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Artists

Yahon Chang 張耀煌

Candy Bird

Wen-Fu Yu 游文富

Pey-Chwen Lin 林珮淳

Yi-Li Ye 葉怡利

Don Don Hounwu 東冬‧侯溫

I-CHUN CHEN 陳依純

Zan-Lun Huang 黃贊倫

Daniel Lee 李小鏡

 Kuang-Yu Lee 李光裕

Site Specific Art Installations/sculpture

Artists: Yahon Chang 、 Candy Bird 、 Wen-Fu Yu 、 Yi-Li Ye

Yahon Chang - Sculptures

Candy Bird - Graffiti

Wen-Fu Yu – Installation

Yi-Li Ye - Happening

Yahon Chang

Yahon Chang

The Question of Beings  蒼生問 ～ 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia

Yahon Chang has reflected upon his life experiences by employing a mode of meditative style portraiture that resonates with his feelings of rejection, struggle, acceptance and love in this world. These portraits of sentient beings, while offering a variety of subject matter, present cohesion through the singularity of their compositional style. Implying a spiritual connection to the tradition of Chinese shrines, they evoke a feeling of commemoration for those situated in the past, present and future, while simultaneously encompassing their greatness and mediocrity, achievements and failures, etc.

Candy Bird

Candy Bird

Based in Taipei, Taiwan, Candy Bird is a mural artist whose international portfolio has been expanding rapidly. He has tagged decrepit concrete facades in Beijing and Berlin, filled up the walls of boutique spaces in Taipei and Tokyo, and painted with children as an outreach to communities in Myanmar and Brazil.

Trained in conventional oil paintings, Candy Bird now works with bucketsand spray. His satirical characters –the large-skulled figures for which he is known – at once make a mockery of the urban graveyards in which we walk, and at the same time revitalize them, bringing an aesthetic vibrance which he has spread across the world, from the brick bastion of megacities to the stucco siding of rural hamlets.

Wen-Fu Yu

Wen-Fu Yu

Growing up around his family’s bamboo crafts business, Wen-fu Yu acquired knowledge of traditional craftsmanship at young age. He was born in 1968 in Douliu Yunlin County and moved with his parents to Zhushan in Nantou County. Besides bamboo craft, he also developed strong interest in painting, calligraphy and seal carving. Yu eventually decided to retire from the air force nine years to pursue a creative life of crafts and art-making. 

Yi-Li Ye

Yi-Li Ye

In recent years, Yi-li Yeh’s creations have involved the integration of “parodic” clothing style with role-playing live performance, adding post-production video recordings as the final stage of the creative process. The outcome is an art vocabulary and performance form that is filled with the artist’s individual charm.

Yi-li Yeh’s creative process started from the soft thinking based on hilarity, nonsensicalness, mockery, and kuso, concluding when the design of “bacteria-person” was conceived. The bacteria-person, endowed with a physical body, moves freely through the corners of nature and urban city. The “bacteria” is faced with multiple choices, carrying multiple personalities and multiple identities; it is always evolving, adapting to every possible environmental condition that might come to its way.

Tenri Cultural Institute ~Art Exhibition

Artists : Pey-Chwen Lin 、 Don Don Hounwu 、 I-CHUN CHEN 、 Zan-Lun Huang 、 Daniel Lee 、 Kuang-Yu Lee

Video: Pey-Chwen Lin 、 Don Don Hounwu 、 I-CHUN CHEN

Installation: Zan-Lun Huang 、 Daniel Lee 、 Kuang-Yu Lee 、 Yi-Li Ye

Painting: Yahon Chang 、 Candy Bird 、 Wen-Fu Yu

Pey-Chwen Lin

Pey-Chwen Lin

Pey-Chwen Lin was born in Taiwan in 1959. She obtained her doctorate degree in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 1995. She is a professor of the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts and is currently the director of the Digital Art Laboratory. For many years, she has exhibited her work both domestically and internationally, including at the Queens Museum of Art (New York), the Media Art Biennale (Poland), the Audio Visual Art Festival (Ukraine), the Exit Art Festival (France), the Taipei Biennial, and at MOCA Shanghai. Her artistic themes originate from her experiences in and understanding of life as well as her faith. She specializes in mixing technology, digital images, and interactive methods to represent the indifference of technological civilization and the emptiness of artificial creatures.

Don Don Hounwu

Don Don Hounwu

I travel in this mutated environment only to find the balance between perfection and wreckage.

Hailing from Mukumugi tribe of Huanlian, the Truku artist Don Don Hounwu straddles music writing and acting. It has been his goal to make music that combines indigenous traditional instruments, such as Jew’s harp and xylophone, and western instruments. In the recent years, he started tackling issues of the indigenous community through various art forms including performing art, video art and installations, creating a distinctive art style of his own. 

Wang, Hsiao Hua

Wang reintroduced raw materials such as stones and soil collected from the local region which shows a strongaffinity of her interest in the place of origin, in the relationship between people’s acute reflections and personal experience. It is more of a kind of a shared experience and reconnection engaged with the local people about place, locality, time distance and measurement of the nature and related matters. Earth became a medium for direct references to land or out living environment.

In pointing to connections between earth and other materials (or human, or the environment), it puts forth interpretations for understanding experiences of actual living.

Wang, Hsiao Hua

Zan-Lun Huang

Zan-Lun Huang

Zan-Lun Huang was born in Yilan County, Taiwan, in 1979, and is currently an MFA student at the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. He has held solo exhibitions at the Taipei Artist Village and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei. Responding to the theory of the cyborg, his works focus on the combination/hybridization of robotic and organic lives as a means of understanding and exploring both the environment and oneself. Facing technological development and the application of such technologies, Huang’s works aim to discuss the value and capacity of human desire from an alternative perspective.

Bing Hua, Tsai

Bing Hua, Tsai

Bing-Hua Tsai is a creative programmer and a new media artist. He works interactive installation, motion sensing installation, and user interface design. He graduated from Department of Information Management, Shih Hsin University and received Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) in New Media Art from National Taiwan University of Arts. The main researches are interactive art, software art, generative art, and artificial life. His works have been selected and exhibited at International Arte Laguna Prize in Venice(2014), 404 Festival in Rosario(2013) and in Moscow(2014), Digital Art Festival Taipei(2013), Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award(2013). In 2013, he organized a new media art group “PSquare Media Lab” with new media artist Wei-Jen Shih and dancer Shao-Ting Lin. They mainly focus on interactive multimedia dance performance, real-time audio-visual performance, interactive video installation, and Led light installation. Theirs work “Resonate 2″ has been selected  and performed at “SLINGSHOT Festival" in Athens GA, USA in 2015.

Kuang-Yu Lee

Kuang-Yu Lee

Born in 1954 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Lee Kuang-Yu graduated in 1976 from the National Arts School (now National Taiwan University of the Arts) with a specialized training in sculpture. Three years later, he continued studying sculpture in Spain and graduated in 1982 from Academia di S. Fernando in madrid and subsequently obtained an MFA from the University of Madrid, Spain. After completing his studies, Lee Kuang-Yu returned to Taiwan and has since taught fine arts at the National College of Arts (now National Taipei University of the Arts) until retirement in 2006. Professor Lee has since been practicing fine arts full time. 

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