Double Square 双方藝廊

．Taipei
Date 28 Jul 2018 - 09 Sep 2018
Location Chunu Gallery, Taipei
Opening 29 Jul 2018 Sun 2PM

．Tainan
Date 14 Jul 2018 - 30 Sep 2018
Location Remarkable Cultivation Art Gallery(No.370, Sec.1, Linsen Rd., Tainan City)
Opening 22 Jul 2018 Sun PM

Since its germination in Europe during the first decade of the previous century, abstract art has developed into Hot Abstract with an emphasis on expressiveness and Cold Abstract that focuses on the expression of rational thinking. The pinnacle of the former, heralded by Kandinsky, was the prevailing American Abstract Expressionism that came later, which displayed a quality of action; the latter, on the other hand, was emblematized by the works of Mondrian, and formed another route in abstract art joined by Minimalism, Structuralism and Russian Suprematism.

The wave of abstract art surged in Taiwan with the Modern Painting Movement advocated by the Fifth Moon Art Group and the Ton Fan Art Group in 1957. After the 1960s, abstract ink painting became popular; its grammatological brushstrokes and inking charm demonstrated a tendency towards Hot Abstract, and has been viewed as the most recognizable style in Taiwanese abstract art. Nevertheless, the Punto Art Movement was introduced into the island by the Ton Fan Art Group no later than 1962, which had already taken root by then. The movement puts its emphasis on various Eastern philosophical aspects, such as “silent observation” and “Zen thinking,” and presented creations with minimal and geometric elements similar to Cold Abstract. Within this artistic wave, Ho Kan has been one of the representative artists.

Minimalism．Cold Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Art in Taiwan features nine Taiwanese artists whose works created from the 1960s onward have embodied Cold Abstract tendencies. They are Ho Kan, Tsong Pu, Chu Teh-I, Hu Kun-Jung, Dino Tsai, Liu Yung-Jen, Song Sheau-Ming, Keng Hao-Kang and Wu Tung-Lung. The exhibition surveys the achievements of these Taiwanese abstract artists, and is another exquisite exhibition enriched with stylistic characteristics and academic insights among the series abstract exhibitions presented by Remarkable Art Gallery.