷玮 LIANG Tingwei

2023.5.20 – 7.2

Tokyo

Shun Art Gallery is honored to present artist Tingwei Liang’s solo exhibition Party Before New Year Party. The exhibition showcases the artist’s new works from 2022, including more than 20 works from the two series “GODISH” and “MIMICS”. Among them, the “GODISH” series differs from the previous works, adding new symbols. Through the re-creation of religious works at the beginning of the Renaissance, human beings are divided into divine and animal, that is, the monkey with a strong religious color in the work. This way of expression subtly allows the audience into the so-called perspective of God, looking back at human society itself in a higher dimension, and thinking about the significance of religion, an indispensable part of civilization, in human history that differs from the previous. The “MIMICS” series is derived from the Latin language and has the meaning of “imitation” in English, which means “monkeys imitate human behavior”. The almost identical sense of sight of monkeys expresses the epitome of human society from an absolute perspective.

About the artist

梁廷玮 LIANG Tingwei
LIANG Tingwei graduated from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, majoring in contemporary art. During his studies and creations in the UK, Liang Tingwei’s art research focuses on the subtle connections between evolutionary theory and anti-evolutionary theory, as well as animal hierarchies, such as knowledge and power, morality, and communication. Since 2015, his works have been dedicated to exploring the relationship between animal nature and the divinity of human beings, as well as the value of “meaning” that is higher than the substance itself. In 2017, the “Blue Monkey” series was born. This series is also an important representative series of Liang Tingwei, in addition to his other conceptual works. The work is based on exploring the unity and complexity of human beings’ reflection on their society from the third perspective. “The viewer reflecting himself” is an important concept that Liang Tingwei is desirous to convey in his works.
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