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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Ya-Ting Kao, Target No. 1, 2011 oil & acrylic on canvas, 13 x 16 inches. (image courtesy of Rooster Gallery's online catalogue)
Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now, Curated by NuNu Hung
March 9-April 15, 2012
190 Orchard Street
New York, New York
The art world has been notably enamored with Chinese artists for nearly a quarter of a century, inspiring the much-deserved credit to artists that had been pigeonholed and undervalued. Taiwan is indeed ruled by the Republic of China, an opposing force to the People’s Republic of China known as mainland China. The artists in Borderless Map are products of the 70s and 80s, when censorship had been eased and the government moved toward democracy. Technological innovation led to a fruitful economy. A dialogue with the world blossomed and a younger generation of artists came to focus on their introspective contributions to the “virtual society” rather than grandiose political statements. Although the state remains constrained by diplomatic inequality and civil baggage, Rooster Gallery provides insights into a culture developing its own unique artistic production through a complicated mental landscape.
Jean Hua-Chen Huang, 1981, 2010 oil on canvas, 12 x 24 inches. (image courtesy of Rooster Gallery's free catalogue)
Sunday, March 25, 2012
「無界地圖」 台灣新銳畫家聯展 _ 在世界新聞網
「無界地圖」 台灣新銳畫家聯展
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在「無界地圖：台灣新銳畫家展」展出的年輕的台灣畫家，左起為高雅婷、王亮尹、陳敬元、許尹齡、黃華真、周代焌、以及策展人洪緹婕。(記者杜宜臻/攝影)
該展策畫人洪緹婕 (Nunu Hung) 表示，每年3月因為軍火庫藝博會 (Armory Show)的展出成為紐約藝文圈最大盛事，各國藝文界人士都會來紐約朝聖。她希望藉由這個時機增加台灣藝術家的曝光度，因此籌辦該展，並選在與年輕畫家氣 質接近的下東城藝廊舉辦該展。洪緹婕表示台灣的新一代藝術家創作力豐沛，且觸角多元，視覺表達國際化，她台灣畫家的畫作在西方藝術市場有一定的定位。
這 次參展的八位畫家有王亮尹、邱建仁、周代焌、陳敬元、高雅婷、許尹齡、黃華真以及謝怡如，除邱建仁和謝怡如因工作無法前來紐約，其他畫家皆自費來紐約參 展。這些年輕的畫家除了許尹齡和黃華真還是國立台北藝術大學藝術研究所在讀學生，其餘都是職業畫家。這些畫家共同表示，生長在媒體發達的時代，對社會甚至 是世界正在發生的議題都能立即廣泛的吸收，但是與上一代畫家不同的地方在於，新一代的畫家對議題的觀點除了以宏觀角度切入外，還有更多個人的連結。
許 尹齡舉自己的畫作「獵人」表示，「獵人」其實是他系列作品「床邊故事」中的一張圖，「床邊故事」的畫作都是以帶有「故事」化手法展現畫面的豐富性，但議題 都是深沉的社會議題。「獵人」要表達就是流浪漢的議題，畫面中卡通長相的流浪漢伴隨著地下道常見的老鼠，許尹齡說：「在這幅畫中我讓老鼠成為流浪漢的最好 朋友，我想表達的是流浪漢不是社會的邊緣人，他們是與社會共存的一個族群。他們也有朋友，也有生活。」黃華真的作品則出現大量的人像，「我喜歡用畫作探討 人與人之間的關係，所以我希望透過畫人來討論人」。
該展展出時間由即日起至4月15日，展出地點在盧斯特藝廊，地址在曼哈坦果園街( Orchard St.)190號。
Read more: 世界新聞網-北美華文新聞、華商資訊
http://worldjournal.com/bookmark/17976208
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
interview from Art-Rated
Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now, Interview with Curator Nunu Hung
Interview with Nunu Hung, Curator of Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
Interview between Jonathan Beer, Nunu Hung (translating and speaking for the artists), and Lily Koto Olive
Tabo Tai-Chun Chou
We always have different congnitive
2011, Acrylic on Canvas, 26 inch diameter.
Art-Rated: What drove you to put this show of Generation Y painters from Taiwan together?
Nunu Hung: I felt that upon seeing the paintings of the previous generation, especially in the Forties and Fifties in Asia, always had a social or political agenda. The paintings are all about images and conveying Socialism. I found that the painters in Taiwan liked to work with everyday objects; this was different from the previous generation. All these painters belong to the same generation and have been working since the media censorship laws have been lifted by the Taiwanese government. Now the work is totally explorative with a lot of elements, and nothing looks big or heroic like Social Realism.
AR: As painters what makes our generation different? Since the censorship laws have been lifted is everything open now? Are there still any restrictions?
NH: The painters of this generation, who trained in the Eighties or Nineties, without democracy and freedom had a target to react to. We all had the same target of getting freedom from the government. This was in their brains and it got into their work. In mainland China they still have this target, but in Taiwan it has become very liberal and many have criticized the work of this generation of Taiwanese artists, asking “What do you care about?” “You only care about your feelings, or you care about a piece of cake, or video games or a TV show.” Some people criticize this, but Taiwan is very liberal and it is how they grew up, they just want to do what they want.
R2 Chien-Jen Chiu
Lonely Traveler
2011, Oil on Canvas, 28 x 35 inches.
AR: In a culture and a time when we are saturated by a media-driven popular culture where does an artist find meaning? Is that meaning taken from their culture? Or are they reaching back farther into their history, into stories or folklore? What inspires their work?
NH: Before the internet access to imagery was so limited, and there was no way to access that. And there was only one angle or viewpoint to look at things from. These earlier artists wanted to make work with ideas that were large and more universal, but they were actually shallower. This [current] generation, with the opportunity to see many different things pushed their subject matter to more personal things.
AR: More individual and less universal.
NH: Yes. And with all the media and information creates translucence so nothing can really surprise you.
AR: And, then, why choose painting? In the face of sculpture, installation, video, sound, and photography what aspect of a medium that could be considered traditional attracts them? And does it have anything to do with changing the stigma that painting had with the previous generation?
Jean Hua-Chen Huang
1981
2010, Oil on Canvas, 12 x 24 inches.
NH: Painting is something you have to see in person. With new technology photography and video can be sent and viewed identically, they don’t change. You have to be involved with a painting – it creates a different kind of energy, painting makes stronger contact with humans.
AR: How has this generations work been received by the previous generation? Or by people their age who are not artists?
NH: Their friends that are artists just ask about materials, how much their going to sell for, the lighting. But their friends who are not artists feel very connected to the work, and they really enjoy it.
Goody Yi-Ju Hsieh
The Heart of the World
2011, Acrylic on canvas, 21 x 18 inches.
AR: I was really interested in the title of the show, and the idea of a borderless map. Painting and the art making have always had a connection history – creating an object is a way of placing it inside history, in a sense painting has a cartographic function. Do these artists feel that they are redrawing the map for Taiwan and for our generation?
NH: Yes, they all have this kind of ambition; energy directed towards a new map. Some of the artists want to make a new history for themselves or for their generation, but that may not be natural enough. By just working they are leaving a mark that will define a map they can’t see yet, one that half a century later will be seen.
AR: How do the artists see their work dialoguing with a western viewpoint? Are there any main differences?
NH: Since the development of the internet that is difficult. And they feel that artists who are trying to distinguish themselves as Asian or want to bring Oriental elements into their work are being pretentious. So visually, they don’t see a big difference.
For more information on Nunu Hung please visit http://nunuhungartproject.blogspot.com/
Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
Gallery
190 Orchard Street
http://www.roostergallery.com
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Monday, November 21, 2011
Borderless Map - Taiwanese Painting Now
Jean HuaChen Huang
Title: 1981
Dimensions:30x60cm/12x24inches /
Year:2011 /
Media: Oil on canvas
Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
March 9th-April15th 2012
Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
Rooster Gallery
190 Orchard Street NYC
Painting has been attacked and subverted but it has never gone away.
--- Judith Nesbitt
Curator at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art
The artists who chose painting as their principal medium didn’t express prejudices or concerns about the past traditions. Instead, painting was then considered to be an all-new medium.
--- Gianni Romano
Italian curator and art critic
Impacted by the invention of photography and new media technology, painting has undergone a lot of twists and turns in the development of modern art. One of the more obvious negative assumptions is that painting represents old traditions and systems of art, which resulted in modern artists’ resistance to the medium. Even so, a thinker as profound as Martin Heidegger believed that paintings could still deeply portrays human nature; moreover, in the art market, paintings remain the top option for collectors. In the “Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now.” exhibition, we invite you to see how Generation Y painters from a high-technology island – Taiwan -- decide to express their point of view, their thoughts, and their faith on canvas.
The featured painters in this exhibition were born in the late 1970s and the 1980s. They were raised in a time when martial law had just been lifted in Taiwan. They grew up in the chaotic world of media after censorship had been relaxed, and they engaged with the information brought on by technological advancement. For these artists, the world map consists not just of countries with specific names, but also a virtual society without real borders. Growing up in a highly entertaining popular culture and explosive information era, this generation has developed a new lifestyle, which includes new procedures for creating new content.
Taiwanese curator Lin Hsiao-Yu singles out the word “microcosm” as the most common term denoting the young Taiwanese artists’ creative traits. The younger generation has switched their themes from mapping the macro-environment and political issues to portray personal memories, private visual experiences, and the development of art symbols that are individualistic and highly identifiable, eventually bringing recognition to the artists.
ChienJen Chiu, YaTing Kao, Jean HuaChen Huang and LiangYin Wang observe people and objects around them and demonstrate a sense of freedom, as well as personal emotional and private thoughts in their paintings. Tabo TaiChun Chao, Along ChingYuan Chen pay special attention to the particular scene in Taiwan and transfer the events and role into the comic style paintings. Goody Yiji Hsin expresses herself with an imagination linked to the animals and fairy tale stories, and Juju YinLing Hsu’s art exudes a sense of deficiency and anxiety, made clear through deliberately dreary compositions. Both of them reveal people’s sense of insecurity, brought about by the instability of life, future, and society.
Even though the argument about painting’s being an antiquated form of art has not gone away, the artists in “Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now” are intent on emphasizing a painterly sensibility. Whether or not the artists are aware of their own observation methods, which consist of illustrating and even magnifying their everyday life, is up to the viewer to decide. In actuality, they convey a sharp self-dialectics and social observation. These are among the important characteristics of this generation.
Would it apply to the rest of the art world, filled as it is with Generation Y painters?
About Rooster Gallery
Occupying two floors at 190 Orchard Street (between Houston and Stanton), Rooster Gallery focus its attention not only on up-and coming New York and other U.S.-based artists, but also on artists working abroad. Principals of Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art include Owner/Director, Alexander Slonevsky, with artistic roots in New York City; and Curator, Andre Escarameia, a Portuguese national specializing in contemporary art and particularly knowledgeable about today’s vibrant art scene in Lisbon. Their objectives are: to showcase the most current artistic exploration of quality painters, sculptors and photographers and to create a space for dynamic, multidisciplinary dialogue that both stimulates further experimentation and attracts new audiences.
Friday, October 15, 2010
"Our Drawing Event"- Every first Monday of a month
In "Our Drawing Event", we want to bring the casual but serious time to all the artists and friends who want to draw. Every month, we host free drawing event in artist Brad Darcy's art studio on 80 Beaver Street in downtown Wall Street area.
Following is the policy for our event,
1. Participating artists pose for 10-15 mins for everyone to draw.
(Each pose will be 2 min to 5 mins.)
2. Bring your own drawing tool.
3. Bring some snack or drink for share if you want. (We have cup and opener!)
If you like to draw or you like to pose or both, please come to join us.
Please feel free to contact artist Brad Darcy by darcybrad@gmail.com
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
"Invisible Stranger" Exhibition
The “Invisible Stranger” examines the relationship of the familiar and unfamiliar through geography and culture in a series of work created by local Berlin artists as well as international artists. The exhibition is a joint project by Tamtam8, where it will be running from September 10 to October 10, 2010 and by secondhome projects alongside the Berlin Art Fair in October 7 to 10, 2010.
The title “Invisible Stranger” is borrowed from German sociologist Georg Simmel, who wrote the essay 'The Stranger' that states, "The Stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people. “[1]
The 'Invisible Stranger' aims to bring together life experiences both foreign and familiar into the artistic realm in order to expand our dialogue and enrich our perspective of the world we all inhabit. In this digital age of rapidly advancing technology, omnipresent connectivity, visual stimuli and increasing mobility, we are constantly exposed to strange new places and strange new people that shape us all in familiar as well as strange and mysterious ways.
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Participating artists
Brad Darcy, Jeanette Doyle, Michele Falchi, Ya-Wen Fu, Hsuan Huang, YunTing Hung ,Lilla von Puttkamer, Stefan Riebel, Miray Seramet, KuangYu Tsui, YaHui Wang
“Invisible Stranger / unsichtbare Fremde” curated by NuNu Hung
“Invisible Stranger -Be my guests”
September 11, 2010 - September 26, 2010
Opening reception September 11, 2010, 8 pm – 11 pm
Tamtam 8 Art Space
Weichselstr.8, 10247 Friedrichshain Berlin, Germany
“Be my guests” is the first exhibition of Invisible Stranger / unsichtbare Fremde and will take place in Tamtam8 Art Space. By presenting video installation works and drawings which are created by foreign artists, " Be my guests " seeks to bring the strangeness of culture difference, landscape, city sights and artists’ life experience from other countries to the host residents in order to investigate how contemporary art can affect viewers from where ever they originate.
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“Invisible Stranger -Here is where we meet I”
October 1, 2010 - October 9, 2010
Opening reception October 1, 2010, 8 pm – 11 pm
Tamtam 8 Art Space
Weichselstr.8, 10247 Friedrichshain Berlin, Germany
&
“Invisible Stranger -Here is where we meet II”
October 3, 2010 - October 9, 2010
Opening reception October 9, 2010, 7 pm – 10 pm
secondhome projects
Schererstraße 11, 13347 Berlin, Germany
www.oursecondhome.de/projects
“Here is where we meet” is intended to address social issues through modern artistic means, posing the question of how new communication, documentary and artistic creativity can build the relationship between travelers, temporary residents and original inhabitants. The group of artists from Tamtam 8 and secondhome projects will interact with each other through the presentation of both installation.
[1] Georg Simmel, "Essay about the Stranger" ("Exkurs über den Fremden," 1908)
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_ works from Brad Darcy
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_Kuang Yu Tsui work
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_outside of tamtam art space
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_outside of tamtam art space
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_opening night
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_opening night
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_Brad Darcy works
Invisible Stranger -Be my guests_YaHui Wang works
Here is where we meet_Tamtam in SecondHome installation
Here is where we meet_Tamtam in SecondHome installation
Here is where we meet_Tamtam in SecondHome installation
Here is where we meet_Tamtam in SecondHome installation
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Michael Alan_Harmonious Opposites
Harmonious OppositesThursday, July 8, 2010 at 6:00pm
Gasser Grunert Gallery
524 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011Michael Alan creates moments in time that overlap drawing, painting, sculpture, music and video. They inspire live performance and installation happenings. All of his work begins with drawings. These drawings serve as the foundation for his installations, performances, and videos. Working with a team of performers, Alan assembles living installations where all these creative elements merge.
Harmonious Opposites is about the beauty of balance in a state of extreme cultural and artistic change. It includes large and small works on paper and wood panel, a video installation, and on the closing night, Thursday July 29th, a 6 hour Living Installation performance entitled, "Cleaning the Clouds". The public is invited to come watch, participate, draw, and write at this performance.
A celebration of movement, Harmonious Opposites explores the act of occupying and embodying multiple spaces at once, without confusion. The creative process behind it reflects this idea. Pushing the boundaries of drawing, painting, and performance, it dissects and amplifies, samples, and distorts media and bodies with a touch of pretty.
nunuhung@gmail.com
Monday, June 14, 2010
Upcoming exhibition, 2010
Invisible Stranger Program
"Be my guest" Exhibition
Sept 2010, TamTam8 Art Space, Berlin
"Here is where we meet" Exhibition and Performance
Oct 2010, SecondHome Art Space, Berline
"Representation: Law&Order"
Exhibition Schedule:TBA
Location:TBA
"Be my guest" Exhibition
Sept 2010, TamTam8 Art Space, Berlin
"Here is where we meet" Exhibition and Performance
Oct 2010, SecondHome Art Space, Berline
"Representation: Law&Order"
Exhibition Schedule:TBA
Location:TBA
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Art Sync
Art Sync
May 22 - June 22, 2010
Opening Reception – May 22, 6-8 pm
Art Sync is a creative collaboration between artists from two different countries as well as a comprehensive study of the efforts and means used during this unique collaborate process. It is an experience of comparison and compromise between the individual and the collective work ethic. Art Sync was initiated by selecting four artists from both
Art Sync will house works created under a diversity of circumstances: solo and collaborative works, collaborative efforts created during the Art Sync process as well as an in-depth chronology of direct communication among all artists involved. The participating artist teams are Fanny Allié & Hoho Lin, Eric Bessel & Kai-Yuan Tszen, Brad Darcy & Yu-San Huang and MaryKate Maher & Yin-Ling Chin.
The Exhibition is received the grants from Taiwan Cultural Affairs as the first place of the international exhibition.
Installation photos
Team 1: Fanny Allié & Hoho Lin
Installation photos
Team 2: Eric Bessel & Kai-Yuan Tszen
Installation photos
Team 3: Brad Darcy & Yu-San Huang
Installation photos
Team 4: MaryKate Maher & Yin-Ling Chin.
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