Deng Cheng Wen

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About the artwork

A bespectacled individual who bears a tentative smile leads his band of followers into the great unknown. Their eyes are concealed and they move forward completely dependent on the person before them - in reference to a generation of Chinese youth that refuse to open their eyes and think for themselves but succumb to conformity. The area around them is grim and the atmosphere despondent, whilst in the background the brilliance of a possible fire lights up a building. The entire image is surreal and ambiguous, leading the viewer to think about the implications for this generation of lost youth.

About the artist

In 1981, Deng Cheng Wen was born in Guangdong Province, China. He graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 and his works have been exhibited worldwide in places such as Hong Kong, Beijing and Miami. 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 while standing before the art.