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As with all vagabonds, Kuo-Wei Lin's home is exile, an apparently contradictory state of alienation and proximity which is present in his work. Currently living in Berlin, Germany, this artist weaves a patchwork of influences, cultures, and incidents of daily life as he travels and learns. Although accomplished in many fields including photography and sculpture, he is not a specialist of form or sophisticated technique, but someone who tries to understand the odd in the ordinary, and the insignificant in the monumental. What is strange about all that is common?

How do we interact with this world? Kuo-Wei Lin combines the objects and the spaces that he finds to draw the spectator into questioning the present, he estranges our everyday, producing artefacts from trees, (Human Bonsai, 07 installation, New Cross, London) postcards, city centres or country roads and illicit dumps. Decoding and reconstructing the present, understanding an environment begins with identifying the exceptional, and making possible a novel interaction with it. 

 ‘You’re not doing the art but you’re composing the situation.’ David Hammons and so Kuo-Wei Lin is rigorous in his analysis, likewise ‘the less I do the more of an artist I am’ he believes in the existence of a work-spectator relation which may be beyond the presence of an artist, or an artist as an exile from a mediatic relation which he made possible.

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2008

18th İSTANBUL ART FAIR Tüyap Turkey

Koridoor Contemporary Art Programs

Curated by Denizhan Özer

11:00 - 20:00 hours between November 1 - 8, 2008,

and at 11:00 - 19:00 hours on November 9, 2008.

**  http://www.istanbulsanatfuari.com/

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2008

À l’Œuvre !

video screening

Saint-Thélo commune, Bretagne, France.

23 May - 25 May 2008

Vernissage: 24 May 2008, 18:30 pm

** http://st.thelo.free.fr/

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2008

Anyway the wind blows

ARTPORT Gallery, Berlin, Germany

26 April - 10 Mai 2008

opening: 25 April 2008, 20 pm

Biesenthaler Str 16

13359 Berlin

** http://www.koloniewedding.de/

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2008

Power of Flower

' Manggha ' Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków, Poland.

14 March - 20 April 2008

opening: 13 March 2008 Thursday at 18:00

Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej MANGGHA

ul. M. Konopnickiej 26

30-302 Kraków

** Manggha - Museum of Japanese Art and Technology

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SUMO STUDIO

Vibration Park

ComPeung, Artist in Residence Program, Chiang Mai,Thailand

December 2007 . January 2008

** SUMO STUDIO

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Chelsea College of Art and Design 2007

Masters degree show opening times:

Wednesday 19 September, 6pm-9pm (Private view by invitation only)

Thursday 20 September, 10am-8pm 

Friday 21 September, 10am-5pm

Saturday 22 September and Sunday 23 September, 10am-4pm

** www.chelsea2007.com