In human history, many civilizations originated from places with entwining mountains and rivers. As culturally diverse country, Taiwan is a land of converging mountains and rivers with an artistic environment that promises abundance and vibrancy. The 2023 Next Art Tainan features ten winners of the award and fourteen invited artists/art groups from around Taiwan, bringing together their works of divergent creative media that engage in different topics and issues. With the award’s unique mechanism as the foundation, the Next Art Tainan takes place in ten art galleries/art spaces in Tainan and is presented through various context of dialogue.

Soka Art is pleased to announce that the duo exhibition In the Mountains and Seas by artists Zhou Mingde and Wang Yiya will be held from April 2, 2023, to April 23, 2023. Zhou Mingde uses mountains as the theme to create works, exploring the mysteries hidden within the changing natural landscape; Wang Yiya constructs a fantasy world on the sea, expressing philosophical thoughts of individual life from a delicate female perspective. The two artists project their inner selves into their paintings, just like mountains and sea meet again, bringing the power of nature and primal feelings into harmony.

What KAWAI has created is a world without adults, real pressure, nor growing pains - a land of fantasy called childhood that shuns the real world forever; a kind of simplicity and kind-heartedness that humans yearn for.

Journey, as an important theme of artistic creation, refers not only to the distance one travels in and through landscapes, but also to the traces he or she lefts after interacting between different physical dimensions. Whether strolling in the city or wandering through the countryside, artists transform what they see and experience into infinite creative potential in the continuous transformation of space and time. By sketching, stacking, and interweaving imagery on canvas, artists express their memories and emotions into contour and colors with ease.