CHIEN-TUNG CHEN Solo Exhibition – eastwalker

"CHIEN-TUNG CHEN Solo Exhibition – eastwalker" is scheduled to be launched at Taipei MRT Gallery in the winter of 2023, a life-time first solo exhibition of the artist/multimedia designer/poet/singer/music producer/curator/programmer. This exhibition manifests Chien-Tung CHEN's talents in cross disciplines since the past 2 decades. The submitted exhibition poster is trying to communicate the problem of the opposition in between Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) and Simplified Chinese (China) writing system with running script, as well as cursive script, which recalls the founder of the Standard Cursive Script, Yu, Yo-Ren, a widely respected contemporary cursive script master around Taiwan, China, and Japan. Yu addressed “printing in tradition font, writing in cursive script" in his book "The Standard Cursive Script."



At same time, Taiwan’s presidential election is running. The whole Taiwanese people is facing a decision in between peace and war. That is why Chien-Tung is proposing “a discussion of the cross-strait word system communion.” While living in the high tech contemporary era, most people write less in daily life. Chien-Tung is thinking to explode this topic with the exhibition in the crowded MRT gallery, and embed a crowd funding project encouraging people to write cursive script during the exhibition.

Finally, regarding the classical form poem in the poster, the 龘 character implies the three out-party candidates making the election history. It is hard for the three sides to cooperate together and against the ruling party. If the current ruling party DDP won the election, Taiwan might get into war. This island is in danger. That is why Chien-Tung expose himself in such a high key mode (透鋒芒), comparing in the low key mode in the past 20 years. Speaking of encouraging more people to learn cursive script is difficult, the current cursive script writers are the minority of the minority, since most people do not have the intention to learn the Chinese Calligraphy, while people who learn Chinese Calligraphy might not practice cursive script. The only gain for people learning cursive script is speed. CHEN is challenging to acquire peace mirroring the three candidates to communion.