1／0 象征着太极中的黑与白、地球上的日与夜、道家的有与无，以及郑丽云的过去与未来。她的作品是传统与当代、理性与感性、随兴与严谨、抽象与写实。

让我们秉持期待的心，迎接2012 年6 月1 日于鑄造美術館展出的「1／0 郑丽云20 年回顾展」，让郑丽云运用她的方式告诉我们，她心中的宇宙及我们心中的宇宙。6 月1 日（五）下午三点将于铸造美术馆举办开幕酒会，敬邀各界共襄盛举，若有疑问欢迎来信铸造美术馆foundmuseum@163.com，或上铸造美术馆官方网站www.foundmuseum.com 查询。

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「1／0」郑丽云20 年回顾展

传统与当代的美丽撞击

‘1/10’ 20-Year Retrospective Exhibition

A constantly evolving journey

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Twenty years is a long span of time, but it is especially true for an artist. With

time there is the inevitable shifting and adjustment of one's attention, style, subject

and form. However, Leigh Wen has found the perfect balance by developing her own

unique art language.

Like great artists before her, Wen draws her inspiration from ideas both old and

new. Both neo-classicism and the 20th century avant-garde movement heavily

influenced Picasso. Similarly, Wen explores traditional forms of calligraphy and

Eastern brush painting, melding them with ideas of today's technological age. The

anchor in her works remains in her relentless focus on the four elements. Her

momentous works bridge East and West, old and new, to create a powerful language

that speaks universally to viewers.

On Friday, June 1st, 2012, the Found Museum is presenting “‘1/10’ 20-Year

Retrospective Exhibition”. Wen brings her twenty years of creation, hoping to share

her spectacular journey with a Chinese audience and with a different cultural frame of

mind. The curator Henry Lien aptly summarizes Wen's cultural influences:

“Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, she has a deep affinity for the elemental

power of water and the forces of nature. Living now in America, she embodies the

ebb and flow of competing cultures.”

Wen’s subjects are the four elements of Western cosmology—earth, air,

water, and fire. She describes the changes and possibilities of nature. Since

1993, Wen started to make changes to her work based on the Chinese brush

painting and Western oil painting. While the painting is still wet, she uses a

painting knife with a process of “subtraction” to crave out hundreds and

thousands of individual lines. These lines flow across the canvas in rhythms

and frequencies that create depths and swells on the painted surface. This style

has matured over two decades and is the trademark for her work.

Wen’s elegant and soft language of art also communicates a unique statement to

the audience and the contemporary art world. Much of current-day contemporary art

does not draw upon the beautiful texture of the Renaissance and ignores traditional

concepts of aesthetic. However, Wen’s paintings fulfill both traditional and

contemporary ideas of beauty, the audiences’ hearts echo the ever-changing light of

her paintings that shifts with position. Writer Timothy Cahill had described Wen as

Jing Hao during the reign of the Five Dynasties. She is not content with superficial

appearances and plunges deep into the power that resides in the elemental forces.

Wen morphs her respect to the universe into a spring of creation; her affection for

nature into paint and brush stroke.

“‘1/10’ 20-Year Retrospective Exhibition” represents the black and white of

Tai-Chi, the day and night of the Sun, the fullness and the emptiness of Tao, and the

past and future of Wen. Her paintings are traditional and contemporary; random and

meticulous; abstract and realist. This is an exhibition that is both visually and

intellectually stimulating and is met with great excitement. The opening reception

will be held at 3PM, June 1st, 2012, at the Beijing Found Museum. All are invited to

celebrate with us. Please email foundmuseum@163.com or visit

www.foundmuseum.com for more information.