Currently on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s (TFAM), Time Games: Contemporary Appropriations of the Past brings together 150 works, dating back to the early 1990s, by 23 contemporary Taiwanese artists working in mixed media, painting and installation art. Among the artists participating in the exhibition is calligraphy artist Tong Yang-tze, who has invited two artists that work in different areas — singer-songwriter Cheer Chen and architect Eric Yao — to collaborate with her on her creative project titled “A Movement without Sound.” Each individual uses their own musicality in selecting 24 works or less from Yang’s 100-piece calligraphic series, recombining them and putting them on display in succession at the exhibition.
Chen’s part of the exhibit, which is already on display, takes the theme “lightness, soul,” and uses 14 of Tong’s works to express women’s unique soulfulness and sensitivity as well as the temporal and spatial fluidity of music. Eric Yao’s part of the exhibit will begin on May 8, working under the theme “a contradictory pursuit within music,” to represent Tong’s work. Time Games: Contemporary Appropriations of the Past will be on display until June 10.
(Liberty Times, Translated by Kyle Jeffcoat)
photo: Lin Cheng-kung, Liberty Times
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北美館「台灣當代．玩古喻今」特展九十年代以來，二十三位臺灣當代藝術家的一百五十件作品，採用多媒體、繪畫與裝置藝術，參展藝術家之一書法藝術家董陽孜以《無聲的樂章》創作計畫邀請另外二位不同領域創作者，分別是創作歌手陳綺貞與建築師姚仁祿，以此計畫概念，各自從董陽孜的一百件「點墨系列」中，依個人所感受的音樂性，選出其中作品（二十四件以內）重新組合拼接，於展覽期間接力展出。
已開始展出，陳綺貞以「輕，靈」為主題，以十四件「點墨系列」表達女性獨特的靈氣和敏銳，以及對於音樂在時間與空間中所呈現的流動特質；五月八日將登場的姚仁祿，則將以「矛盾的在音樂裡追求…」為題，重新呈現董陽孜的作品。「台灣當代．玩古喻今」展出至六月十日。
（自由時報記者凌美雪）
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