ART TAIPEI 2022 : Taipei World Trade Center

Written by Mind Set Art Center

Mind Set Art Center (MSAC) is honored to present the latest works of 12 artists at booth E04 of the Galleries section of 2022 Art Taipei. The artists include Buen CALUBAYAN, Marina CRUZ, Rui Miguel Leitão Ferreira, Rao FU, LEE Ming-tse, LIN Wei-Hsiang, Ana Maria MICU, Shinji OHMAKI, SHI Jin-Hua, Juin SHIEH, TANG Jo-Hung, WU Tseng Jung, and Mo ZHANG. The art fair is scheduled from October 21 to 24 at the Taipei World Trade Center, with a preview session set for October 20, starting at 12:00 p.m.

This presentation entitled “The Poem of Landscape” showcases the artworks by a strong lineup of the gallery’s artists whom depict their observation of world and understanding of life through the act of painting. By “seeing” and “translating’, they review the theme of “landscape and men” and investigate how forms of painting can be reshaped at present time; that is, to transform “men” and “objects” into poetic landscapes, to reconnect the actual landscape and artistic representation, and proceed to reactivate the conversation between them. With the presentation, we hope to deliberate the following two perspectives: Reflection and Transformation of Landscape Aesthetics, and Microcosm of Daily Life vs. Mythical Tales.

Reflection and Transformation of Landscape Aesthetics

SHI Jin-Hua, WU Tseng Jung and LIN Wei-Hsiang gracefully make art afloat with unique artistic languages with the coexistence of their minds and the physical eyes. They illustrate the reinterpretation of landscape aesthetics. Primed with ink, Pen Walking #183 delineates mountainscape composed of white pencil lines drawn by SHI Jin-Hua, a conceptual artist who constantly uses pencils as artistic representation to carry on his sacred journeys. The similar devotion also appears in WU Tseng Jung’s watercolor art. Turning to a full-time painter from an architect in his middle age, WU invents a unique technique of dampening and washing the palette that brings watercolor to a new realm of quality and expression. The composition, brushstroke, and color of his landscape paintings on display are outstandingly ambitious and demonstrate the aura of certainness. The strong style has contributed to a distinguish system in his practice. Aside from WU’s highly confident and expressive languages in the landscape paintings, LIN Wei-Hsiang applies soft textures on layers over layers to create a familiar but distinct imagery of landscape. It is rooted from the memories of the artist’s nature travels as well as multilayered imaginations during his painting movement. Landscape, memory, image, and mind saturated as paints in LIN’s canvas are beautifully transformed into an alluring landscape that freezes different seasons, moments, tones, and lights and shades.