Exhibitions
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Ice Cold Happiness - Kawayan De Guia Solo Exhibition
Aug 25 - Sep 20, 2009
The pop icon images are tired and Warhol’s time capsules have had their fifteen minutes of fame. These boxes reek of stale superstardom, copies of copies that once shook institutions. These are a rehash, if not a reboot. Against all odds, we are taken back to where it all started, the 16th century European development that is the Wunderkummer - the cabinet of curiosities. These artist’s cabinets of curiosities - fragments of a culture he has lived in and within - consist of plaster casts of idiot boxes and soda bottles, and copies of popular culture at their kitschiest, packed together tight under the guiding principle of a personal aesthetic. In between the public spectacles are ritual boxes full of thingamajigs - from amulets, to feathers, to rice grain and dried up bladder, to betel nut - used for rituals of the Northern tribes of the Philippines.
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Selective Exhibition of Ecole des Beaux-Arts de SOOCHOW
Aug 25 - Sep 20, 2009
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... -
Mythical Roots - Rodel Tapaya Solo Exhibition
Jun 26 - Jul 26, 2009
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. -
Parabiosis - Contemporary Art from Japan
Apr 17 - May 31, 2009
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.