Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is delighted to join other 40 top art galleries from around the world to exhibit in the 2022 Art Solo, which will take place at EXPO Dome, Taipei Expo Park in Taipei and will run from April 15 (Fri.) to 17 (Sun.), 2022. Double Square Gallery showcases two Taiwanese artists in this exhibition, including Huang Hai-Hsin (Booth E08) and Chen Wan-Jen (Booth E09).《On the Move》series by Huang Hai-Hsin records the moments while she travels around the world, and interprets what she saw in her paintings. In addition to capturing the humanity in contemporary society, she also uses a rich, vibrant and saturated palette to demonstrate the dishes that she had. Artist Chen Wan-Jen use《Ocean Is the Color of Time》as the exhibition title, featuring in summer ambiance. Through aerial photography and Image Matting, Chen applies videos and installations to interpret the repeated movements of human beings and turn those fragments into eternity.

Huang Hai-Hsin’s series《On the Move》, presenting the life of the artist traveling around the world. Scenes include the panic buying crowd in the shopping mall, the elders resting in the parks, the cycling team racing to the peak and etc. Huang captures the scenes in life and transforms them into paintings, which vividly show what she sees, and experiences in her life to the viewers. Inspired by events and situations in daily life, Huang captures the amusing and awkward moments and focuses on all kinds of intriguing plots or the theatrical atmosphere. With humorous, entertaining composition reminiscing of journalistic photos and substantial and straightforward lines, she portrays the life of a spectrum of ordinary people in this world and exposes the subtle and neurotic moments of absurdity that inform the interpersonal relationships of the times, politics, society, and family. According to Huang Hai-Hsin, “I am always feeling very fortunate to be a creator. Painting creates a way for me to extract a part of my living experience and view things from a distance. It helps me to evaluate things from a more open-minded perspective.”

The theme《Ocean is the Color of Time》, artist Chen Wan-Jen showcases the scenes on the beach. By picturing people swimming in the ocean, taking a walk on the beach, enjoying sunbathing and etc, Chen employs drones to capture these human activities at the seaside. Using the matting techniques Chen has brought to perfection, he leads the audience to experience every moment of the image repeatedly for a long time, and it also contains a deep insight into the present. Chen represents the elapsing fragments of time in his works as alienated and mechanical dynamic objects, to which he attaches his concerns and critique that make the images oscillate between realities and illusions. He also attempts to identify the significance embedded in these fragments of time, trying to frame the pictures of ephemeral time and space by creating scenes of extremely quotidian existence. According to the artist, “people look like plants properly distanced by the spatial arrangement, which not only leaves behind habitual behavior and understanding of social life in the past but also creates an unprecedented impact in terms of what we see in daily life.”

Artist Introduction:

• Huang Hai-Hsin (b. 1984) was born in Taipei. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2009. She was awarded Honorable Mention in the Taipei Arts Awards of 2011. In recent years, she has presented solo exhibitions at the Art Basel Hong Kong, the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany and the ISE Culture Foundation, New York. Her works have been exhibited in Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul, Paris, New York, and Shanghai, and have been showcased in the 12th Taipei Biennial in 2020, respectively presented at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France. Her works are included in the collections of various prestigious art institutions, among which are the White Rabbit Gallery in Australia; Leipzig in Germany; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the UBS Art Collection; and the Yageo Foundation.

• Chen Wan-Jen (b. 1982) was born in Hsinchu. He received his BFA from National Taiwan University of Arts in 2005, and was the recipient of Taipei Art Awards in 2006. In 2012, he was invited to participate in the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. His works have been showcased multiple times in New York, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Tokyo and many more as well as featured in various major art museums and art galleries in Taiwan. Currently a high-profile video artist in the art scene, his works are included in the collections of White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), Hubei Museum of Art (China), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, etc.