CAFx RAM Talk: Breaking Through the Ceiling of the Possibility of Glass Art Creation
19th August, 2018 SHMOG
How have educators and artists specializing in glass art gradually developed their understandings on glass?
Zheng Wenqing, a glass artist and professional educator teaching glass art, shared with the audience how she has formed her own understandings on glass and what challenges and interesting stories she has experienced during her teaching.
Liao Fei, a young artist who has tried various materials for different art expressions during his creation, also joined this talk. Liao explained how glass differs from other materials in art creation.
After sharing their ideas about glass art creation and changed understandings on glass based on their personal experiences, Zheng and Liao talked about their visions of glass art creation.
This talk is jointly organized by Rockbund Art Museum and Shanghai Museum of Glass Park. It is sponsored and supported by Chance Art Foundation.


Liao Fei
Liao Fei was born in Jiangxi in 1981 and graduated from shanghai Normal University in 2006. Liao is based in Shanghai now.Liao Fei’s practice originates from his doubts about his surroundings and his own self. He tries to approach “things” through his practice, employing physical materials through external forms of art to reveal the problems inherent in things. Confronting his art with an attitude of instrumental rationality, he strives to produce a perceptive intensity through thinking, logics and abstract concepts. His works transform the sense of balance intrinsic to mathematics into visual languages. Through his minimal, and almost solely linguistic expressions, we are then enabled to experience the presence of mathematical, logical and abstract things.
Zheng Wenqin
Zheng Wenqing, born in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province, is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at China Academy of Art, and a member of China Sculpture Institute. Zheng obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in 2001 and a Master’s Degree in 2009 at China Academy of Art. From 2005 to 2014, she visited the Glass Studio at the Fine Arts College at Shanghai University, the Glass Workshop at the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University and Pilchuck Glass School in the US as a senior visiting scholar. She co-authored the book Creation of Liuli Crystal, and published essays The Magical Art: On Klaus Moje’s Glass Art in Journal of the National Academy of Art, On the Suckers Phenomenon During Glass Kilning in China Science and Technology Achievements and Modeling Experiments to Explore the Internal Glass Based on the Hot Glass Casting Technology in Preservation and Development: Collection of Essays on Chinese Traditional Crafts and Modeling.
Xu Tiantian
Xu Tiantian graduated from Fine Arts College of Shanghai University and École supérieure des beaux-arts Tours Angers Le Mans. She joined Rockbund Art Museum in 2014 as curator manager. She has been involved in the production of several solo exhibitions of both Chinese and international artists including Chen Zhen, Heman Chong, Ugo Rondinone, Mark Bradford, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Lin Tianmiao and Francis Alÿs as well as group exhibition such as ”Hugo Boss Asia Art”(2015, 2017) ; “RAM HIGHLIGHT: Zhang Ding: Devouring Time” (2016); “Tell Me A Story: Locality and Narrative” (2016); “RAM HIGHLIGHT: DISPLAY” (2017); and “Walking On The Fade Out Lines”(2018). In 2017, she and Liu Yingjiu, deputy director of Rockbund Art Museum co-curated the exhibition “Song Dong: I Don’t Know the Mandate of Heaven”.
CAFx RAM Talk: Breaking Through the Ceiling of the Possibility of Glass Art Creation
19th August, 2018 SHMOG
How have educators and artists specializing in glass art gradually developed their understandings on glass?
Zheng Wenqing, a glass artist and professional educator teaching glass art, shared with the audience how she has formed her own understandings on glass and what challenges and interesting stories she has experienced during her teaching.
Liao Fei, a young artist who has tried various materials for different art expressions during his creation, also joined this talk. Liao explained how glass differs from other materials in art creation.
After sharing their ideas about glass art creation and changed understandings on glass based on their personal experiences, Zheng and Liao talked about their visions of glass art creation.
This talk is jointly organized by Rockbund Art Museum and Shanghai Museum of Glass Park. It is sponsored and supported by Chance Art Foundation.


Liao Fei
Liao Fei was born in Jiangxi in 1981 and graduated from shanghai Normal University in 2006. Liao is based in Shanghai now.Liao Fei’s practice originates from his doubts about his surroundings and his own self. He tries to approach “things” through his practice, employing physical materials through external forms of art to reveal the problems inherent in things.

Zheng Wenqin
Zheng Wenqing, born in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province, is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at China Academy of Art, and a member of China Sculpture Institute. Zheng obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in 2001 and a Master’s Degree in 2009 at China Academy of Art. From 2005 to 2014, she visited the Glass Studio at the Fine Arts College at Shanghai University, the Glass Workshop at the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University and Pilchuck Glass School in the US as a senior visiting scholar.