| November-27-2009 |
| Pan Ping-Yu |
If we seek to understand the relationship between humankind and nature from mythology, then it’s chaotic, it’s ordered. Respond to it and you become your own hero. (Extracted from Eternal Nature)
Pan Ping-Yu’s works mainly explore the relationship between myth and the contemporary life. In Pan’s belief, myth provides a creative narrative which ultimately leads to a primitive relationship of mutual belonging, i.e. a kind of harmonization of cultural relationship.
Those who are interested in myth mostly are attracted by the symbols in myth, but what fascinates the artist is the structure of myth. Eternal Nature suggests that the eternal nature of myths originates in mundane stories, through which we interpret or make deductions about the endless creativity in our lives. The spirit of Nature and the mind of human beings thus become an inspiration extracted from the images in myth. ......《more》 |
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| November-27-2009 |
| Tung Hsin-Ru |
Born in Taipei in 1964, Tung Hsin Ru earned a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, NY, USA, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from National Institute of the Arts, Taiwan. Now she works as an artist and an associate Professor at National Taiwan Normal University. Her major exhibitions include Observe Microcosm at VT Art Salon (Taipei, 2008), Realm of Form‧World of Sense at Julia Art Gallery (Taipei, 2005), Traces of Realm II at Butzbach Art Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003), Realm of Form at Pacific Cultural Foundation Art Center (Taipei, 1999), Traces of Realm at Taipei County Cultural Center (1998), Chang-Hai Ching at Gallery 456 (New York, 1996), etc. Her publications include Traces of Realm 1998, Realm of Form 2003, and Observe Microcosm 2008.
Tung Hsin-Ru’s artistic practice is inspired by her utmost respect and admiration of the universe and the nature. From Trace of Realm, Realm of Form, World of Sense to the latest series Observe Microcosm, the artist has always cared about the subtle microcosm of the coexistence between Nature and Human Beings.... ......《more》 |
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| November-27-2009 |
| Huang Pei-Hang |
Born in Taipei in 1984, Huang Pei-Hang graduated fromthe Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University with an M.F.A. degree in 2009. Her exhibitions include Freshly Fairy Tale – Pei-Hang Huang’s Solo Exhibition at AKI Gallery (Taipei, 2009), Art OSAKA 2009ARTO Art Fair BUSAN 2009, YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2009 at Sunworld Dynasty Hotel, Small WorldChina World Trade Center (Beijing, China, 2008), etc. She was also awarded the Grand Prize of The Chi-Mei Art Cultivation Awards in 2008. at E105 Gallery (Bonn, Germany, 2009), the 11th Session of Beijing International Art Exposition at ,
Pei-Hang Huang focuses on how social expectation influences the modern lives’ obsession with physical appearance and body shape. Through the unpretentious exhibition of these bodies, Huang pierces into the world’s obsession. With some slight self-mocking, she softly guides us to candidly reexamine ourselves and teaches us to live with these minor irritations..... ......《more》 |
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| November-27-2009 |
| Hwang Buh-Ching |
Born in Lukang in 1948, Hwang Buh-Ching graduated from Maître d'Arts Plastique at Université de Paris with a master degree in 1987 after his seven-year studies in Paris. Later, he continued his artistic practice in Boston in 1998. His major solo exhibitions include Mother Earth, Creature and Memories at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (1999), Water Plants Chasing at Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse (1999), Space and Path at K.A.S. Gallery (Budapest, 2002), Seeds , Creature and love - Buh-Ching Hwang Unique Installation Exhibition at Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum (Miaoli, 2008), etc. His work “Nature Serving” was also displayed at The 48th Venice Biennale in 1999.
Hwang Buh-Ching has been devoted to the experiment on various materials throughout his artistic career. In his belief, material is more important than the components (such as oil, pencil, or acrylic) for that material brings the artwork to its completion. It should be regarded as an indispensable content to transmit the spirit of the artworks. ......《more》 |
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| November-27-2009 |
| Huang Wen-Yung |
Huang Wen-Yung graduated from the Fontbonne College in Missouri in the United State as an M. A. in Fine Arts. Recently, Huang uses “Image” as the entity of his research and creation. Throughout his career as an artist, he has continuously worked with different domains for more possibilities of the image expression, and has actively searched for a new way in his artistic practice. He has held more than 10 solo exhibitions and has attended more than 60 national and international exhibitions. Huang’s creations are full of experimental spirit and have been collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of History, Hong-Gah Museum and other art lovers.
Huang Wen-Yung intends to create some kind of ambiguity in his works so as to stir similar emotions in the viewers’ heart. The real world is deconstructed into a dim shadow in Huang’s work.....
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| November-27-2009 |
| Huang Hsin-Chien |
Huang Hsin-Chien is an artist who excels in both digital technology and traditional art. He graduated from Mechanical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University and later earned his B.S. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and M.S. from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He has collaborated with media artist Laurie Anderson in her first interactive CDROM “Puppet Motel.” Additionally, he has worked with computer entertainment companies like Sega and Sony as an art director. After he returned to Taiwan in 2001, he established Storynest, a team of creative people to support his art creation.
Storynest converts the traditional art forms like photography, storytelling, music, images into a new hybrid presentation with the usage of digital tools..... ......《more》 |
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| November-27-2009 |
| Hua Chien-Chiang |
Born in Sanchih, Taipei county, in 1975, Hua Chien-Chiang graduated from National Taipei University of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Fine Arts in 2005. He stayed in Headlands Center for the Arts in 2007 and in La Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris) in 2009 as a resident artist. His exhibitions include Art Taipei 2009, YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2009 at Sunworld Dynasty Hotel, Otaku at AKI Gallery (Taipei, 2009), Form, Idea, Essence and Rhythm: Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2008), ART. Fair 21 (Cologne, 2008), New Blossoms of the Divine at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2008), Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008: Snake Alley at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York (2007), New Elysium of the Divine at Aki Gallery (Taipei, 2007).
Most people associate gouache with subjects such as pastoral scenery and creatures in nature Being expressed in thick layers of heavy color achieves an ornate feel. On the basis of gouache’s established tradition of depicting scenes from nature, Hua Chien-Chiang further conjures a symbolic style of his own.... ......《more》 |
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| November-27-2009 |
| Tseng Wei-Hao |
Graduating from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National College of the Arts with an M.F.A. degree, Tseng Wei-Hao is one of the most established sound artist in Taiwan. Since the early stage of Tseng’s artistic experiment, he has been fascinated by the interrelation among sound, space, and body. Viewers can easily distinguish his works by the huge installation which occupies the whole exhibition space, the human touch, the finger tips, the carbon ink, and the interactive noise transmitted through human body. Among these elements Tseng Wei-Hao demonstrates a brand new world which has never been probed into by our pre-existing visual experience, in order to “search for the true human perception through a standardized environment,” says the artist.
Tseng Wei-Hao started a series of experiments on “noise” – which was defined as the essence of voice by the artist – between 2005 and 2005. The black lines painted on the walls intended to deliver a conceptual message through the interaction with the human body. Viewers thus became an indispensable part of its completion. The “human touch” connected both human body and machine in the circulation of sound. The created “noise,” therefore, seemed to be brought into life. ......《more》 |
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| November-27-2009 |
| Tseng Ying-Tung |
Born in 1953, Tseng Ying-Tung graduated from New York University with an M.A. degree in 1992 and started a new journey in art. Throughout his career as an artist, Tseng Ying-Tung has been inspired by personal experiences and self-observation. As presented in his artworks, he desires to find out the balance between the real and the fantasy. He often adopts spectrum light to represent the inner purity and the outer struggle of humanity with an attempt to create new symbols which represent those conflicts. In the artist’s belief, “rainbow” is the best image to transfer the message of peace, balance, and silence. Furthermore, rainbow can be regarded as a messenger between heaven and the mundane world as the old legend tells. It perfectly connects the two main focuses of his artistic practice – painting and public art – which both together present the negative side and the positive side of the artist.
Tseng Ying-Tung has once described himself as “an instable soul struggling between the reality and the dream, which gradually turn out to be the energy to enrich the spirit.” ......《more》 |
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| November-25-2009 |
| 199 Chen Shiau-Peng |
Born in 1976 in Penghu, Chen Shiau-Peng graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with a B.F.A. degree and later graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with an M.F.A. degree. Since 2000, Chen’s artworks have been displayed in Taipei, New York, Shanghai, Gwangju, Melbourne, and Sydney. She has also participated in artist-in-residence program in Taipei Artist Village and The 18th Street Art Center (Los Angeles). Her artistic practice mainly focuses on painting, text-work, and installation. The images/lines of abstraction, representation, flatness, mapping, geometry, and color become the recurring motifs in her works.
The geometric shapes and the color blocks in Chen Shiau-Peng’s works often remind viewers of the artworks of Piet Cornelies Mondrian. However, the difference lies on how Chen transforms the three-dimensional structure into a two-dimensional plane, i.e., the canvas. In such a transformation, Chen discovers the composition of the color blocks and the transition of space.....
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| November-25-2009 |
| 196 Chen Chin-Pao |
Born in 1969, Chen Chin-Pao graduated from School of Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in Photography in 1999. He is devoted to the exploration on the boundaries between truthful reality and memory preserved by photography. He currently works and lives in Taipei. His solo exhibitions include Heaven on Earth at 1839 Contemporary Gallery (Taipei, 2009), Documentary Portrait – Betel Nuts Girls at Taiwan International Visual Art Center (Taipei, 1999), and Chin-Pao Chen’s Recent Works at Knickerbocker Gallery (New York, 1999). Other group exhibitions include Fusion Folks – Contemporary art Exhibition at Bo-Pi Liao (Taipei, 2009), Betel Nut Beauties at le Point Ephémère (Paris, 2008), Then and Now – Memories of the Future at Daeguphoto Biennale (Daegu, Korea, 2008), New Aesthetics in Taiwan at Jeff Hsu’s Art (Taipei, 2002),....
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| November-25-2009 |
| 194 Chen Shun-Chu |
Born in Penghu in 1963, Chen Shun-Chu graduated from the Chinese Culture University with a B.F.A. degree. As one of the pioneers in the development of Taiwan contemporary art, he works and lives in Taipei now. He uses photography as the main language in his artistic creation, and combines photography with land art and installation. “Memory” can be regarded as the most important element in Chen Shun-Chu’s works. His works often mourn the passing of his childhood, bringing the nostalgia to the ritualized representation – the ephemerality of our being thus becomes the unique charm in Chen Shun-Chu’s artistic practice.
Chen Shun-Chu’s major exhibitions include Taiwan: Art Today in Berlin & Ludwig Art Forum at the Museum of World Culture (Achen, Germany, 1996-1997), Inside Out: New Chinese Art at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (touring from Mexico, Australia, to Hong Kong, 1998-2000),
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| November-25-2009 |
| 192 Chen Hui-Ching |
Born in Tainan in 1979, Chen Hui-Ching graduated from Fine Art Department at National Kaohsiung Normal University with an M.F.A. degree. Her major solo exhibitions include Dream Practitioners at Paint House Forum & Studio (Tainan, 2009), The Document of Fragments at Paint House Forum & Studio (Tainan, 2006), The Field of the Realm of Memories at Paint House Forum & Studio (Tainan, 2005), The Wrapped Life at Paint House Forum & Studio (Tainan, 2001). Other group exhibitions include Paint House Forum & Studio 8th Anniversary Group Show at Paint House Forum & Studio (Tainan, 2007),
The Influence of Sinpink Pier Art Space at Sinpink Pier Art Space (Kaohsiung, 2005), The Sunset of the Home Town at Stock 20 (Taichung, 2005), Leaning in Part at Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse (2004), etc.
In the serial works of The Wrapped Life in 2001, the artist used different materials to wrap up objects, transferring the idea from heterogeneity to homogenization. In the following work The Bubble Wrapper House in 2004,she kept the artistic focus on the same subject but extracted the objects which had previously been wrapped up in order to further discuss the perception of the “surface.”.....
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| November-25-2009 |
| 188 Chen Mei-Tsen |
Chen Mei-Tsen was born in 1966 in Taipei. After graduating in 1990 from the National Institute of Arts in Taipei (the Taipei National University of the Arts now), she went to Paris for advanced studies. Soon she got the artist residentship in France and has worked there since then. Since 2000, she has begun the early stage of her artistic career in salons, galleries, and culture centers. Her artworks have been exhibited in Six Women in Artat UNESCO (Paris, 2005). Throughout her career as an artist in Paris, Spanish gallery Alexandra Irigoyen has also presented hers arts works at Estampa (Madrid, Spain, 2006), Art Karlsruhe (Germany, 2008). In 2008, she began the collaboration with Galerie Grand Siècle in Taipei. The exhibitions include Art. Fair 21 (Cologne, Germany, 2008), her first solo exibition in Taiwan – Starry Sky (Taipei, 2009), YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2009. Other group exhibitions include Duel Regard – The views from Taiwanese Women’s Arts at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, 2009), Life‧Dream in China Pingyao International Photography Festival (2009).
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| November-25-2009 |
| 181 Chen Sung-Chih |
Born in Nantou in 1978, Chen Sung-Chih graduated from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Art with an M.F.A. degree in 2005. His artistic practice mainly emphasizes on mixed media installation such as the use of ready-made objects. These ready-made materials extracted from our day life are randomly assembled, combined, and transformed in his works, in order to present a totally different touch from the originally rough and cold quality. It seems that the artist delicately blends the complex psychological element into the lifeless objects. His art creations, therefore, is given warmth and poetic meanings. In the past several years, Sung-Chih has participated in multiple artist-in-residence programs in the Great Britain, Egypt, France, and Taiwan. His achievements include the 2004 Taishin Arts Award (ranked as the Top 7 of Visual Arts), the 2003 and the 2008 Taipei Arts Award for Honorable Mention, and the 2001 S-An Aesthetics Award for Arts Creation Support. Furthermore, he has organized12 individual exhibitions since 2001 and received numerous exhibition invitations. He currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
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| November-25-2009 |
| 177 Chen Wan-Ling |
Chen Wan-Ling was born in Tainan in 1980, and she lives and works in Tainan now. She graduated from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts in 2008. Her solo exhibition include Little Macrocosm at BankART NYK (Yokohama, 2009), 8 at Taiwan New Art Room (Tainan, 2007). Group Exhibitions include Beyond 20 Degree Celsius at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, 2008) and at He Xiang Ning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China, 2009), Very Fun Park at Zhongxiao Dunhua Metro Station (Taipei), Asia Students and Young Artists Art Festival at Seoul Station Old Bldg, CO-Q: Young Taiwan Artists from Nobody Collection at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, 2008), Exhibiting Party at Taichung Brewery, The Chance of TAIWAN new Generation Art at 798 Special Area of Art (Beijing, China), Cold Q at Art Site of Chia-yi Railway (2007), etc. She was also awarded the First Prize of Taipei Arts Awards in 2006 and the Tao Yuan Creation Award in the same year.
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| November-25-2009 |
| 169 Chen Wen-Chi |
Chen Wen-Chi graduated from Long Island University with an M.F.A. in 1999. Currentlyhe works as afull-time assistant professor in the Department of Material Art at Tainan National University of the Arts,and a part-time assistant professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Chen’s solo exhibitions include Anomy at Licence Art Gallery (2009) and Galerie Grand Siecle (Taipei, 2008), Illusion 2 – Amour at VT Artsaoln (Taipei, 2007), Illusion1 & 2 at Taitung Railway Art Village 216 depot, Illusion at Kuandu Museum of Arts (Taipei, 2006), Anomy – Camera no. 5at VT Artsalon (Taipei, 2006),Flesh is the Prison of the Soul Ⅱ, Ⅲ & Ⅳ at Galerie Grand Siecle, (Taipei, 2004),AM‧FM My Lifeat Tamsui Center of Arts & Culture (Taipei, 2001), etc..... ......《more》 |
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| November-25-2009 |
| 168 Kuo Hui-Chan |
Born in I-Lan, Taiwan, in 1976, Kuo Hui-Chan received her M.A. degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art& Design at The London Institute in 2001. Kuo Hui-Chan’s Solo Exhibitions include Drawing with Light at Aki Gallery (Taipei, 2008), Painting at SLY Art Space (Taipei, 2007), Self-portrait Photo Exhibition at Life Science Library (Taipei, 2003). Other major group exhibitions include Duel Regard – The Views from Taiwanese Women's Arts at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, 2009 ), Play Stadium in 2008 at Artist Commune (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Snake Alley at Taipei Cultural Center (New York, 2008),Toward The World of Venus – Exhibition of 3 Women Photo Artists From Taiwan at Guardian Garden (Tokyo, 2006).
Most of Kuo’s artworks express that human beings “are often restricted by the ‘Dos’ and ‘Do nots’ posed by social mores which effect the way we see each other, the space around us and even the world.” Her works during the years of 2001-2004 mainly used photo installations as a creative medium to explore the relation between the human body and the various surrounding spaces. She also questions the double standard that causes the difference between private and public depictions..... ......《more》 |
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| November-25-2009 |
| 163 Kuo I-Chen |
Born in 1979, Kaohsiung, Kuo I-Chen graduated from the Graduate School of Art and Technology at Taipei National University of the Arts with an M.F.A. degree in Video Art. In 2004, he attended The 4th International Art Exhibition of Taipei Biennial: Do You Believe in Reality? with the work “Invade TFAM.” In 2005, he was the representative of Taiwan in The Specter of Freedom, presented in Taiwan Pavilion at The 51th international Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale, – setting the record of being the youngest participant artist ever. In the same year, his work “Lose Contact” was awarded Taipei Arts Awards and was recommended by the international curator Fumio Nanjo to be demonstrated in PILOT 2 International Art Forum (London, 2005). In 2006, he participated in The 1st International Art Exhibition of Singapore Biennale: Belief. In 2007, in addition to the work being exhibited in Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves at ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, 2007), he also had his debut Mutation at Galerie Grand Siecle (Taipei), which was later nominated by The 6th Taishin Visual Arts Award as The Annual Top 5. In 2008, he was invited to The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale – Turn And Widen and collaborated with the Australian Curator Sophie McIntyre in Penumbra at Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum (Adelaide, 2008). In the next year, he was invited to The Epic in the Everyday, Contemporary Video Art from Taiwan at Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (Napoli, 2009), and the works were continuously exhibited in Greece, Germany, Switzerland, New York, India, Japan, and France.
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