Daxi Sacred Dragon
Daxi Sacred Dragon
Zhongzhuang Retention Basin is a livelihood facility that can regulate, filter and improve water quality. In the meaning of "protecting the land and creating life", the artist tries to find the same important ecological creatures in the natural environment as the adjustment pool, such as five-colored birds, tree frogs, bats, brook fish, etc. . With figurative abstraction and then re-kneading into a figurative shape, and referring to the image of the dragon child "owl tail" that often appears in the local architecture of Daxi, a mythical beast guarding the waters is created to respond to the meaning and evoke the water source, ecological connection and life are closely related reflections.
Material：Iron metal square tube, color material, tile strip, color sapwood
Dimensions：7m(L) x 4m(W) x 10m(H)
Wang, Zhen-Wei
Taiwan
He is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts of National Changhua Normal University. He is good at large-scale sculpture and has a number of public art creation experiences. His works often concern the essence of life, and he thinks about the power of art to enrich the land and humanities. His works often use the collected driftwood to be cleaned, cleaned, painted and colored, giving the discarded wood a new meaning of regeneration. At the same time, with the careful estimation of the gravity structure and the support of iron pieces, the colorful driftwood is assembled and erected to form various pieces of the work. style. The artist has participated in the gorgeous masks of the 2020 Kinmen "Baisha Secret Art Season", the geometry of the "2021 Stall + 1 Art Season", the 2021 Pingtung Falling Mountain Art Season, and the 2022 Changhua Day Art Festival, etc., and has a wealth of landscape creations. experience.