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|Creator=Junyu Chen
|Creator=Junyu Chen
|Date=2015
|Date=2015
|Bio=Bio=Junyu CHEN (1990, China) is an artist uses video and drawing as her main tool for self-analysis to approach artistic questions. She has a specific enthusiasm for depicting the process of drawing physically and conceptually and through the way question the current state of drawing.  
|Bio=Junyu CHEN (1990, China) is an artist using video and drawing as her main tool for self-analysis to address the visual language we communicate with. She has a specific enthusiasm for depicting the process of drawing physically and conceptually, and into the way we question the current state of drawing.
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|Website=http://chenjunyu.org/
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To speak about the natural truth of the process of drawing – the movement of making strokes on paper, is not a single­track activity, it is interactive. The roughness of paper, the sound generated by the friction between paper and pen point, and the continuing change created by the lines which reflects to whole drawing, somehow triggers artist to make the next step and influence her decision making. “Each stroke had to be a decision and was answered by a new question.” (Rosenberg, 1952)
This minimal act of drawing becomes meaningful for me through time. The continuous action gains the control to draw. It is a meditative process while trying to fully focus on holding the brush and regular breathing. I feel directly perceived through the senses that I am tracing the lines. I like this minimal way for creation, because the simplicity for expression, it leaves a lot “empty space” for viewer to imagine.
 
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Why to draw, here and now?
 
“Nature presents our eyes with colored surfaces to which painted areas of pigment may correspond, and with inflected surfaces to which sculptural surfaces may correspond. But nowhere does it present our eyes with the lines and the relationships between lines which are the raw material of drawing.” (Philip Rawson,Drawing). Drawing expresses the artist’s individual perception and produces a statement to the world by depicted lines. The underlying movements of the lines is the concrete documentation of this narrative. This work visualises the movements of “making” emphasing the lively and personal process of the drawing.


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|Website=http://chenjunyu.org/
|Description=Most of the art education I have been through, tried to force me copy others’ simbols of drawing, especially when I was really young. My example may be extreme, actually everyday we are going through different degrees of visual assimilation, such as advertisements. In a way they aslo builds the reality surrounding us, yet we are limited by the similar or popular types of visual simbol which should visually make the connection between "self" and the world. We read this world directly by images, if it narrows the possibilities of reading the world, does it also narrow our understanding about the world?


This work is a combination of past experience and new start, copied visual expression and the creation from self-cognition. "
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Latest revision as of 17:37, 13 February 2017

A Unique Line
Creator Junyu Chen
Year 2015
Bio Junyu CHEN (1990, China) is an artist using video and drawing as her main tool for self-analysis to address the visual language we communicate with. She has a specific enthusiasm for depicting the process of drawing physically and conceptually, and into the way we question the current state of drawing.
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Line copy.jpg
Website http://chenjunyu.org/

Why to draw, here and now?

“Nature presents our eyes with colored surfaces to which painted areas of pigment may correspond, and with inflected surfaces to which sculptural surfaces may correspond. But nowhere does it present our eyes with the lines and the relationships between lines which are the raw material of drawing.” (Philip Rawson,Drawing). Drawing expresses the artist’s individual perception and produces a statement to the world by depicted lines. The underlying movements of the lines is the concrete documentation of this narrative. This work visualises the movements of “making” emphasing the lively and personal process of the drawing.