“The Time Capsule” is the creation of 4 Taiwanese artists- Rae, Kowei, Hsien-Ni Ping & Chang Wei-Lun. This exhibition is about fantasy, dream, love & adventure and the artworks are related to fictional characters created by the artists. It is a fun and wonderful collection that transport us back to our childhood momentarily and escape from this harsh and realistic world as an adult.
Rae uses Anini-a little girl with a chestnut-shaped head to share her fanciful journey to tell a story based on her memory of country life and travelling experience. Rae’s personal experience reflects on Anini’s adventure, with freedom, courage and no boundaries. We can see the rich layers of colors and diverse viewpoints, sometimes from high above, sometimes into the scenery. Rae’s Adventure Series leads us into the nature, and wakes our inborn senses in arts and nature.
Kowei’s artwork is warm, imaginative, and has an almost babyish yet intriguing style; he is also constantly exploring new possibilities. Kowei’s deepest belief is always stays true to oneself. He is inspired by chameleon and dedicated to creating artworks that showcase the spirit of “kowei” in diverse styles and forms. The fictional characters that he had chosen to express are published into 3 books 《First Love Fairy Tale ~Toma & Choco~》,《Miracles in a Masquerade》 and 《The Invisible Light》.
Hsien-Ni Ping started her creation of the “Black Sweetie”- always dresses a one-piece black peng skirt, but pretty as the princess in 2009. Her artworks study the interpersonal relationship between couple about falling in or out LOVE and also the process that actually made a woman more mature. She uses the symbol of the “Rabbit” to signify commitment and happiness with her love one.
Chang Wei-Lun’s “Mr Man” is the 3rd series of artworks after Casper the dog and Shiou Yu the little girl. The collection of artworks reflects upon the “Secret” within us and there are moment of deep thought and self-discovery. It also question the relationship among people from our family to our love one and does “Love” really exist?
“The Time Capsule” exhibition will let you open your heart and soul like a child and may it brings new meaning and light to your life just by looking at the inspiring artworks from these 4 extra-ordinary artists.
About the Artists
Rae
As an artist and illustrated-literature writer, in fall 2008, Rae extended her artistic touch in designing her own brand, LoveRae. Now, as the designing group of LoveRae, Rae and several interdisciplinary artists devote themselves in promoting the concept of “living in beauty and quality”. Working as Visual Artistic Director for numerous television animations and film literature, Rae currently teaches at the Department of Visual Communication Design in Chaoyang University of Technology. As a professional artist, her artworks are often seen in newspapers, magazines, digital media, and galleries, both in Taiwan and worldwide.
Rae’s artworks are infused with a style of freshness and freedom. Her diverse techniques expand the artistic dimensions in her works. As her audiences, we share the tranquility, purity and compassion with the artist in her illustration and writing. Victoria Lu, a renowned international curator, remarks Rae as an artist who shows her creativity through drawing and writing and “electrifies” her audiences at first sight.
In 2010, Rae designed the educational picture book especially for the exhibitions in Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Juming Museum. In the same year, her works were selected in Shanghai Art Fair Emerging Artists Exhibition. Rae’s creation, Anini, is always full of confidence in pursuing her dreams. We feel Anini’s warmth and power upon Rae’s reflection. Rae herself is the new star in the world of arts realizing her dreams with her brush.
Kowei
Kowei is born on May 26th, 1984 in Taipei, Taiwan.kowei received undergraduate degree from the Department of Commercial Design at the Ming-chuan University, and is now a Masters student at the Institute of Fashion and Communications Design at Shih-chien University. He is a writer, illustrator, designer, lecturer, and also a model.
Kowei has created artworks and/or held lectures for Taiwan Designers' Week (2009), Department of Information and Tourism in Taipei, Starbucks, Blockbuster, ELLE Taiwan, SHISEIDO, Rotary Club of Taipei, Frinem Fashion Enterprise, E.G.-Sain, MATSUSEI, Eslite Bookstore, Uni-President, Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP), and Audrey's Chocolate. He has published 3 books, 《First Love Fairy Tale ~Toma & Choco~》 with Sharp Point Publishing Group, 《Miracles in a Masquerade》 and 《The Invisible Light》 with Locus Publishing Company. 《The Invisible Light》has won the honor of “Selected Junior-high Must-read” from the Government Information Office of Taiwan. kowei has also won the most-popular award at the “X FUNS: 04-05 X-CUP Design Awards” in 2005.
kowei’s graduation exhibition titled 《TIME FLOW》 was held in 2006 at Shin-kong Mitsukoshi Mall. He has also exhibited his work in the “King Car Originality Exhibition” in 2009. In the same year, kowei collaborated with his fans all over the world from Taiwan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, U.S., and Germany, to jointly create the 5th anniversary Web exhibition titled 《hi! 5》. In 2010, he has joined the “Outstanding Alumnus Art Exhibition of Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School”. kowei is currently working on his new book at his home in Taipei.
Hsien-Ni Ping
Hsien-Ni Ping graduated from the Ming Chuan University in Taiwan and further her study in London and received her MA in Illustration from the University of the Arts. She had participated in various group exhibitions held in Taipei featuring characters she created and since the creation of Black Sweety in 2009, she have developed the character into many success art show.
She was awarded winner in Missy Q illustration competition and in L’ERBOLARIO illustration competition in 2008 & 2010 respectively. Her series of work from ”the secrets in doll’s house’’ were published in the newspaper, Taiwan in 2010.
Chang Wei-Lun
Painting and sculpture were Wei-Lun’s favourite subjects when she was a teenager in art school but her family was not able to support her to go to art school. So she chose advertising and marketing and graduated from Shih-hsin University of Marketing. Since her graduation she had work with the renowned companies such as Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Co. and Leo Burnett Advertising Co.
Her true passion is still in the area of art and in 2007 she did a mural project for a café and was cover by the media and since then she had decided to focus in her artworks and she was able to obtain a sponsorship to study fine art to pursue her dream.
Her creation <Casper and the sun flower> was collected by 2010 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival <Best Director> Chung Mong-Hong. Her artworks from her exhibition at Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei was collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2009. Her collection from (<The kid Shiou-Yu I> is collected by SHIGENDO Gallery, Ginza, Japan). In 2010, Wel-Lun also participated in a group Exhibition for the HK artist- Andy-Lou’s “2010 Unforgettable” CD album and was feature in Taipei and Hong Kong.
