Chinese artist Chen Shi (陳實) documents China’s print media in (non) Media (非‧媒介), a solo show of paintings. Chen’s work, which could be described as a mixture of pop and collage, is a conglomeration of images culled from newspapers, magazines and leaflets from lampposts that he assembles on canvas.
■ Jia Art Gallery (家畫廊), 1F-1, 30, Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市中山北路三段30號1樓之1), tel: (02) 2591-4302. Open daily from 10am to 6pm
■ Opening reception on Sunday at 2pm. Until Dec. 11
Photo courtesy of Jia Art Gallery
Eight emerging artists explore the nature of motion and its relationship to space in Absolute Motion (運動体). Inspired by the artists’ daily observations, the exhibition of audio, light and video installation plays with human perceptions and emotions.
■ Digital Arts Center (台北數位藝術中心), 180 Fuhua Rd, Taipei City (台北市福華路180號), tel: (02) 7736-0708. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm
■ Opening reception on Sunday at 2pm. Until Dec. 18
photo courtesy of Digital Arts Center
La Mer (海) is a solo show of color photography by emerging artist Lee Li-chung (李立中). As the title suggests, these photos capture the calm beauty of Taiwan’s oceanscapes. Lee will give a lecture on his work on Saturday at 4pm.
■ Fotoaura Institute of Photography (海馬迴光畫館), 2F, 83, Chenggong Rd, Greater Tainan (台南市成功路83號2樓), tel: (06) 200-8856. Open Wednesdays to Sundays from 1pm to 8pm
■ Opening reception on Saturday at 3pm. Until Nov. 20
Blooming at Ease (花開自在) is a new series of paintings by King Fen-hwa (金芬華). King’s paintings display a bizarre contrast between grids of geometric space and flowers in soft hues of pink and orange. The juxtaposition of these disparate elements provokes discordant emotions in the viewer.
■ Liang Gallery (尊彩藝術中心), 366 Ruiguang Rd, Taipei City (台北市瑞光路366號 ), tel: (02) 2797-1100. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm
■ Opening reception on Saturday at 3pm. Until Nov. 27
The Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts will host a retrospective exhibit on the work of Szeto Keung (司徒強). The show will feature his early installation works and later photo-realist paintings.
■ Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (關渡美術館), 1 Xueyuan Rd, Taipei City (台北市學園路1號), tel: (02) 2893-8870. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 5pm
■ Opening reception on Friday at 5pm. Until Dec. 18
A Block (A棟) is a solo exhibit of imaginative architectural paintings by Chen Chien-jung (陳建榮). Chen uses an ambiguous spatial grammar and unorthodox perspectives to form environments that are both false and real.
■ IT Park Gallery (伊通公園), 41 Yitong St, Taipei City (台北市伊通街41號), tel: (02) 2507-7243. Open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 1pm to 10pm
■ Until Nov. 19
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
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. Based on its dimensions compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the Triassic Period creature, which they named Ichthyotitan severnensis, was between 22-26 meters long. That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would