The Terrain of Taiwan Contemporary Art
6/10 (Sat) - 7/16/2017 (Sun)
Lee Jiun-Shyan, Chiu Kuo-Chun, Lin Shu-Kai, Hou Chun-Ming, Dean-E Mei, Zhang Xu-Zhan, Yang Mao-Lin
Lee Jiun-Shyan
Born in 1957, grew up in a seaport, and later resided abroad in New York. He has once held the position of director in Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, devoting himself to developing Taiwan’s local art and culture. In his paintings, we may get a strong Taiwanese sense of land consciousness and emotion, which reveal a rich local flavor. Through the paint, he vigorously represents local human warmth, history, environment, living creatures, and even language and popular culture on canvas.
Chiu Kuo-Chun
Concentrates on representing another side of Taiwan environment and culture with multi-mediums or photo-image. He tries to challenge the values of the contemporary sociality. Under his different concept, Kuo-Chun usually crossed the different field and combines different art materials to present his concept, and given the viewers various possibilities of art experience.
Lin Shu-Kai
Born 1984 in Tainan Taiwan, received his BFA at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and MFA from the Taipei National University of the Arts, in 2007 Lin was nominated for Scholarship of Zhang Xin-Long award, and in 2011 held a solo exhibition in the Life Science Library, Academia Sinica , he has exhibited in various locations around the world including, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, Germany, etc. During 2013 Lin has been a residency artist in GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany. His works has been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.currently living and working in Tainan. The "Balcony City Civilization Quotation ─ Lin Shu-Kai Solo Exhibition" present a series of works by Lin Shu-Kai concerning his personal life experiences and reproducing historical connections, concealing various symbols of civilization within the works, projecting the internalized objects and imagination of the artist. From the repeatedly stacked structures of the civilized world, the artist tries to create a surreal but at the same time real emotions and memories of cityscape, the self-believed totem system is transformed into a fable-like map, discretely reflects Lin Shu-Kai’s imagination of home.
Hou Chun Ming
Born in Liuchiao Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan in 1963. A graduate from the National Arts Academy (Now Taipei National University of the Arts), He was first known by his installations and woodcut prints during the 90s that seriously challenged the status quo of Taiwanese politics and social taboos at the time through his uncanny and ritualistic provocations. Hou Chun Ming was invited twice to attend the Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2013, respectively. In recent years, he has been focusing on a quest of exploring the faiths and spirits of Taiwanese cultures through both sketches and writings. The current “The Asian Father Interview Project” is born out of this period of a spiritual journey towards one’s innermost self. It has been going on since 2008 and has held exhibitions in Yokohama, Taipei, Taichung, Bangkok, Chiayi and Hong Kong. His most recent work “Body Map” once again uses ethnographic research techniques and methodologies to transform bodily desires into artistic expressions. He published several books：”Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals” by China Times Publishing; “A Suicide Message of Dying on Love at Age 36” by Locus Publishing; “Grain Rain‧Amorous Affair” by Cans Art; “The Caution in Mirror” by Psygarden Publishing : “Legend Hou’s Sin & Punishment” by Garden City Publishing; “Suffer from Desires: Hou Chun Ming's Free Drawing” by Psygarden Publishing.
Mei Dean-E
Born in Taipei in 1954, Dean-E Mei is a highly respected and representative figure in Taiwan’s avant-garde art community. Mei graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Chinese Culture University in 1977, and received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in New York in 1985. He avoided traditional representational painting, opting instead for the rebellious spirit of Dadaism and its ready-made format. Relying on the rules of paradox and the notion of “seemingly so, but not so,” Mei created his visual language and artistic style. Mei also collects and transforms common objects, which he then uses in his long-term concern with identity and political ideology. While this may seem like weighty subject matter, Mei’s works are also full of humor and wit.
Zhang Xu Zhan
Mores Zhan B .1988 Taiwan.Contemporary artists & anima director.His Contemporary art animation is full of fantasy absurd social images and Multiple nonlinear narrative extension video, his work is social nature of animation to explore the fantasy Installation. Now Life in Taipei ,Study in Taipei National University of the Arts (MFA).2012 new works《Ritual of Cathode Ray Tube》was published in the
Yang Mao-lin
Yang was the first director and a founding member of the Taipei School, in 1991 he won the first Art Creation Award of Hsiung Shih Fine Arts; his works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including his first solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; in 1990 he participated in the Taiwan Art Museum Exhibition "300 years of Taiwan Art"; in 1995 his works were included in the "Exhibition of Taiwanese Art" in Rome. Yang Mao-lin's works represent a segment of Taiwanese history and build up time/space juxtapositions; they take a critical and even subversive view of Taiwanese historical events. Since the 1990s, he has criticized Taiwanese social phenomena under the long-term influence of American culture and Japanese culture. Then he added multiple-media in his installation work to respond to current Taiwan society. Yang has been frequently invited to participate in international art exhibitions. In 1999, his early series of Zeelandia Memorandum was shown at the 48th Venice Biennale and was well received by international art critics and collectors.