Master sculptor Chou I-hsiung (周義雄) died of multiple organ failure on Monday at the age of 73 after battling liver cancer for two years.
A member of the nation’s first generation of homegrown sculptors, Chou was among the first students at National Taiwan University of Arts in 1962, where he learned the art of sculpture under Yuyu Yang (楊英風) and other masters.
A Sun Yat-sen Fine Arts Prize winner, Chou was renowned for his characteristic representations of classical Chinese figures, with many works from his Nanguan Song and Dance series and Song and Dance series exhibited at and collected by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Museum of History and Germany’s Museum of Asian Art, among others.
Photo: The Sculpture Association of Taiwan
“While most fellow artists were experimenting with modern sculpture, Chou stood out with his idiosyncratic figures depicting traditional Chinese singers and dancers, making him a major pioneer in promoting Chinese culture overseas,” National Cheng Kung University art history professor Hsiao Chong-ray (蕭瓊瑞) said.
His Poetic Undulations series of abstract, linear sculptures inspired by Chinese calligraphy met an enthusiastic response at the Starnberger Garden and Art Festival in Germany in 2005. Bologna, Italy, presented him with an award for his contribution to art in 2008.
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, where Chou taught art for years, named a sculpture gallery after him that includes 19 of his statues.
Chou was diagnosed with cancer in 2013, but managed to complete a statute of mathematician Lin Chia-chiao (林家翹).
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