Taipei Fine Arts Museum will open two new exhibits this weekend by artists who have won the Taipei Arts Award. I Am a Naughty Boy (我是囝仔王) offers a retrospective look at the work of 2007 Taipei Arts Award winner Chou Chu-wang (周珠旺). Chou’s black-and-white pointillist paintings depict apparently angelic children engaged in all manner of naughty exploits. The exhibit also features some of Chou’s sculptures and installations, which depict children’s humorous and irreverent actions as a means of exploring the inner topography of youth. Lame Syndrome (蹩腳症候群) is a series of paintings by 2003 Taipei Arts Awards-winner Liao Yu-an (廖堉安). Liao distills the stressful and anxious urban atmosphere of his youth into vibrant paintings.
■ Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM, 台北市立美術館), 181, Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市中山北路三段181號), tel: (02) 2595-7656. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 9:30am to 5:30pm; open until 8:30pm on Saturdays. Admission: NT$30
■ Both exhibits begin on Saturday and run until Aug. 7
Photo courtesy of TFAM
Summer Clamor (喧囂夏日) is a group exhibit of six contemporary Turkish painters: Memduh Kuzay, Fikret Ozturk, Onay Akbas, Yurdanur Senturk, Sukru Karakus and Filiz Azak. The paintings run the gamut of abstraction, collage, impressionism and realism, all tinged with the vibrant coloring that is a hallmark of contemporary Turkish painting.
■ Wingrow Art Gallery (萬?國際藝術公司), 5, Ln 175, Da-an Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市大安路一段175巷5號), tel: (02) 2325-8253. Open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 11am to 7pm
■ Until Aug. 12
Visual Illusion (迷幻景致) is a solo exhibit of photography by Elaine Lee (李宣儀). Lee’s multiple-exposure color photographs free of digital manipulation are inspired by the “atmospheric impressions” of 19th-century paintings. The artist will give a lecture on July 2 beginning at 3:30pm.
■ Taiwan International Visual Arts Center (TIVAC, 台灣國際視覺藝術中心), 29, Ln 45, Liaoning St, Taipei City (台北市遼寧街45巷29號), tel: (02) 2773-3347. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11:30am to 7pm
■ Until July 17
Legendary Glory of Contemporary (華麗的當代之傳奇) is a group exhibit of modern and contemporary artists from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China working in oil and acrylic and serves to illustrate both continuity and change in Asia’s art world over the past five decades. The artists include Yayoi Kusama, Eddie Kang, Kwon Ki-soo, Wang Pan-yuan (王潘元) and Wu Hao (吳昊).
■ Metaphysical Art Gallery (形而上畫廊), 7F, 219, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段219號7樓), tel: (02) 2711-0055. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 6:30pm
■ Until Aug. 10
Hair Design With No Hair (無髮‧吾添) presents five artworks by 14 hair designers and stylists from salons that neighbor the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. The installations and sculptures use elements of hair design to reflect on feminism, Chinese philosophy, environmental protection and computer technology.
■ MOCA Studio — Underground (地下實驗‧創意秀場), Zhongshan MRT Station (中山捷運站)
■ Until June 26
Landscape Reunited: Huang Gongwang and Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (黃公望與富春山居圖特展) offers an in-depth look at Huang Gongwang (黃公望), a master painter who infused calligraphy into his paintings and emphasized expressive brushwork to create a new style of monochrome painting. The show features 70 works of painting and calligraphy from the National Palace Museum’s collection as well as 13 important works on loan from various museums in China and presents a complete overview of Huang’s art and the influence he exerted on painters in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
■ National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院), 221, Zhishan Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市至善路二段221號), tel: (02) 8692-5588 X2312 (10:30am to 6:30pm). Open daily from 8:30am to 6:30pm; open until 8:30pm on Saturdays. Admission: NT$160
■ Until Sept. 5
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