Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents “Cloud of Unknowing: A City with Seven Streets”
Cloud of Unknowing: A City with Seven Streets is a key exhibition organized by the museum in conjunction with the city government’s celebration for the 130th Anniversary of Taipei’s Founding in 2014. Because this marks the first time for the museum to present a themed exhibition on the subject of urban spatiality and issues pertaining to space, therefore, two important scholars from Taiwan and Hong Kong specializing in spatial discourses are invited as co-curators, and they are: Professor Thomas TSANG from the University of Hong Kong and Professor Ching Yueh ROAN from Taiwan’s Yuan Ze University. The exhibition includes 25 important artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Japan, whose artistic focuses are on spatial contents, location-specific memories, and habitation relationships, with many new site-specific artworks to be presented.
The central theme of the exhibition deals with the multiple angles observed in today’s society, and by forgoing urban psychical structures and architectures, the focus is placed on examining the cultural elements and historical contexts contained in a city’s composition, and to closely investigate the interconnected links and implications that have evolved and been derived from urban spaces and cultural memories. Moreover, the exhibition further attempts to think outside of the box from the museum’s conventional approaches and habits with its venue, and from which, the third floor tube-shaped space is transformed to simulate a cityscape containing seven streets.
From the artists’ spatial interpretations and transformations, the core subjectivity of the city in the modern life is reexamined, and through the distinctive features expressed through the various media of sounds, installations, constructions, images, manuscripts, and objects, the audience is guided to observe the interdependent contraposition between the architectural space and the body’s memory in the chaotic and vague modern city, where elusion and reality are intermixed.
Artists
Street of Chi-Kwan
Chi Kwan CHEN
Street of Landscape
Wei Ho WANG
Kuo Chang LIU
C.Y. LEE
Yu CHEN
Street of Scales
Terunobu FUJIMORI
Jun IGARASHI
Go HASEGAWA
Street of Learning
Department of Architecture – Tohoku Institute of Technology
Tsan Cheng WU
Nick Bonner, Dominic Johnson-Hill and selected North Korean Artists
Peifeng LEE
Street of Objects
Ting Fung HO
Sheung Chuen PAK
Wei I LEE
Chung Han YAO
Street of Utopia
Ning OU
Yung Ho CHANG
Jiun Yang LEE
Street of Cloud
Che WANG
Cooper FANG
Interbreeding Field
Jay CHIU
Ken UENO
About the exhibition
Duration: 10 May – 17 Aug 2014
Venue: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Opening Hours: 9:30-17:30 (Tue – Fri, Sun); 9:30-20:30 (Sat)
Tel: 886-2-25957656
Add: No.181, Sec 3, Zhongshan N. Rd, Zhongshan Dist, Taipei City, Taiwan
Courtesy of the artists and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, for further information please visit www.tfam.museum.
Original Article published by Sue Wang at CAFA Art New.
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