For Multiplicibus, or the Treaty of the Instinctive Accumulation (脈衝光生活整形美學藝術崛起), French artist Stephane Gautier employs heterodox materials such as plastic, wood and newspapers, following in the tradition of the “new realism,” an avant-garde collective active in France during the 1960s. He assembles found objects into monochrome sculptures and collages, both real and mythic, that inventory and map the memories of childhood.
■ Ever Harvest Art Gallery (日升月鴻畫廊), 2F, 107, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市仁愛路四段107號2樓), tel: (02) 2752-2353. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 6:30pm
■ Opening reception on Saturday at 3pm. Until Nov. 27
Photo Courtesy of Ever Harvest Art Gallery
Tsai Jheng-wei (蔡政維) will hold a solo exhibition of new sculpture at 99 Degrees Art Center beginning on Saturday. Cast from copper, his sculptures of dancing figures evoke the playfulness and freedom of childhood.
■ 99 Degrees Art Center (99°藝術中心), 5F, 259, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段259號5樓), tel: (02) 2700-3099. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 6:30pm
■ Opening reception on Saturday at 3pm. Until Dec. 4
Photo Courtesy of MOT Arts
Bow Without an Arrow (張弓無箭) comprises a new series of stainless steel and bronze sculpture by prolific Chinese artist Zheng Lu (鄭路). Zheng’s sculptures meditate on his fascination with Chinese calligraphy as well as the tension between presence and absence, and movement and stillness.
■ MOT Arts, 3F, 22, Fuxing S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市復興南路一段22號3樓), tel: (02) 2751-8088. Open daily from 11:30am to 8pm
■ Until Dec. 11
The Asia Art Center (亞洲藝術中心) hosts Greatness of Spirit (大氣), an open-air exhibit that brings together 20 large-scale and smaller-sized bronze sculptures made by Li Chen (李真) from 1998 to the present. Trained in the craft of Buddhist statuary and himself a devout Buddhist, Li’s work is imbued with spiritual notions articulated through the aesthetic traditions that emerged in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty religious art. Building on this classical foundation, Li imbues his work with modern sculptural techniques that the artist hopes will speak to a new generation of believers and art lovers.
■ Liberty Square in Taipei. For more information call: (02) 2754-1366
■ Until Dec. 4
Beyond the Frontier of Color and Form (形色版圖—抽象藝術五人展) brings together five abstract artists working in sculpture and painting since the early 1980s who combine Western abstract thought with Eastern spiritual philosophy. The artists include Lee Tsai-chien (李再鈐), Tsong Pu (莊普), Chu Teh-i (曲德益), Hu Kun-jung (胡坤榮) and Kevin Yu (游克文).
■ Main Trend Gallery (大趨勢畫廊), 209-1, Chengde Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市承德路三段209-1號), tel: (02) 2587-3412. Open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11am to 7pm
■ Until Dec. 3
Taiwan’s Horse Dance Theatre (驫舞劇場) and France-based Volume-Collectif team up to present Successor, a series of sound installations and performances held every weekend at Huashan 1914 Creative Park until the end of the month. Using various sound devices — parabolic loudspeakers, polystyrene plates filed with transducers — they produce “listening situations that allow the audience to explore architecture and its resonances,” according to the press release. Extracts of the performance will be presented today from 2pm to 3pm.
■ Huashan 1914 Creative Park, E2 (華山1914, 東2館), 1, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市八德路一段1號), tel: 0918-763-576
■ The exhibition is open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Performances are the same days at 7:30pm. Until Nov. 27
Nothing like the spectacular, dramatic unraveling of a political party in Taiwan has unfolded before as has hit the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) over recent weeks. The meltdown of the New Power Party (NPP) and the self-implosion of the New Party (NP) were nothing compared to the drama playing out now involving the TPP. This ongoing saga is so interesting, this is the fifth straight column on the subject. To catch up on this train wreck of a story up to Aug. 20, search for “Donovan’s Deep Dives Ko Wen-je” in a search engine. ANN KAO SENTENCED TO PRISON YET AGAIN,
Despite her well-paying tech job, Li Daijing didn’t hesitate when her cousin asked for help running a restaurant in Mexico City. She packed up and left China for the Mexican capital last year, with dreams of a new adventure. The 30-year-old woman from Chengdu, the Sichuan provincial capital, hopes one day to start an online business importing furniture from her home country. “I want more,” Li said. “I want to be a strong woman. I want independence.” Li is among a new wave of Chinese migrants who are leaving their country in search of opportunities, more freedom or better financial prospects at a
During her final years of high school, Chinese teenager Xu Yunting found an unusual way to make some pocket money: transforming herself into male video game characters and taking their female devotees on dates. The trend, called “cos commissioning,” has gained traction in China recently, with social media posts garnering millions of views as an increasing number of young women use their purchasing power to engineer a meeting with their dream man in real life. One early morning in Shanghai last month, Xu carefully inserted contacts to enlarge her irises and adjusted a tangerine wig to transform into “Jesse,” a character from
When the Dutch began interacting with the indigenous people of Taiwan, they found that their hunters classified deer hide quality for trade using the Portuguese terms for “head,” “belly,” and “foot.” The Portuguese must have stopped here more than once to trade, but those visits have all been lost to history. They already had a colony on Macao, and did not need Taiwan to gain access to southern China or to the trade corridor that connected Japan with Manila. They were, however, the last to look at Taiwan that way. The geostrategic relationship between Taiwan and the Philippines was established
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