理性的狂喜 The Ecstasy of Sense

The Ecstasy of Sense
Wei Xing

Chen Danyang’s works are of musicality. Music is a form of highly abstract art, the length and strength of scales, notes and syllables constitute a world with levels and structures. And Chen Danyang’s works are visual symphonies woven by color dots, blocks and warp and weft. He named them Bach：The Equal Temperaments.

The Well-tempered Clavier derives from a musician’s transcendent perception of cosmic order. The mysticism of religion and the rationalism of the Enlightenment are the two chromosomes of genes, which constitute the infinite rhythm of Bach’s music. It is a kind of passion that implies surge in order and structure. Thus, it is this structure of tension between sense and sensibility enlightens Chen Danyang’s artistic creation, and brings us the perceptual experience of Gestalt Psychology. In German, the word “Gestalt” represents the form of the entirety, emphasizing the grasp and perception of the whole, rather than the analysis and superposition of the parts. When immersed in the rhythms, levels and rules made of colors in the Bach：The Equal Temperaments series and trying to find a rational focus in the seemingly infinite color matrix, the viewers will find themselves already blended into a field of heart. Under the appearance of the extremely regular and rational images, the structure and order rotate and collapse, creating dizziness in which sense reaches a state of ecstasy and trance, and obtains a short transcendent perception in this state.