Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is delighted to join other 90 galleries from around the world in the fourth edition of Taipei Dangdai, which takes place at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 and runs from May 12 (Fri.) to 14 (Sun.), 2023. Double Square Gallery showcases five groups of artists from three countries in this exhibition, including Lee Shi-Chi (Taiwan), Chu Teh-I (Taiwan), Lolo & Sosaku (Argentina and Japan), Miyuki Yokomizo (Japan), Su Hui-Yu (Taiwan).

Among the five groups of artists brought to booth E05, Lee Shi-Chi and Chu Teh-I are not limited by frames as they break through the original forms of their works, combining Eastern traditions with Western modern ideas to collide with different media and colors so as to create unique spatial relationships in their works; Lolo & Sosaku and Miyuki Yokomizo boldly pursue a wide range of creative possibilities, using different tools and technical thinking to construct installation from the interaction of physical features, forming completely different creative meanings; Su Hui-Yu uses a variety of creative media combinations to explore the effects of media on people's ideology, as well as the mechanisms and nature behind human behavior and social phenomena, showing his unique insights into contemporary art. We hope to show the various forms of art creation through the works presented in this exhibition, as well as to present the artistic context of the interplay between abstraction, physicality, instrumentality and technology, so that the audience can experience the visual, material and technical aspects, while understanding the works and exploring the meaning of their creation.

Lee Shi-Chi 's works are in pursuit of modern innovation without forgetting the tradition, striking a balance between western techniques and oriental connotations. His creative forms range from printmaking, ink and wash, abstract calligraphy, lacquer painting, mixed media to installations, with an emphasis on experimental materials and a varied style that retains the local style, linking his works with an open perspective, making him one of the most important post-war modern painting artists in Taiwan.

Chu Teh-I specializes in the exploration of color and space, with a unique insight into the different layers and dimensions on the painting surface. His paintings mostly show the interlocking planes of positive and negative space, creating a jumping visual spatiality, and his long-term mastery of color and the presentation of the conflict between materials also allows his works to transcend the boundary between color and form over and over again.

Lolo & Sosaku build various painting machines using the mechanical movement control of objects, constructing themselves as a subject and deriving from their mechanical devices beyond their materiality into a more spiritual and unknown existence. By seeking objects that relate to their surroundings and the viewer through contact and friction, they connect the core of their work while exploring the possibility of composing new meanings.

Miyuki Yokomizo prefers industrial rather than natural materials, in which the interaction of time, space and light is often visible, including the obsession with geometric patterns, spherical, vertical and horizontal lines, forming a visual event through an ever-repeating process, structuring three-dimensional space and installation, which evokes uncertainty in the observer and creates a new visual experience.

Su Hui-Yu's unique art expression emphasizes the interconnectedness between the body and the media, using the creative media of video, photography and installation art to reveal the diverse phenomena of contemporary culture and society. The themes of his works often originate from his own experience of being surrounded by the media, discussing issues such as identity and cultural conflicts from an ideological perspective, triggering the viewer to consider social phenomena.

 

Artist Introduction:

• Lee Shi-Chi, born in Gouningtou, Kinmen in 1938. Lee graduated from the Provincial Taipei Normal College. Winner of the National Award for Arts in 2012, also recognized as a modern artist who received numerous international prizes. His experimental nature in media creation is often referred to as The Bird of Artistic Variations, a highly implicated oriental humanistic concept. During the development of the Chinese art modernization movement in post-war Taiwan, Lee was known as an outstanding artist who made a great deal of contribution in promoting Taiwan’s modern art internationally.

• Chu Teh-I, born in 1952. Chu graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1976, and received diplomas from L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts De Paris in 1983, and L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts-Decoratifs De Paris in 1984. His previous positions include the director of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. Chu is also the board member of the Lee Chun-shan Modern Painting Foundation. His works are in private and public collection at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, and Seoul Museum of Art, Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea.

• Lolo & Sosaku, (b. 1977, 1976) are a duo of artists from Buenos Aires, Argentina and Tokyo, Japan, currently living and working in Barcelona, Spain, whose work moves between different artistic languages such as sculpture, installation, kinetic art and painting, often incorporating music and sound. Its modus operandi is to constitute itself as a subject and to reach from its machinic materiality to transcendence, to mysticism and to the unknown. Lolo & Sosaku’s work has been exhibited and performed, amongst others, at Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), PSA Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), MIS Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo, Brasil), Fundação Casa França Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), Sónar (Barcelona, Spain), Matadero (Madrid, Spain), Night Time Story, (Los Angeles, California) Palace of Culture (Iasi, Romania), Luis Adelantado Gallery (Valencia, Spain) and Instituto Cervantes (Milan,Italy).

• Miyuki Yokomizo, born in Tokyo, Japan in 1968. Miyuki graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Sculpture. Fellow for the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artist’s program. Major exhibitions include “criterium 37” (Art Tower Mito, 1998), “Plastic Age: Art and Design” (Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1998), “Slanting House” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2002), “Purloined Nature” (Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 2003), and “Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan” by the Japan Foundation (Travelled in the world, 2004-2019), among others.

• Su Hui-Yu, born in Taipei in 1976. Su received an M.F.A. degree from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003. The complex phenomena arising from the entanglements among images, media, andquotidian life is particularly fascinating to the artist, which is why he employs videos to investigate how mass media influences people and how the latter in turn project their ideas and desires onto the on former. His works have been exhibited at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, MOCA Taipei, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Hong-Gah Museum, Double Square Gallery, Tina Keng Gallery, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, San Jose Museum of Art in California, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Casino Luxembourg- forum d'art contemporain, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center and Power Station of Art in Shanghai.