Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is pleased to join the 2022 Art Taipei, which is presented at the Taipei World Trade Center – Exhibition Hall 1, and runs from October 21 (Fri.) to 24 (Mon.), 2022. Bringing together six Taiwanese artists, including Lin Liang-Tsai, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Chen Ching-Yao, Kuo Yen-Fu, Huang Hai-Hsin, and Yu Siuan, the gallery will be showing at Booth E05 their brilliant works, ranging from two-dimensional painting, sculpture, and video. Themed on “proof of presence,” this exhibition focuses on the powerful and unique human presence, and pays close attention to human actions and influences both portrayed by the works and taking place in the world, displaying artistic signs as certain proofs of contemporary human activities.

With his own hands, eyes and mind, Lin Liang-Tsai minutely observes the kaleidoscopic world. Through his unique artistic talent, he expresses his inner feelings and insights into life through forging, welding, and cutting metal, of which he uses to demonstrate the human body structure in a more refined and freer way. His solid yet rhythmically arranged lines of metal produce a group of human figures imbued with a vivid force of life. With videos, Tsui Kuang-Yu records the adapting relationship between people and social systems. Using performances comprising street experimentation and micro theater, Tsui collides with life personally, and engages the audience in deep reflection on contemporary society through seemingly non-sensical, absurd actions.

Chen Ching-Yao uses elaborate and thorough realist techniques to response to contemporary cultural and political issues, while expressing how human beings are in a state of constantly preparing for wars under the impact of the pandemic. In the meantime, he incorporates his face into portraits of political figures – a signature creative method of his – to reveal serious and real social phenomena via a humorous, absurd perspective. With a bold and free palette and color arrangement, Kuo Yen-Fu’s creative elements are drawn from life experiences or memories relating to the surrounding environment. These memories offer him emotional support and artistic inspiration, which not only convey his remembrance of childhood, but also portray the collective memory of an entire era.

Huang Hai-Hsin’s work is based on hilarious and embarrassing moments in everyday life. With humorously parodic compositions and rough yet sincere lines, the artist acutely delineates the survival scenes of common people in the vast world, exposing all sorts of absurd moments in interpersonal relationships in political, social, and familial scenes in this era. Yu Siuan uses realistic approaches to depict a futuristic sci-fi world inseparable from death. All the metal components and traces of organic erosions are created with extremely delicate sculptural and painting techniques, which are reminiscent of the protective mechanism of mimicry commonly found in natural life to ensure survival in a passive way.

• Liang-Tsai, Lin (b.1947) was born in Changhua. He graduated from the Western Painting Division, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Academy of Arts. In 1984, he entered the Department of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (Académie Royale des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles) in Belgium, and transferred to the Department of Sculpture the next year. When he graduated in 1989, he was awarded the Professional Artist Award and the Award of Royal Academy of Arts. In 1990, he was commissioned to create the European June 4th Democratic Monument, entitled The Torch of Freedom. He was also the sole recipient of the Wu San-Lien Arts Award in 2008. Lin has exhibited extensively in Belgium, France, Germany, Australia, Korea, etc. His works have been included in the collections of Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique), Taiwan Provincial Museum of Fine Arts (now National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts among others.

• Kuang-Yu Tsui (b.1974) was born in Taipei. In 1997 he graduated from the National Institute of the Arts and has exhibited internationally since, including Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Werkleitz Biennial, Reina Sofia Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Contour Biennial, Chelsea Art Museum, Mori Museum, OK Centrum. Tsui has been trying to respond to the adaptation relationship between humans and society from a biological point of view. He also attempts to redefine or question the matrix of the institution we inhabit through different actions and experiments that ignore the accustomed norm. His repetitive body experiments accent the absurdity of the social values and reality that people have grown accustomed to.

• Ching-Yao Chen (b. 1984) was born in Taipei. Chen received his MFA in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2006. He has won the Award of Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan and the First Prize of Taipei Arts Award. He was also the recipient of Asian Cultural Council's grant in 2009, which enabled him to conduct a residency in New York. In recent years, Chen's work centers around photography and painting. The range of his subject matter is very wide, and his work focuses on the deconstruction of power and symbols. He often appropriates symbols of popular culture, and even the portraits of politicians, and drastically recreates and transforms them into humorous, amusing images and behaviors, or simply assumes the roles of these figures himself in his work. His downplaying the symbols of power is undoubtedly a sarcastic satire against modern society. While making his audience laugh about the situation, he also aims to make them reflect upon the absurdity of different actions of power in their surroundings.

• Kuo Yen-Fu (b. 1979) was born in Taipei. Kuo graduated from The University of Taipei college of kinesiology Department of Athletics. Kuo’s inspiration comes from his daily life and feelings which influences Kuo’s works profoundly. For example, the memories of the video rental shop that ran by his family. He hopes to create a "happiness" world that wanders in the second dimension and enters the viewer's heart. His works were exhibited in the United States, China, Korea, Italy, France, etc.

• 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 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 useum; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the UBS Art Collection; and the Yageo Foundation.

• Yu Siuan (b. 1984) was born in Taiwan. His works were selected for competition in Japan’s International High School Arts Festival and have since been exhibited multiple times in Japan and South Korea. Yu Siuan has devoted time and energy to his artistic work for many years. A master of exquisite realist techniques, he integrates contemporary sculpture with kinetic installation, stretching the limits of painting from two- to three- dimensional, and turning his envisioned sci-fi world into a distinct reality. With his realist works that straddle the divide between painting and sculptural installation, he presses on in his pursuit of the essence of beauty and, above all, life.