ART TAIPEI 2021 : Taipei World Trade Center
Written by Mind Set Art Center
Mind Set Art Center is honored to present the latest wok of 14 artists at the Galleries section of 2021 Art Taipei. The artists include Buen CALUBAYAN, Marina CRUZ, Rao FU, Joao GABRIEL, JHONG Jiang-Ze, LEE Ming-tse, LIN Wei-Hsiang, LIU Chi-Hung, Ana Maria MICU, SHI Jin-Hua, Juin SHIEH, Rodel TAPAYA, TANG Jo-Hung and Lee YANG. The art fair is scheduled from October 23 to 25 at the Taipei World Trade Center, with a preview session set for October 21 and 22, starting at 2:00 p.m. We eagerly await your presence.
The artworks in the exhibit revolve around two themes, “imagination” and “representation”. From these two perspectives, the artists ponder upon the format, development and spirit of contemporary painting. They also explore the changing role of “human” and “object” in paintings in an effort to seek a deeper understanding of the imagination and representation, the real and the fictional. The artworks on exhibit explore two directions: the inheritance and transformation of aesthetics, as well as the everyday and the mythology.
The Inheritance and Transformation of Landscape Painting Aesthetics
To create “Pen Walking #178 Moon Above Mount Kailsh at Dawn ” and “Clouds in the Past Moved Slowly”, both SHI Jin-Hua and LIN Wei-Hsiang have focused their eyes and mind and resorted to highly personalized artistic language to reinterpret the aesthetics of landscape painting. In “Pen Walking #178”, SHI Jin-Hua used Chinese ink wash technique for the underpainting, and proceeded to draw lines with white pencils around the image of a mountain ---- a gesture that symbolizes his life-long pilgrimage. In his four-meter long painting “Clouds in the Past Moved Slowly”, LIN Wei-Hsiang portrays seascape on the coast of Yilan County and the Guishan Island. He has filled the frame with his memories, images and inner thoughts. And then, he added hues, light and shades from different moments of the day and different seasons. With his exquisite brush strokes, LIN managed to craft a familiar yet foreign landscape with a multilayered atmosphere.
