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Hung-Chih
Peng in MIT, List Center Media Test Wall
“Hung-Chih
Peng, The Heart Sutra , (2005) Single Channel DVD, 14 min. 20
sec. Courtesy of Virgil de Voldere Gallery.”
Dates : July 9-September 7,
2007
For
more info please go to:
http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/exhibitions/index.html Like
a modern Aesop, the Taiwanese artist Hung-Chih Peng invites us
to consider our human behaviors and spiritual aspirations
through four recent works featuring dogs. In One Black/One
White (2001) dogs act out the human foible of envy to their
own detriment. In the Canine Monk series (2007) they write
beautiful Zen Buddhist, Daoist meditations and protective
charms with their tongues. As they perform the role of human
surrogates in these works they remain dogs, relating to each
other, the world, and spiritual realities as dogs do, so that
we may learn from them in strictly canine terms.
Hung-Chih
Peng was born in Keelung (Tawain) in 1969. He lives and works
in Taipei and New York. Most recently his work has been
included in the 10th International Istanbul Biennial (2007).
Other group exhibitions include Remote/Control , the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2007), Taiwan: From within the
Mist , Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota / Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for
Contemporary Asian Art / Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center and
Ransbury Gallery, University of Indianapolis, Indiana / the
Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Georgia / the
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2007). Among his
solo exhibitions are those at AMT Gallery, Como, Italy (2007),
Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York (2007), Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council, New York (2006), Eastern Connecticut State
University Arkus Gallery, Connecticut (2004), and the O. K.
Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria (2002).
This
presentation of the Media Test Wall is generously supported by
the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Council for the
Arts at MIT. The
Media Test Wall, an ongoing series of contemporary video
exhibitions, is located in the Whitaker Building (21 Ames St.,
Bldg. 56) on the MIT campus.
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