The Taiwan Design Expo (台灣設計展) is in Taitung this year with food tastings, live concerts, workshops, art shows and a large-scale exhibition of the best in design today. Highlights include new bicycle technology, designs that use Taitung’s agricultural products and a photography exhibition on the future of Orchid Island. For the full schedule of events, visit www.designexpo.org.tw.
■ Taitung Sugar Factory (台東糖廠), 191 Zhongxing Rd Sec 2, Taitung City,(臺東市中興路二段191號), open 9:30am to 9:30pm up to August 10, open 10am to 7pm from August 11 to 17. Free admission
■ Until Aug. 17
PPhoto courtesy of TFAM
Without Boundaries (無邊界) is a solo exhibition of oil paintings and pastels by Chiu Bing-heng (邱秉恆). Chiu moves traditional Chinese landscapes into a contemporary environment, breaking down flower-covered meadows into abstract and vivid striations of color.
■ 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) 2595-2449. Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10am to 6pm
■ Opens tomorrow. Until Oct. 5
Photo courtesy of Jia Art Gallery
In City Spirit (城市幽靈), Liu Yunyi (劉芸怡) presents photographs of abandoned architecture. On her travels in Germany, Turkey and Taiwan, Liu took portraits that show beautiful detailing on disused buildings within a limiting and anxiety-producing frame. In Sanshia (三峽), Taiwan, Liu documented Baroque-inspired buildings constructed during the Japanese colonial era. From Kinmen County, there are discarded western-style buildings — pet projects of successful native sons who came back to build them and then left again.
■ Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 181, Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei (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 and until 8:30pm on Saturdays. Admission: NT$30
■ Until Sept. 2
Tsuki-yomi (月讀) features 26-year-old Japanese ceramicist Satoshi Kino, winner of this year’s international ceramics competition V BICMA. His latest series is pale hand-molded discs and undulating stripes of white porcelain — interpretations of water, sky and plants and other natural elements.
■ Yingge Ceramics Museum (鶯歌陶瓷博物館), 200 Wenhua Rd, New Taipei City (新北市文化路200號), tel: (02) 8677-2727. Open Mondays to Fridays from 9:30am to 5pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 9:30am to 6pm, closed first Monday of the month. Free admission
■ Until August 17
Therefore, X=X (因此,X等於X) transforms key moments of 20th-century Taiwanese pop history into art and asks audiences to confront them again. Teng Chao-Ming (鄧兆旻) is showing four pieces made over six years, inspired by a Taiwanese novel (A Family Catastrophe (家變), a short-story collection (Taipei People (臺北人)), a movie (A Brighter Summer Day (牯嶺街少年殺人事件> )and a song A Flower in the Rainy Night (雨夜花). “Encounters with the audience will surely destabilize these works, and the challenges I face, is to make these new events diverse, reflective, and interesting. There will be, of course, cases when the audience meets my work, they see dead-ends, which are of equal interest to me,” Teng writes in the gallery notes.
■ Project Fulfill Art Space (就在藝術空間), 2, Alley 45, Ln 147, Xinyi Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市信義路三段147巷45弄2號), tel: (02) 2707-6942. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 1pm to 6pm
■ Until Sept. 7
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