I Created Trees with a Seed - Chi Chien Solo Exhibition

Nov 28, 2020 - Feb 26, 2021

Soka Art is proud to announce that from November 28, 2020 to February 26, 2021, we will cooperate with Kaohsiung Jianshan, which has been committed to promoting life aesthetics for a long time, to launch artist Chi Chien’s"I Use One Seed Creates Tree" new solo exhibition. This exhibition continues Chi Chien’s "Back Garden" series of works. The "Garden" is the artist's desire for the remnants of the scene after the war is ravaged, a kind of systemic edge of mutual interference between the public and private spheres. The word "after" gives the garden two meanings. One is a private domain where secrets and memories are buried, and the other can be interpreted as a transitional place, which has the meaning of "new". The plane passing through the garden is like a sharp needle, nailing the viewer's gaze. The issues hanging in the air seem to be large or small, as large as a regime’s invasion and threat, as small as a child holding a toy plane and flying in the sky. Memory.


In the new work "Back Garden: Floral Fabric 1", the concrete outlines or familiar symbols are gone, leaving only the silhouette-like abstract lines, which are like a kind of route guide or return to the truth of the original painting. With traces of freedom and vitality. Chi Chien puts the multiple meanings of "watching" into practice in his creations, whether it is from the external environment to the psychological level, or talking about the dialectics of virtuality and reality in painting, there is an invisible boundary that is constantly reselected, dividing the inside and outside. . However, the artist only opened up a garden, and you are invited to reach out.


On the opening day of the exhibition on December 5th, from 2 pm to 4 pm, we will invite artist Chi Chien to conduct an in-depth "Back Garden-Art Dialogue" with Professor Chen Benyi, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts. The materials and content are elaborated, and you who love art are sincerely invited to participate.


※This event is limited to 30 people, welcome to register online

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