PAST & CURRENT EVENTS
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THE ART FOR HUMANITY WORLD TOUR
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The
Art For Humanity Exhibition
T.F. Chen Cultural Center , SoHo
NYC: This bold, powerful exhibit showcases 30 original paintings
by Dr. Chen as well as dozens of available prints. Many of these
major works have shown at the United
Nations, the State
of the World Forum, the God
& World Peace Conference, etc. All sales of Museum Store
gift items, art books and prints go towards raising funds for
the “Art For Humanity World Tour.” Group tours available.
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The
Dalai Lama Portrait Project
The Committee of 100 for Tibet and
the Dalai Lama
Foundation have invited Dr. Chen to paint a portrait of
the renowned spiritual leader of Tibet.
The project will begin with an invitation to approximately 50
well-respected artists, to create works that they feel will
not just capture an essence of His Holiness but will inspire
others to emulate his actions. Their art will be displayed in
a series of exhibitions in cities throughout the world including
San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Zurich, Tallinn, Prague,
Moscow, Johannesburg, San Jose (Costa Rica), Taipei, Seoul and
Tokyo. Artists, celebrities and C100/DLF members will attend
the exhibitions. Local communities will be involved in the development
of festivities surrounding the exhibitions.”
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Artist-In-Residence, Paris
This summer, Cite
des Arts Paris has invited Dr. Chen to be an Artist-in-Residence
at their school in Paris, France. Dr. Chen will be painting
Parisian landscapes and showing these new works at the school
from Sept. 8 – 18 th, 2004
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The Flag Project
The Rubin Museum of Art has asked Dr. Chen to
design a flag for their new opening on Saturday, October 2 nd,
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Tourism
For Peace
Dr.
Chen’s “A Glance of Taiwan” Exhibit To Promote
Taiwan’s “Tourism For Peace.” (At the T.F.
Chen Cultural Center, 2fl; 5/13 - 5/24, 2004).
For Taiwanese-American
Heritage Week, the T.F. Chen Cultural Center hosted an exhibition
of Taiwanese landscape paintings by Dr. T.F. Chen from May 13th
– 24th, 2004 at the Center’s second floor gallery.
Chen maintains studios both in New York and Taipei and has continued
to work and exhibit internationally. When he is in Taiwan, Chen
loves to paint landscapes that express the remarkable beauty
of his beloved homeland. Although the natural environment of
the “Ilha Formosa” has been affected by modernization,
Chen points out that one would still be astonished by the exquisite
scenery that he has experienced deep in the countryside, along
the seashores and high up in the mountains.
Having toured the island countless
times in his career, Dr. Chen has captured the landscape of
Taiwan from north to south. Of particular interest, he has painted
scenes from Danshui, Yangming-shan, Honghsi, Yeliu, Hwalien,
Kending, Tainan, Mt. Ali, Mt. Jade, and Meilong, to name a few.
Since “Tourism for Peace”
has become an international movement, Dr. Chen, as the recipient
of the Global Tolerance Award, would like to employ his art
towards that purpose. As many of the aforementioned sites have
been promoted for tourism in Taiwan, it seems that Dr. Chen’s
captivating images of his beloved homeland would be a very appropriate
place to start.
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"Neo-Iconography"
at Global Art Venue, Seattle
Familiar Icons in Unfamiliar Ways by Dr. T.F. Chen
Global Art Venue is proud to present
the work of Dr. T. F. Chen (8/2003).
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TAIWAN
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Dr. T.F. Chen and
Mme. Lucia Chen met with the newly-elected President Chen Shuei-bian
of Taiwan in the Presidential Palace (1/2003).
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Dr. & Mme.
Chen at the God & World Peace Conference.
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"Neo-Iconography"
at Global Art Venue, Seattle
Familiar Icons in Unfamiliar Ways by Dr. T.F. Chen
Global Art Venue is proud to present the
work of Dr. T. F. Chen. Chen is a painter, writer, art historian and
visionary. Born in Taiwan and educated in France, Chen earned a Ph.D
in art history from La Sorbonne, where he established his theory of
"Five-Dimensional World Culture" in 1969 and initiated "Neo-
Iconography" in art.
Neo-Iconography is a daring form of communication.
It unites East and West, past and present, by organizing and combining
familiar "icons" in unfamiliar ways. Recognized as "one
of the twenty most influential artists in the world today," Dr.
Chen has conducted more than 100 one-man exhibitions worldwide.
Global Art Venue FINE ART |
Since
1970, Dr. T. F. Chen has held more than 100 one-man shows in Asia,
Europe, and the Americas. Dr. Chen's recent and current exhibitions
include:
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Dr. T. F. Chen shows
permanently in his Museum Building at 250 Lafayette Street in
SoHo, NYC. |
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On April 20th, 2002,
Dr. Chen opened his exhibit at the Jacob Gelt Dekker Institute
for Advanced Cultural Studies on the occasion of the Grand Opening
of Kura
Hulanda, one of the newest and most dynamic World-Class
Cultural Centers, located on a Dutch-Colonial UNESCO World Heritage
site in Willemstad, Curacao. |
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Dr. Chen exhibited
and lectured at the Taiwan
Center in San Diego, CA; Houston, TX and in Los Angeles,
CA (May 11 - July 30th 2002; January 2003). |
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Dr. Chen's "Jade
Mountain: Love and Peace Series" is currently traveling
on a three-year touring exhibition in Taiwan (July 20th, 2000
- October 20th, 2002). |
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On December 11th,
2001, Dr. T. F. Chen was the first artist-painter to receive
a "Global Tolerance Award"
from the United Nations. Dr. Chen was honored for his
lifetime of work dedicated to peace, tolerance and love; and
for his art of multiculturalism; a body of work expressing a
shared vision of humanity. As a desig-nated "Cultural
Ambassador for Tolerance and Peace" with the Friends
of the United Nations, Dr. Chen is working in partnership with
the FUN for a World Art Campaign called: "Building
A Culture of Tolerance and Peace through the Arts." |
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In 1998 and 2000, Dr. T. F. Chen was invited to exhibit his
masterpieces at the State of the World Forum. The State
of the World Forum 2000 brought together over 1,000 key leaders
from around the world in the fields of business, politics, science,
technology, education, and the humanities in a combination of
lectures, roundtable discussions, and social events focused
on issues affecting us all. For more information on the State
of the World Forum, please visit www.worldforum.org.
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