HIGHLIGHT
In the group exhibition The Simple Art of Parody, emerging contemporary artists from Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Russia and Taiwan lampoon society’s preoccupations with politics, the environment and consumerism through installation, sculpture, painting and mixed media.
Indonesian artist Heri Dono puts the heads of dictators and political leaders onto the bodies of dinosaurs to poke fun at figures of authority.
Visitors can interact with virtual versions of six animals native to Taiwan in an installation by Taiwanese collective R.B.T.
The interactions, however, come with unexpected consequences.
Yang Na (楊納), a painter from China, depicts a comic-like female adorned with jewelry. The caricature satirizes materialism.
■ Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA, Taipei), 39 Changan W Rd, Taipei City (台北市長安西路39號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 2552-3721
■ Until Oct. 25
The work of prolific Taiwanese oil painter Chen Lai-hsing (陳來興) is as intimately bound up with Taiwan’s recent history as the teahouse where an exhibition of his works is currently on display. The solo exhibit includes some of his early realist paintings of street scenes, as well as his later, more introspective works rendered in an almost surrealist style. The exhibit also shows some of Chen’s landscapes and nudes.
■ Wisteria Tea House (紫藤廬), 1, Ln 16, Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (北市新生南路三段16巷1號)
■ Until Sept. 27
Korean sculptor Ji Yong Ho recycles tires and turns them into bizarre and often terrifying sculptures of wild dogs, gorilla heads and deer in his solo show Mutant Color. The environmental sculptor is interested in myth and mythical beings. Drawing on the ancient Egyptian artistic practice of blending animal and human forms, Ji’s hybrid creations are classified according to their eating habits: carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.
■ Soka Art Center (索卡藝術中心), 2F, 57, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段57號2樓). Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 11am to 9pm. Tel: (02) 2570-0390
■ Until Sept. 20
Exhibition of a New Generation is a group endeavor featuring the photography, paintings and drawings of six emerging Taiwanese and Chinese artists.
■ My Humble House Art Gallery, B1, 12, Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市忠孝東路一段12號B1). Open daily from 11am to 8pm. Call (02) 3322-3833
■ Until Oct. 5
Cats, Beautiful Women and Decorative Borders (貌。美女。花邊心閒) is a group exhibit that celebrates cuteness. The works on display, mainly paintings and drawings, depict felines frolicking and women in various poses, one with a cat’s head and tail.
■ Angel Art Gallery (天使美術館), 41, Xinyi Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市信義路三段41號). Open daily from 10am to 9pm. Tel: (02) 2701-5229
■ Until Oct. 4
A series of silver gelatin prints by Japanese photographer Noritoshi Hirakawa will be put on displayed in his solo exhibit Unfold Universe. Hirakawa’s images question the hegemony of puritan sexual values through partially and fully nude females snapped in urban settings.
■ Chi-Wen Gallery, 3F, 19, Ln 252, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段252巷19號3樓). Open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11am to 7pm. Tel: (02) 8771-3372
■ Begins Saturday and runs until Oct. 17
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