- Kuo Wei-Kuo｜Old-School ‧ Schemas
- 2025｜10.11 - 11.22
- Opening｜2025.10.11 4pm
- Lin & Lin Gallery
Lin & Lin Gallery is pleased to present Kuo Wei-Kuo's solo exhibition Old-School．Schemas in October. The title of the exhibition, “Old-School,” not only refers to a vintage and retro aesthetic, but also symbolizes that the artist's steadfast dedication to painting and his homage to the classics. Kuo draws on his personal “Old-School imagery memory bank,” by capturing, filtering, and recomposing fragments of life experiences and cultural memories to create a unique visual vocabulary. In an era of information explosion and rapidly shifting images, these “old-school” schemas which tempered and distilled over time, bear witness to an ongoing dialogue with the contemporary.
“Though they may seem ordinary, every sparkling moment in life is passing into the past.
Unintentionally, I tucked them away into that slightly faded, dust-covered 'old-school' classic archive.”
— Kuo Wei-Kuo
The works in this exhibition, which superficially appear to continue artist's previous form and image of work, in fact the elements that once served as mere backdrops now replace the artist's own image, stepping forward as protagonists. Through this process of reorganization and rearrangement, the “old-school” symbols transcend mere representation of the classics. They carry the artist's personal perceptions, reflect collective memories shaped by their era, and extend into new narrative possibilities within the contemporary context.
Kuo Wei-Kuo was born in Taipei, 1960, graduated from M.F.A of Taipei National University of the Art, Taipei, Taiwan. He co-founded the Taipei Painting School in 1985 and since then he has participated actively in Taiwan's modern art movement. In 1994 and 1996, his works were shown in the Biennale at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. In 1998, Kuo co-founded the Hantoo Art Group. He was the first chairman in 1998 and 202. His works had been exhibited in New York, Paris, Perth, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Okinawa, Seoul, Gwangji, Beijing and Chongqing, and he had also held solo exhibition in the important institutions, such as Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Today Art Museum, Beijing, Nanjo Art Museum, Okinawa, and Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul. His works have received international attention and support and have been collected by several important art institutions, such as Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Hong-Gah Museum, Nanjo Art Museum in Okinawa, Dimension Endowment of Arts, Catcher Educational Foundation, and Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation. Kuo was awarded the eighth Modern Painting Award from Li Zhongsheng Foundation in 2004. In 2005, he was awarded the fifth Liao Chi-Chun Fund of Taipei Culture Foundation.
