臺灣當代藝術 From March 8th to April 24th, 2011 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce
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Arte da Taiwan 
Taiwan Contemporary Art 臺灣當代藝術 From March 8th to April 24th, 2011 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce Via J. Ruffini, 3, 16128 Genova, ItalyArte da Taiwan— Taiwan Contemporary Art Starting on March 8th, the Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce in Genoa, Italy, presents “Arte da Taiwan”, an exhibition of contemporary art from Taiwan. Succeeding to “taïwanpics.doc : art contemporain taïwanais”, an exhibition that took place in 2009 in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the other exhibition “Taiwan Calling” that has recently come to a successful end in Budapest, Hungary, “Arte da Taiwan” has been conceived by the Paris based Taiwan Cultural Center of the National Council for Cultural Affairs and worked out with the support of the Kaohsiung City Museum of Fine Arts. Introducing systematically and as widely as possible the creativity of Taiwan contemporary artists to the European public has been for the past three years the unique goal tirelessly pursued by Chen Chih-Cheng, the Director of the Culture Center. By looking for constant exhibition conceptions and ideas, by striving for cooperation projects, it has been possible to link up with several high cultural institutions in Europe and thus to enhance the visibility and comprehension of contemporary art creations from Taiwan, so specifically different from art creation in the West. Most of the 14 artists of the “Arte da Taiwan” exhibition are around 30 years old. They all belong to the new generation of Taiwanese artists whose video and mixed media creations bring up the topic of personal space in modern life, study the differences and similarities of ideas about culture and society under the influence of globalization, explore virtual worlds, reflect on consumer behavior, etc. Their works are a free expression, without any restraint, of the diversity, vitality and open-mindedness of art, such as it has started blooming in Taiwan during the nineties. Taiwan contemporary art is now peacefully conquering new territories on the international scene. By presenting the new generation of Taiwanese contemporary artists to Italian audience with “Arte da Taiwan” in Genoa, this old Italian city steeped in rich history and culture, we do hope that thus new horizons will open for a fruitful dialogue between Italy and Taiwan. From March 8th to April 24th, 2011 Press conférence and opening : March 8th from 17 :00 Panel discussion on Taiwan contemporary art : March 9th at 10 :00 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce Via J. Ruffini, 3, 16128 Genova, Italy Exhibition Introduction Arte da Taiwan is a presentation of Taiwanese art trends and developments after the Second World War. The post-war Taiwan was still influenced by the Japanese colonization economically, industrially and culturally. The effects were a positive force to the reconstruction and modernization of the society. But the cross-strait tension with communist China cast dark clouds over the island's cultural landscape. Nearly four decades of martial law (1949-1987) have witnessed the political oppression and interference everywhere in the art arena, hindering local artists' dialogues with the outside world. Because of this unique historical and political background, it is difficult to evaluate the artistic evolution in Taiwan through a historicist eye or using the common frame of reference of the "East/West". Since the colonization, the conception and education of art on the island were partly a European implant by Japan and partly a continuation of the Chinese tradition, especially the latter, which played a key role in forging Taiwanese cultural identity. But as a modernized society, we need a “cultural ID” to interact with others. In a world where people are more opening up and information exchange is accelerating, what role can Taiwan play on the global art stage? While Taiwanese artists enjoy more exposure in major exhibitions, but with Japanese, Korean and Chinese artists also absorbing world's attention, how does Taiwan create a unique identity in modern art scene? How do artists respond to the influences of their historical and political background? And how do they reflect upon their situation and cultural advantage in a rapidly modernized and wireless age? The globalization has synchronized the time-space and technology has deterritorialized the world, turning it into a boundless "info-space". This is where the budding Taiwanese artists dwell and travel now. For them, there may be no longer the urgent need to answer the history. And the Internet is more an inter-subjective mode of existence than a given reality. In other words, they think and live through the Internet, which becomes the nutrition of their art praxes and shifts their creative activities towards a more fluid, visualized, conceptualized, everyday and easily erasable mode. Besides several critical reflections on the pass of the country, Arte da Taiwan will show most of all the new approaches of the younger generation, such as the multiple perceptions of modern living space (the match and confrontation of private and public life), the differentiation and permeation of a post-cultural, globalized world, the reflection upon consumer society, the contradiction of local and international communities, and the exploration of virtual reality. The aim of this project is to present the unique vocabulary of contemporary art on the island in a plural, crossover way. The modern art in Taiwan is constantly pushing and extending its boundaries, with unpredictable potential and tension. Art is never to be named or categorized, but as it piles up, the strata will demonstrate its rich genealogy and colorful history. With the works of 14 mid- and new-generation artists, the exhibition hopes to present the aesthetical landscape in post-war Taiwan, and explore the shaping of a cultural identity and an artistic trend. Exhibition Plan Recent works of 14 artists, including paintings, sculptures, video installations, audio installations, video clips, digital and performing art. Taiwanese artists who work in France will also be invited to explore the geo-cultural influence on artistic activities and facilitate dialogues among artists. The works will focus on the crossover of history (time) and region (space), with topics like "aspects of Taiwanese culture", "expression of cultural difference", "construct of artistic vocabulary", "the new generation in media-Internet era" and "modern art in Taiwan". Panel discussions will also be held for audience to better understand, through the discussion between exhibition planner and artist, the contemporary arts in Taiwan. The artists CHEN Chi-Pan 陳淇榜Born in 1978, in Taichung, Taiwan Chi-Pan CHEN’s first works are based on the imaginary scene of the relation between his own body and the surrounding world. Through imagination and the unconventional use of found objects, the artist tries to reveal to the viewer the hidden sides of things. He draws his inspiration from the discrepancy between imaginary world and reality. In this way reality becomes more substantial and from there on history appears to the artist like a huge archive offering numerous possibilities of exploration, interpretation and comprehension. Education
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CHEN Wan-Jen 陳萬仁Born in 1982 in Hsinchu, Taiwan Wan-Jen CHEN’s video work explores all possibilities of subversion and diversion offered by the camera. Thus he expresses his thoughts and his feelings about the media or his awareness of what they are. In most of his video works, from “Way 2” up to “Unconsciousness Voyage”, the pictures unreel constantly in a loop and tell us stories without beginning nor end. Education
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CHIU Chen-Hung 邱承宏Born in 1983 in Hualien, Taiwan Chen-Hung CHIU creates installations with sculptures. His work focuses on memory. He looks for ways to turn artistic language into documentary archives of a new dimension. Education
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CHOU Yu-Cheng 周育正Born in 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan To Yu-Cheng Chou, the images broadcast nowadays by the media compose a peculiar contemporary scenery. Like a mischievous cameraman twisting the pictures of mass culture, he modifies with computer graphics what he finds in the media. He underlines ironically or poetically the underlying meanings in the lavish imagery of the media. Education
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CHU Hsien-Hsu 朱賢旭Born in 1975 in Taipei, Taiwan Hsien-Hsu CHU’s videos deal with the relationship between movement, force, position, order, proportionality, as well as with notions derived from the semantic field such as spacing, repelling, transforming, crystallizing, dividing, accumulating, repeating, interrupting, prioritizing, stripping and disintegrating. By combining two of these notions he introduces the viewer to a new relationship with the perceived object and compels him to resort to a new way of perception, as to create the “eternal intransitivity”. Education
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CHUANG Che-Wei 莊哲瑋Born in 1981 in Changhua, Taiwan Since 2004, when he went into pictorial practice, Che-Wei CHUANG has been investigating the way his pictures take shape as well as their expressive properties. His thinking focuses particularly on the possibility to work out pictures that make sense despite the fact that their continuous forwarding and broadcasting through modern means of communication tend to blur them. While thinking about the circumstances under which painting turns real, the artist questions its constituents. Further he strives for a way to materialize pictures and to make them autonomous. He assumes that the lines and shapes in his paintings are inspired by “pre-painted painting” and that they intertwine the body of the painting just like rhythm and melody in poems and songs. Education
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JAO Chia-En 饒加恩Born in 1976 in Taichung, Taiwan Chia-En JAO’s work consists of videos, installations, documents and miscellaneous objects. It is the result of conceptual projects. His creations refer to his personal experience. Each of them is an artistic move intended to burst in on the public scene. By intending to insert his own singular point of view into a continuously changing political and historical context, he tries to work out completely new situations and layouts that fit neither in social standards nor in cultural prototypes. The result from this “neither, nor” attitude are issues that match his centers of interest: influence of signs, acknowledgement of identity, common experience, strategies concerning the various esthetical paradigms. Education
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LUO Jing-Zhong 羅景中Born in 1975 in Chiayi, Taiwan Jing-Zhong LUO’s work refers to the principle of Feng Shui. It aims at reconstructing the fields where man and nature harmonize with each other. This artist regards his work as a microcosm, as an act of “reorganization”. His installations bring together objects such as water, light, wax and sometimes plants. Through a process of recreation he transforms them into pictures or signs. The viewer who moves among his works feels his senses modified and cannot but adapt himself to the new context. Education
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TSAI Ying-Cheng 蔡影瀓Born in 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan Ying-Chen TSAI explores the relationship between the body and its surroundings. Thus she questions the problems of individual perception. According to her, “most of the time, the real purpose of a work of art reveals itself thanks to the behavior and the reactions of individuals”. She quotes as an example the initiation rites of Taiwan aborigine hunters which she interprets as an enactment of themselves (mastery and dissociation) and she suggests to the viewer to use it for questioning and entering her works. Education
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TSUI Kuang-Yu 崔廣宇Born in 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan Kuang-Yu TSUI’s performances and videos deal with the adaptability of human beings to society. By referring to ecology and by means of his absurd experiments which go far beyond our society’s usual conventions, he tries to question the urban system and to redefine the environment. His performances aim at underlining the absurdity of our daily life – which we are not aware of. They offer us a kind of “summary”, says he, of the culture and society to which he belongs. He provides us thus extravagantly with another way of seeing reality or of living, reacting and facing society. Education
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TZENG Yong-Ning 曾雍甯Born in 1978 in Changhua, Taiwan Interested in vegetal biology, Yong-Ning TZENG draws plants and vegetables directly from life. The medium he uses is both original and trite: ball-point pens of different colors. The wide lines drawn evenly by the artist are the result of a repetitive gesture. While she used in his first drawings to depict carefully the structure and the nature of each plant, Yong-Ning TZENG works nowadays primarily on the creative process characterized by the almost unconscious repetitive automatism of gesture. Education
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WANG Ya-Hui 王雅慧Born in 1973 in Taipei, Taiwan What do daily life anecdotes partake of? How is it possible to transmute a meaning into another by tackling daily matters? Ya-Hui WANG works on ordinary things of life and tries to make them appear odd, to bring them into an unstable state. She wants thus to create a connection between real space and imaginary space as well as a possibility of exchange between them. The intensity of the video images results from the tension that the artist establishes between familiarity and strangeness. Education
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WU Sih-Cin 吳思嶔Born in 1985 in Tainan, Taiwan Armed with an academic education, Sih-Cin WU takes advantage of his technical skill to produce small sized sculptures which he sometimes mixes with preexisting objects. Thus he creates unreal and yet plausible things and atmospheres that raise the problem of representation and also bring to light the discrepancy between artificiality and reality. Education
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YAO Chung-Han 姚仲涵Born in 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan In order to describe today’s life, Chung-Han YAO relies on what he calls “the hyper compression of information”. Instead of bringing forward some anxiety caused by “the information boom” in present society, he rather uses the notion of “oscillating axis” to express his standpoint. Sound, light and positioning are important constituents in Chung-Han YAO’s work. According to him, people can easily decipher with their eyesight the appearance and disappearance of light. But their body may sometimes be lead by effervescences of visual effects and feel dizziness or headache. Therefore his work lays stress on the fact that people are used to “see” sounds rather than to “listen to” images. By means of “visual tension contrasting with auditory tension”, he tries to disrupt our sensory experiences in order to make us ponder over the perception of our environment. Education
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