- TAIPEI DANGDAI 2024
- 2024｜05.10 - 05.12
- VIP Preview｜2024.05.09
- Public Days｜2024.05.10 - 05.12
- Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Booth B06
Chen Tao-Ming (1931-2017) was born in Shangdong. He co-founded Ton Fon Art Group and was dubbed "The Eight Highwaymen of the East." Chen has been eager to explore the variations of materials, formations, and colors. He made use of the fluidity of water-based paints such as acrylics and watercolors to generate atlas-like tableaus vibrating with musical rhythms. The concrete matters and abstract momentum come to clash on the canvas to allow the mind to freely wander in time, reflecting his inner vibrancy of life and the capture of time.
Kuo Wei-Kuo (1960- ) was born in Taipei, Taiwan and currently lives and works in Taipei. His art is based on himself, touching the inner and outer spirit and perception. Kuo transforms memories, fragments of feelings, or emotional experiences in real life, and combines his understanding of classical painting to reorganize different graphic elements in the picture. Ultimately, these elements were developed into an image fantasy. The post-apocalyptic scenes, as Kuo said, "reveal a sense of sadness of life's journey that has been recorded as time has passed".
Liu Shih-Tung (1970- ) was born in Miaoli, Taiwan and currently lives and works in Taipei. Liu's works are based on natural and unnatural fragments of culture material collected from daily life. He dismantles and reconstructs the narrative structure of history and memory by using delicate collage and his aesthetic of creation. Liu has taken the images of Chinese antiquity and given them contemporary symbols by applying layers and layers of collage to these objects. At the same time, not only is the painting overflowing with the literati tradition of placing feelings on objects, but a subject-background relationship that belongs to traditional figurative painting also emerges.
Lai Chiu-Chen (1970- ) was born in Jiufen, Taiwan and currently lives and works in Taipei. Lai's works carry a whiff of pop art, but underneath the surface of his cartoon-like images is actually a constant painting proposition—simulation and reproduction. He collects the material meeting his eye day after day in the memory bank. And he organizes the material consists of cultural artifacts belonging to different texts, categories, and times into a pile in which reality can be seen. The fragmented symbols, images and memories have been reassembled, integrated and exported, leading viewers to think about the multiphase meanings of images.
Wu Tsan-Cheng (1973- ) was born in Yunlin, Taiwan. The subtle attraction of sound, image, and touch has caused Wu to listen carefully to sound and face its many possibilities. With the constant changes in sound technology and perceptual interfaces, the process of recording is not just about reproducing and preserving faded sound. In his latest photography with painting and modeling work, the artist piles up the traces of time and imagination, and then moves towards the past through the residual traces of carving, destruction and intervention.
Huang Chia-Ning (1979- ) was born in Taipei, Taiwan and currently lives and works in Taipei. Continuing her realistic painting of life scenes, Huang takes the information from the photographs as the content of her paintings and faithfully depicts the image to express the differences between perfect photographs and paintings. Her works are not only reproductions of photographs, but the depiction of the conscious messages in the fragments. Through the details that are reproduced or discarded by choice and the shifting of focal length, Huang brings back memories of life by precisely depicting a balance between reality and perception.
Zhao Zhao (1982- ) was born in Xinjiang, China and currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles. Zhoa’s paintings, which combine traditional and contemporary elements, explore his philosophical thinking between East and West, and reveal his connection to his own culture. His new series "Seeds" goes beyond the traditional depiction of floral scenes. Colorful flowers with dots explore the continuity and cycle of life. And the title "Seeds" refers to the Zen thoughts of the life circle.
Leonhard Hurzlmeier (1983- ) was born in Starnberg, Germany and currently lives and works in Munich. He is known for his abstract minimalist and bright colors paintings. Hurzlmeier breaks away from the traditional way of presenting portraits since Renaissance, using a more abstract way to interpret concrete objects. He executes with rare mathematical compostitional discipline. In color contrast, the geometric line and arc are highlighted to form objects such as hat, earring, and pipe, etc., creating a unique and humorous aesthetic.
Jordan Kasey (1985- ) was born in Chicago, USA and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Using smooth lines to sketch the exaggerated proportions of figures and larger body parts in architectural scenes, Kasey creates a lush dimensionality under the light and shadow, and the depth and calm colors of red, green and blue overlap with the layered texture. She depicts giant stone-like characters in a quiet and mysterious atmosphere, projecting a range of human situations and deep melancholic feelings.
Tseng Guan-Shiung (1987- ) was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Through theatrical expression, he paints realistic portraits that reflect the anxiety and insecurity in our society. In Tseng's latest work, he depicts an Asian woman dressed in European clothes, surrounded by plants and exotic flowers. The woman's exhaustion reflects the urban jungle. In the midst of questioning society, the artist seeks a way to coexist with it, which is also a self-redemption for the creator himself.
Yuki Sakuta (1995- ) was born in Aichi, Japan. She paints plants such as trees and flowers as her main subject matters. Trees, flowers, and forests are puzzles that shape the world, the emotions, and the characters themselves and, for the artist, a world of contradictory expressions – seeming to be frightening and creepy, but at the same time fresh and full of life. The yin and yang of plants, the various expressions of life and the organic, disorderly curves reveal a unique appeal. Sakuta expresses the mental landscape of the people, or scenery that they might have seen in abstract silhouettes of trees and flowers.
