The first solo exhibition by the young Taiwanese Artist Su Meng-hung in Tina Keng Gallery and his 21 recent works are not to be missed.

From Su Meng-hung's creative process of his paintings, silkscreen prints, installations, and sulptures, there is evidence of artist's attempts in transforming traditional Chinese flowers and birds paintings into a sort of gaudy, grandiose visual icon, or by presentations of installation to turn them into a cultural symbol that is sensually appealing. Su often adapts elements of flowers and birds by later Quing Dynasty-era painters, and such visual symbols in his works are not merely driven by the desire to ridcule social markers of making those symbols inclusive to pop culture, the flowers and birds stand for the taste of aristocrats and literati. In the series of works by Su Meng-hung, the most memorable feature is the visual adaptation of Giuseppe Catiglione's paintings, the adaptation and sampling of the partterns are similar to the emotional states expressed 250 years ago when Castiglione painted "Barn Swallow and Green Peach Blosson," "Lotus Flower and Buttergly," and "Flower in a Vase", Shen Zhenlin painted " Flower Painting God" and Wang Chengpei painted "Peonies".

Even one's will cannot be realized with the imperial court shadowing over, the kitsch or refinded elegance still remain as an indescribable elattion faintly visible in each brushstroke before us.