Participating Artists
Lara ALMARCEGUI
LEE Mingwei
Su-Mei TSE
XU Bing
YANG Jiechang
Art Museum @ The Art Park is please to present International Artists Collection Exhibition which features five World renowned artists' with their 9 selective artworks. For the first time, their works are going to be exhibited in Xin zhu, Tai Wan.
Lara Almarcegui was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, who has engaged in years of spanish conceptual art. In Lara's works, she's always been dedicating attention to those long neglected desert conner in the world, this time, for raising public attention to these wasted conners, Lara is going to display her works featured wastelands in today's Taiwan. Her artworks "Plan for birds protection in Danshui River", and "Plan for old building demolishment in Chidong Street" will demonstrate her ideals and expectations though.
Taiwan artist Lee Mingwei graduated from Yale University School of Art in 1997 with his dissertation "introspection", it's more like a self-discovery meditation journey during which Li asked himself questions like "who I am"?, who's person I am? to explore the secrets of self identification exploration. the artwork Li brought is a large scale wooden installation, which needs two viewers's joint participation to find way of seeking their boundary of individual and Interpersonal relations.
Sino-Brish half blood artist Su-Mei TSE, once represented Luxembourg wining Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 50th Venice Biennale is a musician visual art talent. Tse was born in a musician family, and therefor she added music elements into her visual art creating naturally. She carry her work Mistelpartition (Mistle Score, 2006) to Taiwan audience this time, in which she found the images of forests used in the works at the side of a road, she uses to travel to and from home every day. In this artwork, Tse employs post-production images mixed with classical music, display in dive format. As the name Mistelpartition itself infers, Tse clearly views the forest as a musical score. The upright and long trees shed their leaves in autumn and winter, forming a strangely organized vertical musical score. The seasonal cold, together with the barrenness and biting wind, remind her of some of the scales in No.1 Cello Concerto in E flat major by modern Russian composer Dmitri Shostakoich(1906-1975), hence its inclusion in the video.
Xu Bing, winner of 1999 MacArthur 'Genius' Grants, and now vice president of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, bring upon his astonishing creative artwork, "New English Calligraphy", and "Post Testment". New English Calligraphy is the most elaborate treatment to date of a traditional expression of his native culture, which he infuses with the rootless, nomadic sensibility found at the core of postmodern, globalize identity. In "post testment", Xu merged two preexisting texts, the King James version of the "New Testament " and a contemporary pulp novel, alternating words so that nothing can really be read. The nonsense text resulted a bizarre effect which will crash viewers eyes, as one's 'eyes move across lines of the artwork, elegant Biblical phrases clash coarse fragments of erotic or violent language. "Post-Testament" alarms the inevitability of two different culture discourse and value system colliding with each other in reality, and the misunderstandings and missinterpretations will further suggest religious, and political standards.
Yang Jiechang (b. 1956, Foshan, Guangdong Province) is an artist who lives and works in Paris, France, and Heidelberg, Germany. In the 1970s, Yang studied at the Foshan Folk Art Research Institute, and in 1978, he entered the Chinese Painting Department at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA). Yang engaged in chinese traditional Ink Paining in his early years, later he penetrated conceptual art techniques into his contemporary art creating. Yang was invited to participate in the exhibition Venice Biennale (2003), the Liverpool Biennial (UK, 2006) and the Istanbul Biennial (2007). And this time, his Untitled 3, Fu Qian, will be on display in this exhibition.
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