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ART TAICHUNG 2024
Participating artists
YU-YU YANG | AI-HUA HSIA | WANG WU | Ling Liang Tsai | Jun T. Lai | Yu Peng | Huang Yu-Hao | CHIH-CHENG HUANG | LIN CHIH-AN
Exhibition introduction
At this year's Taichung Art Fair, Yuelin Gallery will showcase the works of five outstanding Taiwanese artists: Yang Yingfeng, Hsia Ai-Hua, Wang Wu, Huang Chih-Cheng, and Lin Chih-An. The works of these five artists span different media and styles, ranging from painting to sculpture. Each artist, through their unique creative language, reflects the current social, cultural, and inner aspects of individuals, interpreting the beauty of life in a unique way and leading us into a world full of imagination.
YU-YU YANG's later "Stainless Steel Series" represents the mature period of his creative career, incorporating Chinese ecological aesthetics and Buddhist philosophy into advanced, modern materials and simple abstract forms. His stainless steel mirror works reflect a purity and cleanliness akin to Song porcelain, incorporating the surrounding environment and viewers into the pieces. Through curved viewpoints, they soften the atmosphere, achieving a harmonious unity with the environment and the viewer. Yang Yingfeng's art takes nature as its teacher, respecting, beautifying, and protecting nature while integrating it into everyday life, embodying the contemporary concept of "art in life, life in art."
AI-HUA HSIA, known for her lively dry lacquer technique, will present her "Night Zoo" series at this fair. Continuing her unique creative mode, she layers natural raw lacquer and burlap to form the shapes of her works, colors them with self-made colored lacquer, and finally applies pure gold Kyoto foil, known as lacquer foil. Each step is time-consuming and complex, showcasing the delicate texture of the works in both material and technique.
For Wang Wu, creation and exhibition are forms of learning, demonstrating his concern for and love of art history, as well as the process of navigating and extracting nutrients from different systems. As an artist, he deeply understands the importance of being an art apprentice. In his study of folk art, Wang Wu has conducted extensive fieldwork, admiring and absorbing the boldness and simplicity of rural artists' brushstrokes. In recent years, he has heavily incorporated hand-drawn elements into his woodblock prints, blending in paper-cutting elements to create unique works.
CHIH-CHENG HUANG is deeply attracted to the dual nature of foil, which is both fragile and strong. His works focus on the formation of phenomena, questioning the solidity of contemporary constructed realities through personal experience. His creations often reflect on his childhood years, exploring the qualitative changes in interpersonal relationships and touching on various aspects of life and the perception of time. To Huang Chih-Cheng, boundaries are always ambiguous, with people never seen again able to reunite in memory, and unrelated things able to connect through imagination. Thus, his works create subtle disturbances in the ordinary, suggesting the possibility of another perceptual world and adding new perspectives to everyday life.
LIN CHIH-AN's creations extend from traditional sculpture to installation art, transforming the figures in her sketches into three-dimensional sculptures. Her works seem to express the depression of the disenfranchised generation, with the eyes of the figures revealing a sense of lonely disillusionment. For Lin Chih-An, her pursuit is merely an inner peace, finding it within herself without external seeking, contained within her own space.