Biography
Deng Cheng Wen’s Blind Walking series captures the collective ambition, ignorance and emotional flurry within the young Chinese of his generation. His works adopt a concept-based approach in order to seek a depth and complexity – at a level that causes some of its viewers to recognize personal truths when standing before the art. For an emerging artist, Deng’s insight into the issues unique to his generation is encouraging. Despite his youth, his message is compelling and pertinent while his arresting compositions attest to his immaculate attention to detail. The strong compulsion to express himself on the condition of his generation suggests that some have already started to see and will lead their compatriots towards a more meaningful future. And rightly so, this collective ambition is directed towards their infatuation with still-life techniques. Because modern life is multi-faceted, they cannot hope to achieve the public consensus that Yang Fei Yun's garners. However they have to veer away from simplistic representations of single-faceted beauty.
Through his own sensitivities, Deng has re-constructed a new visual experience that evokes the spirit whilst creating an art that integrates both symbolism and metaphors. Deng’s works counter the clash between perceptions of image and language. Of course the separation between language and image in order to find his own method of creation is consciously derived from his personal history. This method of painting is heavily imbued with symbolism and gradually fashions Deng’s eventual painting style. Deng’s works are a stunning display of the contradicting visual imagery that many in his generation encounter daily in their lives. His analysis often presents itself in the arena between imagery and language, with a biasness towards the unstable flux of their times.
