Taipei Art Award winners Llunc Lin (林昆穎) and Chen Chih-chien (陳志建) team up with a series of installations in The Flowing Feast (流水席). The show, which examines the motifs of time and the environment, features their most recent video, photography and light installation pieces.
■ Galerie Grand Siecle (新苑藝術), 17, Alley 51, Ln 12, Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德路三段12巷51弄17號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 1pm to 6pm.
Tel: (02) 2578-5630
■ Until Nov. 8
The Story of Shanghai presents a series of oil paintings, watercolors and ink paintings by 50 artists reflecting the momentous changes that have taken place in Shanghai since the 1930s. The works on display were borrowed from the Shanghai Art Museum.
■ Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), 181, Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市中山北路三段181號). Open daily from 9:30am to 5:30pm, closes at 8:30pm on Saturdays. Tel: (02) 2595-7656
■ Until Nov. 8
Yang Chih-fu (楊智富) presents a new series of oil on canvas expressionist works in a solo exhibit at Impressions Gallery.
■ Impressions Art Gallery (印象畫廊), 40, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市仁愛路四段40號). Open Tuesdays to Fridays from 10:30am to 7pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 7pm. Tel: (02) 2705-9966
■ Until Oct. 25
Open Your Mind is a group exhibition by five young German artists, including Matthias Galvez, Amely Spotzl and Bernd Zollner, who work in paint, installation, photography and mixed media.
■ Aki Gallery (也趣), 141 Minzu W Rd, Taipei City (台北市民族西路141號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 12pm to 6:30pm. Tel: (02) 2599-1171
■ Until Nov. 1
Anima (魔幻) is an animation festival that brings together 56 works by artists from Taiwan, France and the US.
The animation production techniques range from traditional media such as hand-drawn puppets to the latest in digital 3D computer animation.
■ Digital Arts Center (台北數位藝術中心), 180 Fuhua Rd, Taipei City (台北市福華路180號). Open Fridays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 7736-0708. On the Net: www.dac.tw
■ Until Oct. 25
Functionality is the underlying concept of Creative Living: Selected Exhibition of New Ceramic Works (創意生活。陶瓷新品評鑑展). The group exhibit of contemporary ceramics features 57 works organized according to five themes: household, ornamental, industrial, sanitary and architectural.
■ Yingge Ceramics Museum (鶯歌陶瓷博物館), 200 Wenhua Rd, Yinge Township, Taipei County (台北縣鶯歌鎮文化路200號). Open Tuesdays to Fridays from 9:30am to 5pm, closes at 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Tel: (02) 8677-2727
■ Begins Saturday, until Dec. 13
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
Peter Brighton was amazed when he found the giant jackfruit. He had been watching it grow on his farm in far north Queensland, and when it came time to pick it from the tree, it was so heavy it needed two people to do the job. “I was surprised when we cut it off and felt how heavy it was,” he says. “I grabbed it and my wife cut it — couldn’t do it by myself, it took two of us.” Weighing in at 45 kilograms, it is the heaviest jackfruit that Brighton has ever grown on his tropical fruit farm, located