Mind Set Art Center is delighted to present a group exhibition “Mindscape,” showing works by Marina Cruz, Shi Jin-Hua and Juin Shieh at the 2017 edition of Art Dubai. The art fair will hold its preview on 14 March, and open to the public from 15 to 18 March. You are cordially invited to attend the event.
Marina Cruz has developed along the subject matter into assorted art forms. Dresses made by the artist’s grandmother have become the major subjects of Cruz’s art since their rediscovery by the artist at the age of 22. The old clothes, mostly dating back to the 1950s and the 1960s, contain stories of three generations of women: made by Cruz’s grandmother for her beloved daughters, and became the rich resource for the grand-daughter’s art.Lately she renders the historical dresses with a refined perspective that transforms intimate family memory into vivid scenery of textile and fabric.
The course of life has always been the concern of Shi Jin-Hua’s work. For the series of Pen Walking began in 1994, he takes the consumption of a pen as a metaphor of life, whereby the pen is a subject and Shi himself is the assistant helping the pen to complete its mission of life. Shi has used tubes of oil paint as the object of personification in the latest works, and also extend the concept of Pen Walking into other works responding to current affairs in our time.
Juin Shieh’s work often features exquisite motives blending with rich intertextuality, as well as un-tied reason and spontaneous brushworks as evidenced in Abstract Expressionism. Shieh’s art has always intertwined deeply with her life path as well as intellectual enquiries into artistic practice and social structure of the contemporary era. Endowed with feminine attentiveness, her art is both tenacious and big-hearted. Through her exquisite rendering, the bitterness, struggle, pursuit as well as sweetness of life are transformed into images like a polylogue resonant with the utmost richness, ultimately into a multi-level symbolic system.
All from island countries, the three artists weave nets of fluidity layer upon layer that shapes the unique artistic characteristic of islands in Eastern Asia.Their work relate to individual confrontations; likewise, each probing into a certain concerns/focus of his/hers, such as physical performance, drawing and trace of family commentary, which fluid imagery shared with individualistic artistic style between figuration and abstraction.
