Double Square 双方藝廊

Shi-Chi Lee (b.1938), born in Gouningtou, Kinmen, graduated from the Provincial Taipei Normal College. Winner of the National Award for Arts in 2012, also recognized as a modern artist who received numerous international prizes. His experimental nature in media creation is often referred to as The Bird of Artistic Variations, a highly implicated oriental humanistic concept. During the development of the Chinese art modernization movement in post-war Taiwan, Lee was known as an outstanding artist who made a great deal of contribution in promoting Taiwan’s modern art internationally.

Chu-sheng Yeh (b.1946), born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Successively graduated from National Taiwan University of Fine Arts and San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Yeh’s artistic practice by using seeds and ocean as main elements to explore the relationship between society and nature, known as the first artist to explore and reveal the reality of issues regarding the environment through art. He explores the connotation of traditional Chinese culture within the form of abstract expressionism as his language of art. Extracts elements provided by nature and transforms into subjective romanticism objects. Yeh’s creation takes his own experiences and observations by using varied mediums and transforming into a sense of sensibility, referring to a unique lifestyle with colour and symbols. With the changes in life, allows him to realise the meaning of individuality of all beings, which becomes his main concept in creation.

Wei-Ho Wang (b.1961), born in Taipei, Taiwan. Successively obtained Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991 and 1993, and was awarded for Taipei 228 Memorial Museum first prize. He was also shortlisted for the 1996 Taipei Biennale and 2002 Taiwan Collateral Event for the 8th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia in Italy. With an erudite creative and academic background, he soon afterwards devoted into education as a professor and Chair in Graduate Institute of Architecture, Tainan National University of the Arts, while continuing his artistic creation since 1997. Wang’s creative practice is based on exploring the relationship between people and space. Gathering monochrome, attribute or mathematical objects, turning into mixed media planarized painting in order to construct a cross-dimensional visual, quietly expressing the spirituality of repetitive and quantified vocabulary.

Yin Hai Wu (b.1970), born in Kinmen and currently based in Chiayi, Taiwan. After completing the Bachelor of Fine Arts at National Institute of the Arts in 1993, he continued his studies at the Institute of Plastic Arts of National Tainan University of the Arts, and obtained Master of Fine Arts in 2001. Wu explores the relationship of trinity among works, media, and self as an artist through the imagery of lyrical abstraction. Reflecting no matter how the world rapidly changes, all beings shall eventually transform into an orderly development according to the laws of nature. This is an ever changing world, while spirituality and materiality are generated, its relationships will therefore influence one another. “Through the colors, brush strokes, and blank spaces in works, my creations are in response to though everything is not exactly alike , yet they naturally, spiritually circulate and intertwine with each other in order to achieve a harmonious perception.” Awards and recognitions are 1st Chin Hsiao Creation Award, first prize of Tao-Yuan Artists Group Exhibition of Applied Arts, New Artist Award of 1st Taipei Art Fair. Wu’s works not only have been showcased in varied institutions, but also collected by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kuando Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Xiao Qin International Culture and Arts Foundation.

Wu Meng-Chang (b.1971), received Master of Fine Arts from Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts in 2003. Wu’s creation mainly focuses on stone sculpture, exploring the relationship between the correspondence of external environment and individual self, so as to achieve a state of calmness and tranquillity. He often follows the pristine state of the medium to perceive accumulated life experiences. Attempting to manifest the character of stones in corresponding traces along with the essence of nature through penetrating, grinding, cracking and integrating in creative process. The section of stones preserved in works are the essence of nature made under artificial intervention. The presentation is also a way of bilateral dialogue regarding the composition, between Wu’s and the media.

Chen Shiau-Peng (b.1976), born in Penghu, and currently based in Taipei. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at National Taipei University of the Arts, she studied abroad in the States and received a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York in 2001. Later, she travelled to Melbourne and obtained a doctorate of Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2009. With an abundant academic background in art and exhibition experiences, she is active in international industry. She has held solo exhibitions in art institutions such as Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Sydney SNO Contemporary Art Project, and also selected as the artist-in-residence at Gyeongju Arts Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown, 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles, and Taipei Artist Village.

Wu Shang-Yung (b.1988), born and currently based in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2015, he obtained a Master of Painting and Calligraphy Arts from National Taiwan University of Arts. Wu was the chairman of the 12th Association of the Visual Arts in Taiwan. Having long been devoted to paintings, images, and installations. Wu’s works feature the deconstruction of daily phenomena and the dialects of inertial logic, which explores the shift of the essence with diverse and non-linear thinking. Wu’s creative expression combines eastern philosophies of Zhuangzi and Laozi, visual psychology and sociology. He endeavors to construct tranquil and poetic surrealistic realms through the rich entwinement of spiritual insights and thoughts.

Jui-Chien Hsu (b.1994), born in Miaoli, Taipei-based artist. Graduated with a Master in Sculpture from the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of the Arts. He has been actively showcased in various well known art institutions, not only exhibited in the group show— “Nets of Fragmented Memories” in Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and “Places of Being - Space and Materiality in Taiwan ‘s Avant-Garde. 1980-2021” in National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, but also has held numerous solo exhibition in galleries. Hsu’s creation may appear to be neat and rational, the connection of contour and metal board seem to be in compliance with a set of logic that cannot be disturbed. Yet, he desires in seeking the sensual intimacy between physical behaviour and material components. Re-experiencing from a detached perception by breaking the principle of everyday life and restoring it to an uncertain state. In the time frame of intertwining, rubbing, detaching and reshaping in the process of intercourse with materials in creation, we will regain another possibility of reading materials, awakening a certain unknown consciousness beyond movement and quality of objects.