- TAIPEI DANGDAI 2023
- 2023|05.12 - 05.14
- Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Booth B12
Lin & Lin Gallery is pleased to participate in Taipei Dangdai 2023. The exhibition will showcase latest artworks by artists Chen Tao-Ming, Chen Chieh-Jen, Liu Shih-Tung, Lai Chiu-Chen, Huang Chia-Ning, Shen Liang and Zhao Zhao, presenting the diverse landscapes of contemporary art in their paintings and exploring the personal reflection of the artists.
Chen Tao-Ming 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 replace dense oil paints, and to generate atlas-like tableaus vibrating with musical rhythms. Through his brush strokes, 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.
Chen Chieh-Jen addresses political and economic issues in his work. However, he believes that art should not only criticize and reveal political, economic, and perceptual manipulation, but also promote the creation of experimental communities and mutual learning, and so he incorporates these pursuits into the process of producing his videos. Using poetic, dialectical imagery, Chen generates a different perceptual and political space from difficult to articulate bodily experiences and memories, individuals in nebulous states of spiritual disintegration, and various indistinct or marginalized areas within society.
Liu Shih-Tung's works are based on natural and unnatural fragments of culture material collected from daily life. He dismantles and reconstructs the narrative structure and reality of history and memory by using unique and delicate collage and the aesthetics of creation. Liu gives the images of Chinese antique a contemporary symbol by applying layers and layers of collage. At the same time, the painting is overflowing with the literati tradition of placing feelings on objects. The images of the antiques are given a new life, inheriting the aesthetic traces of the past whilst engaging in a dialogue with history from a different perspective.
Lai Chiu-Chen's works carry a whiff of pop art. Western Pop Culture and the aesthetics of Japanese animation seem to appear frequently in his works, but underneath the surface of his cartoon-like images is actually a constant painting proposition —simulation and reproduction. The spiritual expression of oriental culture, which is beyond the painting, and the unique relation between pop culture’s elements are hidden in the layers and layers of the images, presenting the artist's personal narrative logic and worldview.
Huang Chia-Ning continues her realistic painting of life scenes and brings back memories of life by precisely depicting a balance between reality and perception. Huang takes the information from the photographs as the content of her paintings. Her works are not only the reproduction of photographs, but more often than not, they depict the conscious messages in the fragments. The visual experiences filled with personal perceptions such as details that are reproduced or discarded by choice, the shifting of focal length, or even the hundreds of times magnified image become a kind of existence outside of time.
Shen Liang closely observes daily life and combines the spirit of Chinese ink with the medium and technology of Western art. In Shen's "repetitive painting" approach, he depicts ordinary objects such as sunflower seeds in a concrete way. The aesthetic tradition that runs in his veins is practiced to realize. The Painted Book Series on the other side could be regarded as the expression and extension of Shen's interest in imitating Traditional Chinese paintings. He reconstructs a world of imagination through Eastern defacement.
Zhao Zhao uses a variety of media to transform realistic subject matters and artistic forms, focusing on the relation between individual consciousness and social sphere in which he lives. His works are diverse in expression and constantly challenge traditional ideologies, while still carrying a poetic aesthetic under the critical aspect. The fusion of traditional and contemporary elements explore the unique development of his art and draw the outline for the dialectic path of conflictual and struggling, yet sweet and ambiguous circumstances in life, telling stories that are tremendous poetical and allegoric.
Chen Chieh-Jen|Artist Statement and Videos of In a World Losing Multiple Worlds