Mind Set Art Center (MSAC) is delighted to present a group exhibition at the Galleries Sector in Taipei Dangdai by Patricia EUSTAQUIO, Rao FU, LEE Ming-tse, Mia LIU, LIN Wei-Hsiang, JHONG Jiang-Ze, Ana Maria MICU, Shinji OHMAKI, SHI Jin-Hua, Juin SHIEH, TANG Jo-Hung, and Christopher TAYLOR. Meanwhile, Marina CRUZ will have her latest solo presentation in the Solos Sector. The art fair will hold its preview Thursday, 16 January, 2pm and open to the public from 17 to 19 January. You are cordially invited to attend the event.
In C24, the group show unfolds the different aspects of viewing the world and being viewed on the stage through the themes of Landscape and Theatre, that depicts the transcending process from human’s encounter and dialogue with nature. The theme of landscape encounter begins with seven artists: the conceptual artist SHI Jin-Hua transforms lines into the scenery of “Pen Walking #168” by the consumption of pencils and the physical procedure; Ana Maria MICU laboriously re-creates with her body in the work through her intimate engagement with the mixed realities of existence; Taking an object-based perspective; the Filipino artist Patricia EUSTAQUIO examines ideas of vanity and vanitas, the trivial and the sublime, while also exploring the possibilities and limits of artistic expression through various forms; the British photographer Christopher TAYLOR embodies a tranquil and poetic quality of the Icelandic landscape with his lens; Shinji OHMAKI contemplates on the proof of existence by reviving endangered flowers in pigment drawing of floral patterns; LIN Wei-Hsiang constructs a tranquil realm of pure beauty built up with countless layers of dyeing, the realm where the mind and spirit can settle and sublimate. Mia LIU’s signature Drawing Sculpture travels between two and three dimensions, delivers multiple angles of observing which actually results from the artist’s genuine conversation with the world.
In comparison, Theatre as the manufactured landscape, will be in delineation of paintings and installation by LEE Ming-tse, Rao FU, TANG Jo-Hung, JHONG Jiang-Ze and Juin SHIEH. Infused with Wuxia legends/comics, nostalgia and recreation of folk objects, patterns of temple decoration, as well as his fascination with Chinese tea culture and the delight of a literati’s moral cultivation in traditional garden landscaping, LEE Ming-tse’s builds up a seemingly surreal world with details and elements borrowed from the reality. A Germany-based Chinese artist Rao FU creates mixture narrative of an ambiguous and strange atmosphere, inviting viewers to the fantastic tour of minds. Tang Jo-Hung’s paintings are embedded with powerful visual tension and in-depth metaphor. He returns to the purity of the visual language, with elaborate color arrangement and recklessly smooth strokes. JHONG Jiang-Ze has attempted to discover and collect the ephemeral fragments fracturing from screens as well as their connotations, to use his brushes generating an imagery in reflection of media as medium, corresponding the reality of overwhelming senses of theatre in the screen projections of this contemporary society. Juin SHIEH’s practice of art creation and research is always embodied through her female awareness. In her latest mixed-media work, she has the layered and interwoven world of sensibilities in the maternal space reappeared by employing floral shapes and female symbols within a specific realm.
In the Solos Sector, MSAC will present a high-profile Filipino artist Marina CRUZ. CRUZ 's creations revolve around the memory and history of her family. The creative evolution of CRUZ sees her probing into the stories of personal life and family memories, seeping down to the varying looks of the linings and textures weathered through time, to the local views and presentation of the clothing's details reconnecting with the person who once wore it, becoming at one. From people to objects, then from objects to people, this series is akin to her "family portraits". It's also worth mentioning that CRUZ will make a debut of the bronze sculpture entitled "Frozen Moment: Elisa’s Dress. Cruz takes the dress, made by her maternal grandmother; worn by her mother, as the point of connection, symbolizing the special intersection of mothers' and daughters' lives. The work embodies the transformations between mother, daughter, and woman, the reflection of the other's life in oneself, and
the sometimes contradictory weave of love and conflict between them. The artist will be present at the vernissage.
Moreover, an intriguing painting by Ana Maria MICU will be included in the Salons Sector. The artist depicts the space and captures different instances within the fluidity of time, inviting the young collectors to see with deeper perceptions, in a poetic field of vision.
