Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is pleased to announce that the gallery will be participating in the 1st FLAME TP, which will be staged at Hotel Cozzi．Zhongxiao Taipei from August 27 (Sat.) to 28 (Sun), 2022. The gallery will present brilliant works by four outstanding artists from Taiwan and abroad, including Florian Claar (Germany), Lin Chuan-Chu (Taiwan), Su Hui-Yu (Taiwan), and Tsui Kuang-Yu (Taiwan) with objective to engender more possibility in terms of the exhibition and collection of video art in Taiwan, while offering Taiwanese audience a fresh visual experience.

Since the establishment in 2015, Double Square Gallery has promoted consistently video installations seldom shown in art galleries in addition to graphic paintings. Meanwhile, the gallery has also steadfastly encouraged diversity of media in collections of public institutions, private corporations, foundations, and private collectors. In the past, the gallery has held innumerous solo exhibitions of video artists, and showcased video works by Taiwanese and foreign artists as well. Furthermore, the gallery has also collaborated with SAMSUNG to present “Lightyear Project,” a one-year video exhibition program. With the same ideal, the FLAME TP concentrates on video art – a genre less showcased in art fairs – and is dedicated to opening up and expanding the art market of the genre, hoping to promote the distinctive collection value of video art.

Among the four artists showcased by the gallery in this edition of the FLAME TP, Su Hui-Yu discusses mass media’s influences over the body, everyday life, and ideologies through video, photography, and installation art. Using the approach of “re-shooting,” he re-interprets the past, the unfinished, the banned, and the misunderstood, incorporating personal experiences into historical text and context to create a method of expression that involves both the individual and the collective. Tsui Kuang-Yu’s video explores how individuals adapt to social systems. Through personal experiments, the artist foregrounds absurdities embedded in social value that people have taken for granted, and utilizes actions to re-define as well as question the institutional system surrounding us. Meanwhile, he establishes a new set of means for survival and re-defining reality via behaviors and experiments exceeding normal standards, thus unearthing more unseen relations in the everyday life and urban environment.

Florian Claar’s new media video installation features theatrical audiovisuals, which amalgamate sounds and images to transport the spectator back to specific moments in the past. He blends small yet memorable moments in memory with technological elements, such as architecture, installation, and music, to craft refined and dream-like scenes. In a montaged, mesmerizing style, these scenes lead the audience into a swirl of memory created by the artist. Lin Chuan-Chu, who is both a farmer and literatus, employs his solid national learning and contemporary art training to develop multifaceted creative forms. His animation work featured in this exhibition draws inspiration from the quotidian life of farming. The unadorned, smoothly flowing brushstrokes demonstrate a humanistic, gentle quality, and records the harmonious co-existence between farmers and nature.

• Florian Claar (b.1968) was born in Germany and graduated from the Department of Sculpture and Stage Design, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in Germany. He now lives in Japan and Germany. Claar launched his artist career in new media art, installation, and film in Tokyo in 1994, and was the recipient of the 1st Prize of the Kajima Sculpture Competition (1998) and the 1st Prize of the Benesse Sculpture Competition (2005). He has created numerous public art projects for venues such as Midtown-Project Roppongi in Tokyo; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; IFS International Finance Center in Chengdu, China; National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts-Weiwuying, Kaohsiung; and Taichung International Airport.

• Lin Chuan-Chu (b.1963) was born in Wanli, New Taipei City. In 1990, He graduated in B.F.A. from Chinese Cultural University in Taipei as well as him receiving his M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont, the U.S.A in 2003. Besides, He was invited to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. During the duration of his twenty-year artist career, he frequently attends group exhibitions in Taiwan, China, and the US. In 2008, he moved back to his hometown. Immersed in nature, he created his well-known work “Landscape Journal” series. As a literato and as a farmer, Lin subtly enjoys the details of life and the sound of nature.

• Su Hui-Yu (b. 1976) was born in Taipei, and graduated from the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003. In recent years, Su has been featured in renowned international film festivals and exhibitions, including the IFFR (the Netherlands), the Videonale (Bonn, Germany), PERFORMA (New York, USA), Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition (China), etc. He is the recipient of the Visual Arts Award at the 17th Taishin Arts Award in 2019, and his works have been included in several collections of renowned art institutions, including Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture, Sunpride Foundation and White Rabbit Gallery 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.