Vision Memories

Oct. 18, 2019 (Fri) ~Oct. 21 (Mon) TWTC Exhibition Hall 1 (Booth G06)

This year Donna Art & Consulting proudly leading 5 major artists from Asia, generations and style across Asia, bringing varieties of contemporary tastes and styles to 2019 Art Taipei. First is the Donna Art long time representing artist, Lu Fang, who also had feature in several places like Chi-Mei Museum, Taipei group show and Asia Contemporary Art in HK in this March. Lu Fang continues his style from Mr. Big Nose and time travel, bringing a new spectrum to his art fans and collectors. Born in 1977 Taiwan, at the age of 4, Lu Fang travelled with his family to live in the U.S. for 7 years before returning to Taiwan. Lu Fang has demonstrated his great talent and dedication in painting since he was little. After receiving the art degree from National Taiwan University of Arts, Lu Fang pursued his master degree in Fine Art at the University of Salamanca in Spain, and spent another year in the doctoral program in Painting and Conservation at the University of Seville, Spain. Lu Fang had his first solo exhibition in Ablemarle Gallery in London in Year 2008, before his return to Taiwan.

Deng Shiru, a famous Chinese calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, said that “See white as black and a wonderful world appears”. The blank space is as important as the theme of the painting for the artist FU Tso-Hsin. As a part of layout and configuration of the artwork, the blank space not only enhances a sense of space but also bring out the theme. The subtle and delicate relation between solids and voids shows characteristic and aesthetics of Asian culture. Fu Tso-Hsin's artwork particularly focuses on the image layout and a sense of rhythm. A plurality of symbols is used to stimulate the audience to imagine and explore in a variety of ways.

The artist, Yuan Hui-Li, draws mountains and stones. There are the remnants of time, the most ancient objects last in the world is timeless and historical. Life is short, if compares to those natural existence, reflecting the different living time of each being. Drawing stones is not just about “drawing” this single action but delivering a concept, that limited life is brief like flash, so we chase the eternality by restrict ages and out shine the past in perpetuity. Art work is also a type of remnant of times. By piling ink, mountains and stones are created in the painting, proving her live passage and breathing rhythm. Mountains and stones are not just what is supposed to look like in nature, they are sort of symbols. She thinks that the painting fulfilled with mountains and stones, is not scenery painting, nor an abstract inner image. It can resemble a space for expressing personal feelings, it also

Feature Artist(s): * LU Fang * FU Tso-Hsin * YUAN Hui-Li * NOVI Wayan * SAGAKI Keita

may be an issue she’s searching for, a metaphor of era circumstances.

The Japanese artist Keita SAGAKI features his first solo in Taipei in February 2019, leading insane exposures from media press like CNN, Elle, Taiwan Tatler, Prestige magazine, etc. Keita constantly tries to figure out a way to become both Manga artist and artist in his creations. Further, he cleverly blends some contrast at hands, such as high and low, west and east, near and far (distance of viewing). From his interview, we can understand the conjunction of Western masterpiece and Japanese manga is originated from his ref lections on the essential differences between Eastern and Western paintings. “Western paintings and Japanese art contain many conflicting concepts,” Keita SAGAKI explained in an email interview for CNN style. “Western paintings offer depth, while my characters are flat. Even in many classical Japanese paintings, perspective is not applied quite as much.” This is why western artists are often amazed by the so-called Japonisme for the extraordinary style of spaces. The convergence of Western art and Japanese culture has a history over 100 years. Nevertheless, Keita’s work can be said to have turned a new leaf for it. If Ukiyo-e enters the hall of art in the form of profiling ordinary people’s daily life, we could say Keita Sagaki blurs the boundary between high art and low art with his creations that composing manga characters into the masterpiece. The distinction of two (high & low art) can simply tell from the distance of viewing to Keita’s works.

Indonesian artist Wayan NOVI’s works combine folk art and Pointillism through a series of marks and dots to deconstruct traditional still object painting. “Repeating the Story” however, transforms picture into Programmatic context, transcending hyper dimensional level purely on canvas. Thus turn it into soft, dreamlike objects from the layers of colors.

The theme for Art Taipei, Vision Memories, come from the feedback of art society in Taiwan to Donna Chen’s style of art collections. As a fan of detailed works and layers of crafts, Donna seems to collect artists’ retina as well as their artworks, in which give strong essence of artists’ creative and crafty spirit. Therefore, Donna Art and Consulting will bring these four artists and their masterpiece to Art Taipei and the world-class collectors and art lovers.