2023/03/14 《Discover 》｜Group Exhibition

“Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.” These words of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin speak to the fact that we, who are accustomed to living in a fast-paced life while being overloaded with information, are gradually neglecting our innate instinct to discover beauty in our daily lives. Therefore, sometimes we need to be reminded to do so, sometimes we need to practice, and more often than not, we need to be stimulated.
 
In this exhibition at TARTCH (entitled Discover), five artists—ESOW, Keeenue, Kurumi Kotani, Shohei Yamamoto, and Chu Fuchen—will present their drastically different perspectives and styles through their interpretations of their daily imaginations, and lead visitors on a journey to discover their own landscapes.
 
Calmness, chaos, beauty, and contentment all exist within a single life under the gaze of the heart. People follow the flow of their hearts and sense the roles they play as well as the labor they exert in their ordinary lives, while the artists struggle to swim backwards in time in the attempt to retrace those subtle feelings.
 
The artists’ shared cultural experiences, history, and environment triggered a series of reflections. ESOW’s style of fusing traditional culture with characters weaves through his paintings, with the characters exuding the emotions that exist within urban life through grey tones. At first glance, Keeenue’s intertwining lines and color blocks create a dazzling network, yet the uncolored areas are filled in with small illustrations, giving people an infinite amount of opportunity to imagine stories for these blank spaces. Through different forms of transformation, ESOW and Keeenue convey the fact that not only are reality, beauty, and chaos a part of daily life, but they are also a reflection of the self onto the world.
 
Both Kurumi Kotani and Chu Fuchen use the concept of “window” as a frame for their viewers to look at their work. The former uses a blurred, foggy window to reveal the aura of someone who cannot be seen and unveil an uncertain existence. The creator is hidden within a two-sided perspective, leaving a mysterious message. The latter uses the medium of a window as a bridge between the material world and the mental world, utilizing printmaking to find an interplay between plane and space. Through the guidance of delicate textures and grey tones, a space to show how the artist sees is constructed. Using self-made rollers and precise digital simulation, Shohei Yamamoto highlights the repetitiveness of digital reproduction, and examines the structure of paintings with mass reproductions and faded crystalline materials produced by the rollers, making a reproductive inquiry into historical paintings.
 
These processes of exploration in life are interlinked, whether in thinking about the structural nature of painting in today’s society or in reflecting oneself upon one’s own surroundings, all of which are part of an organic search that Discover would like viewers to go on in their daily lives, expanding their own perspectives so as to add variety to their lives.
 
The viewers’ line of sight is a kind of lingering pull that winds along the entangled lines, the blocks of different materials and the interweaving grey tones of light and shadow, gradually constructing the viewers’ personal view of their imaginary worlds and becoming a point upon which their eyes land and pursue life through layers of footprints. The official opening date of Discover is March 15, 2023, and everyone is welcome to visit TARTCH to enjoy the wonderful works on display.
 

Group Exhibition Info｜
《Discover發現》
Esow
Keeenue
小谷くるみ Kurumi Kotani
山本捷平 Shohei Yamamoto
朱夫誠 Chu Fuchen
Date｜2023.3.15 (Wed) - 4.14 (Fri)
 
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