The future sense of integrating natural biological surreal design
Chen Longque, as an international emerging elite artist and an avant-garde designer of the American entertainment industry jointly recommended by the Rodin International Artist Foundation and [World Chinese Weekly], won the [International Art Exchange Contribution Award] of the Global Chinese Fine Art Golden Brush Award in 2023.
Chen Longque's design and art career has a legendary quality. Chen Longque, his father Chen Yungang (Yungang), and his younger brother Chen Dunhuang (Dunhuang) were named after the three major grottoes in China: Yungang, Longmen, and Dunhuang. They are known as the "Three Great Grottoes" in the Chinese art world. In addition to their father's sculpture work, Chen Longque and his younger brother Chen Dunhuang currently work on dedicated projects at a gaming company in California, USA. Perhaps influenced by the artistic atmosphere of their family, both Chen Longque and his younger brother began painting at the age of three. At seven years old, an exhibition was held for them at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. At eight years old, Shaanxi People's Education Publishing House published a picture book titled "Dragon Rules the World," which documented their extraordinary artistic expression surpassing nature's creatures. The massive winged monsters depicted in flight or roaming carry abundant information about biodiversity.
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At seventeen years old, Shaanxi People's Fine Arts Publishing House published the second edition of their picture book titled "Dragons Speak • Speaking Dragons," with extraordinary natural creatures still being the main focus of design. In 2023, Chen Longque was awarded the title of Senior Concept Designer by his gaming company in California where he works. Since entering this industry, with accumulated personal experience as a foundation, he has developed unique insights into entertainment industrial design segmentation. He said: "The main characteristic of my creations is surreal biomimetic mechanical design which differentiates from traditional science fiction concept designs that primarily feature characters; I have incorporated numerous elements from nature into mechanical designs." Audiences can perceive primal forms derived from natural creatures through my designs while retaining essential functions associated with mechanical concept design."
Through these works I aim to showcase a unique worldview, where in the future people will not only change their ways of seeing and thinking through biomimetic design but also manufacture enormous bio-intelligent mechanical devices to assist humanity in better survival and development within a harsh world.”
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Chen Longque's vision and perspective in his design art career originated from two opportunities in life, namely studying industrial design at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts and later studying entertainment illustration design at the Art Center College of Design in the United States. In 2010, when Chen Longque was studying industrial design at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, he went against the trend for his graduation project and did not pursue practical industrial design. Instead, he created a set of game concept designs called "New World War". This unique concept design attracted attention from the School of Design because it boldly attempted innovative ideas in the field of industrial design. It received the "Dean's Nomination Award" for graduation works at the graduation ceremony of China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. Later, recommended by the head of Automotive Design Department at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Chen Longque went to study entertainment illustration at Art Center College of Design located in California, USA in 2014. In 2018, Chen Longque and his younger brother Chen Dunhuang presented their outstanding graduation project from Art Center College of Design to be exhibited further at the main campus headquarters. With this achievement, Chen Longque has realized two leaps forward in his artistic studies.
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Since 2017, Chen Longque has continued to create personal paintings while working, gradually combining the morphology of organisms with mechanical design to create a new surreal biomimetic mechanical design. This new form has become the main style of Chen Longque's creations, incorporating both the realism and rigor of traditional industrial design and the imagination and playfulness of entertainment design. Examples include illustrations such as "Elephant Vehicle," "Lizard Vehicle," and "Spider Vehicle" in the tank series. These biomimetic fantasy machines, based on elephants, lizards, spiders, and other creatures, incorporate military or civilian elements with abundant realistic details and realistic expression techniques to present viewers with a strange and believable science fiction world. It can be seen that at the core of Chen Longque's bio-mechanical series is a reverence for natural life and a desire for future intelligent technological intervention. Over these years of creation, he has increasingly skillfully combined biological elements with mechanical design to bring about interesting designs, ultimately creating his own hard science fiction works with unique emotions and cultural characteristics.
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Since 2017, Chen Longque has continued to create personal paintings while working,gradually combining the morphology of organisms with mechanical design to createa new surreal biomimetic mechanical design.This new form has become the main style of Chen Longque's creations, incorporating both the realism and rigor of traditional industrial design and the imagination and playfulness of entertainment design. Examples include illustrations such as "Elephant Vehicle," "Lizard Vehicle,"and "Spider Vehicle" in the tank series. These biomimetic fantasy machines, based on elephants, lizards, spiders, and other creatures, incorporate military or civilian elements with abundant realistic details and realistic expression techniques to present viewers with a strange and believable science fiction world. It can be seen that at the core of Chen Longque's bio-mechanical series is a reverence for natural life and a desire for future intelligent technological intervention. Over these years of creation, he has increasingly skillfully combined biological elements with mechanical design to bring about interesting designs, ultimately creating his own hard science fiction works with unique emotions and cultural characteristics.
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If, Chen Longque's biomimetic mechanical design illustrations bring viewers an experience that is both imaginative and follows absolute scientific rationality, then the smooth lines of Chen Longque's hand-drawn work "Biological City Series" with markers are like the elegance of "taking a walk with lines", expressing visual charm that combines fantastical imagination and future design sense. In Chen Longque's "Biological City Series" works, a freely roaming crocodile carries classical Chinese architecture on its back, a rhinoceros, an antelope, and even a tree are covered in classical Chinese architecture. This design combining natural elements of life with classical Chinese architecture exudes a strong Eastern sentimentality and always brings viewers incredible and awe-inspiring emotions. For Chen Longque, whether it is the hard science fiction surreal biomimetic mechanical design or the fantastical surreal post-life phenomenon design, it is both real and illusory, close yet distant... This fusion of natural organisms in futuristic surreal designs not only brings passion and joy to Chen Longque's creations but also endless shock and contemplation to viewers.
