The Venice Biennale has drawn attention for its focus on women artists and to the inequities regarding the treatment of women in the art world. To focus on a feminist issue may seem like an old concern dating from the 1980s. However, if there are no constant reminders it would be easy for female artists to lose their footing in the international art world, a world that is dominated by white male artists, as evidenced in exhibitions and in written art histories.
This week there are several local exhibitions that focus on the achievements of Taiwanese women in the arts. Fortunately, without being didactic, or obnoxiously proselytizing, the exhibitions act as a gentle reminder that some of Taiwan's leading artists just happen to be women.
At the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the exhibition Lightscape -- Between Mind and Matter runs to Sep. 4. The exhibition showcases the work of twelve Taiwanese painters who gained prominence in the 1980s. Many of the works on view are abstract oil paintings with a nature-based theme.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TFAM.
Wen Liyun's (
Locally reknowned abstract painters Ava Hsueh (
Another exhibition at the museum commemorates the work of late artist Chen Hsing-wan (
Opening this Saturday night is a solo exhibition by Jun Lai (
Lai is one of the few pioneering women artists in Taiwan who came to attention in the 1980s and now currently works in the field of public art. She will show new sculpture-like wall pieces that evoke springtime feelings, while her older work of brightly-hued paintings is inclu-ded in the Lightscape exhibition mentioned previously.
This last event, which is held this evening, is not by a woman artist. German prize-winning artist Patrick Palucki, who is currently doing a residency at the Taipei Artist Village, will have a presentation of his work at 7:30 tonight at the Bamboo Room at the TAV. Entitled Sign his work consists of an installation of traffic signage that symbolizes the control of masses of people and our urban collective identity. He will also show his film Today Starts On Page 23.
The experimental film is a collage of signs cinematically presented. So whe-ther you are inspired by the rural or the urban in art, there looks like there is something for everyone this weekend.
Details:
-- Lightscape -- Between Mind and Matter and The Memorial Exhibition of Chen Hsing-wan at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Call (02) 2595 7656
-- Jun Lai's Spring Ether Coming and Going at IT Gallery. Call (02) 2507 7243
-- Media artist Patrick Palucki's exhibition Signis at the Bamboo Room in the Taipei Artist Village.
Call:(02) 3393 7377 X 101
When: Film showing at 7:30, Thursday July 7.
Desperate dads meet in car parks to exchange packets; exhausted parents slip it into their kids’ drinks; families wait months for prescriptions buy it “off label.” But is it worth the risk? “The first time I gave him a gummy, I thought, ‘Oh my God, have I killed him?’ He just passed out in front of the TV. That never happens.” Jen remembers giving her son, David, six, melatonin to help him sleep. She got them from a friend, a pediatrician who gave them to her own child. “It was sort of hilarious. She had half a tub of gummies,
The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski’s F1, a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting racing scenes, approaches a kind of high-speed splendor. Kosinski, who last endeavored to put moviegoers in the seat of a fighter jet in Top Gun: Maverick, has moved to the open cockpits of Formula One with much the same affection, if not outright need, for speed. A lot of the same team is back. Jerry Bruckheimer produces. Ehren Kruger, a co-writer on Maverick, takes sole credit here. Hans Zimmer, a co-composer previously, supplies the thumping
Swooping low over the banks of a Nile River tributary, an aid flight run by retired American military officers released a stream of food-stuffed sacks over a town emptied by fighting in South Sudan, a country wracked by conflict. Last week’s air drop was the latest in a controversial development — private contracting firms led by former US intelligence officers and military veterans delivering aid to some of the world’s deadliest conflict zones, in operations organized with governments that are combatants in the conflicts. The moves are roiling the global aid community, which warns of a more militarized, politicized and profit-seeking trend
June 23 to June 29 After capturing the walled city of Hsinchu on June 22, 1895, the Japanese hoped to quickly push south and seize control of Taiwan’s entire west coast — but their advance was stalled for more than a month. Not only did local Hakka fighters continue to cause them headaches, resistance forces even attempted to retake the city three times. “We had planned to occupy Anping (Tainan) and Takao (Kaohsiung) as soon as possible, but ever since we took Hsinchu, nearby bandits proclaiming to be ‘righteous people’ (義民) have been destroying train tracks and electrical cables, and gathering in villages
RSS