Gang Chen 陳 剛
Through the dislocation of objects and scenes, illusions and strange experiences, Gang Chen hopes to spiritualize the ritual of Wall Street and rethink human civilization and its more basic animal instincts. He wants to raise the awareness of cheapness versus the relationship between mankind and richness, in Wall Street which represents the economic center of the world. He would like to demonstrate the side of mankind that is unable to express a combination of feelings such as distress mixed with ecstasy; aesthetic beauty with dysfunction.
Gang Chen was born in China and studied art at Nanjing Art Academy and the Central Academy of Drama in China. He received a MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in London and studied film production at the New York University. Gang Chen’s multi-media art works have been exhibited in John Moore’s Liverpool Biennial, Institute of Contemporary Art ( ICA) in London, Ethan Cohen and Crossing Art in New York. His works is represented in important public collections such as the James Moores Collection in London, the Bank of China, and the Delfina Entrecanales Family Collection in Spain. He currently lives and works in New York, NY and Beijing, China.
