After a gap of three years, the anticipated solo exhibition of Hua Chien-Chiang will be presented at AKI Gallery at the end of 2013. Except for frequently joining exhibitions in worldwide musems and recidency in several nations in europe and America, Hua’s symbolic oriantal gouache painting has become his impressive personal indication which is praised by international curators and museums. This December the ‘’Gun & Suit” solo exhibition transforms the elderly which has been existing for ten years into men in suits, annotating social issues by exercising contemporary gouache parable.

Alter from the traditional gouache themes such as flower-and-bird or landscape paintings; Hua conceives present social issues with his unique idiosyncrasy: an elder man as the main role humorously criticizes current events. Since Taipei Arts Award in 2004 and 2007 solo exhibition “New Blossoms of the Divine” at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hua started to make himself conspicuous. After Paris residency in 2009, Hua released more energy in his solo exhibition “Reality in Wonderland” in 2010. Successfully he reached a new height in his artistic level and unceasingly receives international exhibition invitations till now. The whole new solo exhibition “Gun & Suit” will show the complete six series which demonstrate the fighting, struggling and competition in daily life.

-AKI Gallery

Image: © Hua Chien-Chiang