Double Square 双方藝廊

Hsu Yung-Hsu
Born in Kaohsiung in 1955, Hsu Yung-Hsu graduated from the Graduate Institute of Applied Art, Tainan National University of the Arts in 2007. Hsu sees his own body as his creative instrument and focuses on creating a dialogue between body and artwork. He employs bodily senses such as perception, tactile sense, and the sense of pain to interact with the world in the pottery structure and construct his works. Through personally conducting elaborate, labor-intensive procedures, he is able to create the purest sculptural work. The constant constructing and deconstructing process transforms the originally thick and heavy porcelain and pottery clay into sculptures of extremely light and thin lines and forms, and creates the contrast that materializes the innovative perspective of Hsu's pottery work. Therefore, audience is able to witness incredibly "large-scale" and "thin" works rarely found in pottery. "Transcend life from life, artistic creation from itself, and life from artistic creation" is Hsu's artistic belief, through which he has engaged himself in an unending challenge of artistic creation, hoping to amalgamate life and art and turn a new page in his artistic journey.