"WUDERKAMMER-Chen's Architectures and Art Installations"
E Chen's solo exhibition, "Wunderkammer," exhibits his sculpture installations in Ca-lifornia and architecture pro-posals done over the last ten years. His works attempts to reinterpret artificial object space and subvert the functionality of artificial objects, having a close relationship with anti-consumerism. His installations have, after taking on different guises in a number of previous exhibitions, evolved to become independent works totally di-fferent from before. His archi-tecture proposals remain at the concepts on paper stage, but if used to help us understand the relationship between architecture and social structure, and to understand the "means to construct society" rather than "to construct the world," they are very absorbing.
In this exhibition six installation works and three architecture proposals are exhi-bited, exploring possibilities for buildings and individuals and space and ima-gination. "United Paper-Our totem pole" is made from everyday consumer items, using hollowed out product cardboard pro-duct boxes to show the excessively rich material culture of modern people. The "No Strategy" series uses thousands of wooden bricks, together with transformed and reassembled chairs, tales, doors and hanging fans and other ready made fur-niture, in an attempt to deconstruct the established home space. "The Raft of the Medusa" is a sculpture installation made using a tent, quilts and pillows, inspired by "The Raft of the Medusa," the famous painting by Theodore Gericault, drawing on historic events and presenting metaphors for the inner struggles of the individual. "Legally Nature" uses artificial scenery made from wool and wooden boxes, echoing the 2010 Taipei International Floral Expo that is soon to begin. "911"uses ready made products and cardboard boxes to investigate the nature of sculpture.
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