Vinci Weng
I am a practicing artist and professor of fine art. With a rich artistic journey spanning four decades, I have been participating in numerous exhibitions and receive many awards internationally. I have been a gallery artist for YellowKorner Art Photography in Paris, France since 2018.
By referencing painting and film, my work is focused on the re-thinking of a ‘cinematographic’ picture which presents the East-West pictorial concepts; it also associates with the ideas between realism and surrealism. My image can be described as representing a fictitious world of its own, with an intriguing organization of fields, depths, scales and colours which is the central subject to my work. My photograph is fantastic set in a fictional universe, often inspired by our real world; it is without specific place or venue. Specifically, these works have a group of magic events that invites the viewer into the wonder tales of my utopia, in which both natural and artificial realities exist at the same time in the fictitious landscapes.
For my digital composite photographs, I do not use AI-generated tools nor stock images, only relying on complex manipulations of my own photographic images captured on locations. My idea, plan, post-production and photographs are all seamlessly connected in order to achieve visual strength of the final result. The working process is painstakingly, and needs to spend several months to produce a large-scale work. My current exploration of work focuses on unraveling surreal vistas and post-photographic aesthetics, masterfully portrayed in my evocative and painterly compositions.
