Sun, Jun 08, 2003 - Page 19 News List

Awards reward young

The Taipei Art Awards are intended to encourage talented local artists just starting out in the business

By Vico Lee  /  STAFF REPORTER

The peculiar theme is dealt with skillfully. The traces of binding and rubbing Lai has left on the panels are an intriguing reminder of the previous significance of texture and individual hand-craft in works of art.

The youngest winner is 22-year-old college student Wu Chi-chung (吳季璁), who was part of the "Streams of Encounter-electronic media based artworks" exhibition at the museum in March. Wu's Wire (鐵絲網) is an installation of pure aesthetics.

A DIY projector with moving lenses turns the image of a piece of wire into sand dunes swept slowly by the wind on the screen, or a moving ink painting of landscape, as viewers will have their own associations with the images. It's a mature work out of a simple concept.

The Taipei Arts Award exhibition will run till Aug. 24 at Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

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