Tingwei Li
Projektbeschreibung
1. Find appropriate public space in Kulturanker to install my finished works, mainly geometric or minimal abstract sculptures and installation various depending on different spaces. ( works like „shelter“ „ blocks“ „ seesaw“, I am also considering about a project relevant to „fish tank“)There is no specific target community. For all audiences.
2 I’ve been making some sculptures and installation in studio for half years, which related to playground and kindergarten. As I said in statement „ In the concept of “Playground” and “Kindergarten” series of works, I pursue the purity and basic. It is resembled of toys and reconstruction of imaging children’s world from an adult’s view, but asking questions to everyone’s past experiences. I leave clues for people to entering in my logic, I set up naive and simple objects or arrangements, without pre-design for convincing viewers to participate in. „ I want to detach the possibility of approaching the toys, to de-functional, by simplify, enlarge, decrease, abstract and reappear, and let the viewers step into a powerless position, which is familiar, yet strange, with a desire to play but feeling playless. These objects are with simply forms, bright colors, and share very familiar experiences with all people’s childhood memories. I personally want to have some “naïve” and “pure” in my works, but when they become an extreme, instead will be lost and the motive appeared even more. So they are adults’ wishes, accompanied by melancholy sense. It is not difficult to have interaction between these objects and viewers’ emotion.
3. So in a public space, not a gallery space or artist studio, viewer would definitely feel participation involved those objects. „Success“ means to me, when there was Interaction between them, the viewer come near to them and try to figure out the relationship between them, both privately and socially. The objects are not cold, solid art pieces. playground
Kurzvita
Education
• Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin, Germany
• Fine Arts, October, 2011 – present
• Hunter College of The City University of New York. NYC, USA
• MFA program in Art Department, August, 2014 – January, 2015
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• University of Bremen. Bremen, Germany
Visiting student in the College of Pedagogical Education, October, 2010 – June, 2011
• Tongji University of Shanghai. Shanghai, China
• Studied Photography and German, 2008-2010
