Tian Taiquan

The series of works on Crack by Taiquan Tian belongs to absurdism and shows us unexpected, different and strange images.

Not only can glass crack be set as concept symbol to clear up the actual objects, but also the narrow squaring space with the lengthways crack of doors, glasses and windows can bully the viewers involved in it with a sense of violence. Let alone those surrealistic combinations, violent and bloody scenes and the processing on the incomplete body, all of this come from the desire of destruction. What does the artist do? He is not satisfied with the on-the-spot photographing, because it will lead to the trap of routine standard of appreciation so that makes it become a part of common photographing. What artists need is the truth different from the actual presentation, which is the conflict between the absurdity of presentation and the concept. The tension between people and the world in Tian’s works is fully or even excessively represented. Actually speaking, I don’t like over exaggerated bloodiness and violence very much. I prefer to those little cracking works under the glaring light. As for art, concept is all for a profound sense, not profundity itself.