Synopsis: Reality‧Fantasy- Exhibition of contemporary young artists
The young people of new generation are living in an era of Internet. Information of the medium circulates in a great quantity and is received in pieces and rapidly. It develops the main character of dissociating of young generation. In the works of artists in this new generation, every tiny experience given by the living environment can be the element of creation or their own language that is full of expressions. They respond to this realistic world with their unique own ways. In this exhibition we invite four excellent Taiwanese young artists and tow Chinese young artists who recently participated the exhibition in the Found Museum in Beijing, in order to present the various perspectives of characters of this new generation.
Counterattack of Image
Chou Tai-Chun transforms the computer images of low dpi into paintings. The light-spots from the monitor become the exact colors together they create another peculiar visual experience. In his latest series we can see the fighting figures from computer games, what interesting is these figures are collaged onto the realistic environment. The low dpi figures are placed together with the background full of velocity and it makes the image look like to be captured during the movement in high speed. Starting with the concept of image, Chou Tai-Chun treats the canvas as screen projected with realistic and virtual images. He overthrows our conventional knowledge of image.
Peeping Tommy Boy (PTB) is a website of a voyeur creating and selling the equipments and sharing the images of peeping virtualized by Huang Po-Chih. On the website are lots of images filmed under the skirts. The voyeur even publishes an article teaching how to take a picture by hidden cam on the subway in Taipei (named: Blue-line Project) on the website. This savage behaviour once caused a ban by the Internet and reported by the news media. The website browsers have never known that what they have seen was virtualized by artist himself. Through self-pretending the image and sound, the artist fooled the viewer and the media. This work displays the floating form of lust in this consuming era.
Calling to Other Dimension
The series Dust is Dust by young Chinese artist Wang Yuyang challenges longing for utmost of human and the pursuit of complex humanity. The work of artist shows the image like the space in the universe through taking pictures of the dusts in a crystal ball with microphotography. Artist explores the faces of reality with a scientific perspective. What man can see is not necessary to be truth and what man cannot see somehow exists. The western black magic also uses a crystal ball to predict the unknowable future when people are in a dilemma. Wang Yuyang thinks that it is the same when people observe the universe and observe the enlarged dust. What more important is to find the connection between the both, like every life, it must find an answer that belongs to its self.
The dream-liked images of Kao Ya-Ting’s works are transformed from the pictures of sceneries and ruins during her travels. These landscapes arose an undescribable emotion deep down her heart. It must be portrayed through painting. The uncommon colourful and gorgeous colours liberate the boundaries of sense. Although the viewer cannot distinguish where the place is, but this peculiar space full of floating energy leads the viewer to imagine and interact with it. The outside real world changes so rapidly, and the human are unavoidable to fallow its trends. The inner landscape created by Kao Ya-Ting is the Utopia that full of all different kinds of illusory emotions.
A Kaleidoscope of Fantasy
River Kuo is an art director and an artist, besides creating the commercial spaces and graphic designs for many famous brands, he is also good at combining fashion elements into her own art creation. He represents all different emotions and feelings in life with imaginary pictures to create an isolated personal world. In this series of paintings, there is a figure surrounded by all sorts of plants, animals or elfins in each painting. The colours are pleasing but also make viewer feel towering. Although it is a world full of illusion and fantasy, the figure in the painting looks somehow realistic, therefore this world seems to be standing in between reality and fiction, the viewer can enter either one of them in anytime with no limits.
Bu Hua is famous for her flash animation work Cats in 2004. This also helps her to establish a presentable status in the field of Chinese internet animation. In 2008 her work was exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei. The same year her work Savage Growth was displayed in Shanghai Biennale and was the most favourable work in that exhibition. Bu Hua emphasizes that during the process of creation, one must have “the thinking beyond the conventional” and must “mess things up”. Her works all come from reality but messed up as possible, she let the imagination to charge a pleasant sensation to create a world with multi-levels. In this exhibition includes three animation works: The Last Phases Of The Future with magical realistic style, splendid and compact Youth Does Harm To Health and Savage Growth which innuendos the development of Chinese contemporary cities.
Facing the free expressions of art in the media era created by these new generation young artists, Modern Art Gallery invites you to participate and enjoy this fresh exhibition.
