Suzhou Art College, founded in September 1922, is one of the oldest art schools. It was founded by Suzhou painters Yan Wenliang, Hu Zhongzhong and Zhu Shijie. It is known as the "Three Masters of Surging waves".Yan Wen-liang, founder and principal, was born in 1893 and died in 1988 at the age of 95.During his stay in China, he purchased a large number of nearly 500 plaster models of famous sculptures.At that time, the school was in the society with strong feudal ideology in Suzhou, which was the first precedent for male and female students, which was a great event in the early 1920s...

In this exhibition Mythical Roots, Tapaya ventures as a bard, part Carlos Francisco, part Brenda Fajardo, that remembers and recounts the myths of creation: the great flood, the first woman, the primordial fire, the genesis of the banana plant, and other foundational fictions of the universe. And what makes Tapaya's work important and valuable is a certain flair in speaking to a folk aesthetic, which is not to be mistaken for a forced provincial, vernacular style. It might be part of his own humble sensibility, a particular homespun attitude toward the everyday life of his milieu as can be gleaned in a previous series.

The exhibition, which has been planned since 2008, features 57 works by 18 artists, presenting their observations, reflections and interpretations of The Times they live in."Allosymbiosis" is the main theme of the exhibition, and the three themes of "allosymbiosis" in Beijing, "Excessive love" in Taipei and "Model Country" in Tainan are held in three places, in an attempt to make a historical review and introduction of Japanese contemporary art.

The representation of the self-body in Budi Kustarto’s work is about a never ending self-identification project. Budi Kustarto has started to do this tendency since 2003 when he who is formally well trained as a sculptor, cast his own body as a model for his self-representation sculptures. Budi Kustarto, then transfers his three dimensional self-representation works including its attached issues on the existence of body’s scale, space and dimension into a painting project.