Cyano-Collage 179, 2023

Cyanotype photography, Xuan paper, acrylic gel, and acrylic mounted on aluminum board

59 x 29.5 in. (150 x 75 cm)

Unique

Wu Chi-Tsung
(b. 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan. Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan, Berlin, Germany, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

Wu Chi-Tsung's practice spans a variety of mediums including photography, installation, video, and mixed media. He is best known for his experimental and interdisciplinary explorations of spatiality and time, and innovative approach to reconsidering traditional Chinese art practices. This experimental spirit, coupled with Wu's seamless mastery of both Eastern and Western art techniques, led to the creation of his most recent Cyano-Collage series beginning in 2016. The Cyano-Collages are fabricated through a very physically demanding and time-consuming process using cyanotypes-a type of photographic technique invented in the mid-19th century that involves exposing photosensitive paper to sunlight-that the artist painstakingly collages to create sublime abstractions, beautifully exemplified by Cyano-Collage 179, 2023. The Cyano-Collages equally conjure vast seascapes and mountain vistas evocative of traditional Chinese Shan Shui (mountain-water) landscape painting.

Wu's first solo museum exhibition, Wu Chi-Tsung: Synchronicity, was organized by the Katonah Museum of Art in 2023. The artist has been the subject of numerous international group exhibitions at venues including: UBS Art Gallery, New York (2022); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (2021); St. George's Hall, Liverpool, UK (2018); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2016); and Asian Art Biennial, Taipei (2013). Wu's work is in public collections including M+, Hong Kong; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; among many others.