Ink on paper and photography
Dimensions variable
Following “ReVision 1” which annotates the achievements of MSAC’s in art consultancy and collection, “ReVision 2” will present works by artists who have been or will be in close collaboration with MSAC. Participating artists includes Victor Balanon, Patricia Eustaquio, JHONG Jiang-Ze, LEE Ming-tse, Mia Wen-Hsuan LIU, Shinji OHMAKI, SHI Jin-Hua, YEE I-Lann and YU Ji. Many of the works on show are the latest creation of the artists.
Civic culture has always been a rich resource for LEE Ming-tse’s artistic creation. LEE gained his fame in his 1996 exhibition “The Front & Rear Ends of Formosa” held at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The following year, he participated in “Taiwan: Unrecognized” at the National Pavilion of Taiwan in the 47th Venice Biennale. His recent work of ink on paper, Seclusive Landscape, blends everyday life with the style of mural painting of Taiwanese temples into a narrative that connects the physical and spiritual realities, revealing a seclusion which is distant from disputes.
Extended from the 2010 projects X Trees in Taipei and X Bodhi Trees, SHI Jin-Hua’s poetic new work Basalt under the Bodhi Tree is a rubbing/drawing of a basalt stone. SHI planted the first tree of his project X Bodhi Trees at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2010 and placed a basalt stone beside it, not in the monumental upright position, but horizontally so to provide a place where the mind could be settled and consoled. Years after planting the tree, SHI came back to capture an image of the stone by means of monoprint and drawing. The drawing is accompanied by the lyric of Leonard Cohen’s song A Thousand Kisses Deep as a reflection of the ups and downs in the life.
Victor BALANON’s set of 3 drawings, Paradise Lost (After Bergman), is a re-imagining of still frames from Ingmar Bergman’s Faith Trilogy, with each panel representing each of the 3 films (Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence). The still frames were selected based solely on external appearances, regardless of their original purpose in the narrative. Through a simple formalistic procedure, BALANON renders the images in abstract, ‘minimal’ terms as images-in-themselves, and encourages novel interpretations to arise.
Mia Wen-Hsuan LIU will present the latest of her “Shifting Landscape” series specifically created for the exhibition space of MSAC, revealing the transformation of image between 2- and 3-dimentional through her drawing objects. Meanwhile, Shinji OHMAKI, whose work is currently showing in the exhibition “Simple Forms” at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and Patricia EUSTAQUIO will also present their new pieces in “ReVision 2” along with works by JHONG Jiang-Ze, YEE I-Lann and YU Ji.
