Wu Chi-Tsung’s Wire V will be showcased in Focused Movement, a group show at Double square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Focused Movement
Participating artists:Liam Morgan, Wu Chi-Tsung, Yu Shih-Fu, Shyu Ruey-Shiann, Chen Shu-Chiang, Hsiao Sheng-Chien, Sunil Gawde
Exhibition date:2018/08/18 – 9/29
Opening:2018/08/18 15:00
Exhibition venue:双方藝廊Double Square Gallery
Curator:Michael Wu
Double Square Gallery presents the group exhibition, Focused Movement, from August 18 to September 29. The exhibition, curated by Michael Wu, features seven artists from Taiwan and abroad, including Liam Morgan (Canada), Wu Chi-Tsung, Yu Shih-Fu, Shyu Ruey-Shiann, Chen Shu-Chiang, Hsiao Sheng-Chien and Sunil Gawde (India). The artworks on view all demonstrate the element of mechanized movement and use mechanical components, in various artistic forms, such as dynamic machinery, sound, and light installation; these mechanized artworks reveal how the artists respond to the reality in a society characterized by digital technology.
Since the 60s, artists have been using camera, computer graphics, and interactive sensory technology more and more frequently, employing computer programs that made it relatively easier to control and manipulate these media while sometimes incorporating various portable electronic devices into the display of artworks. These new possibilities opened up a fresh space for creation, exhibition and the presence of artworks. Today, the perception offered by the virtual world has blurred the distinction between the real and the virtual, and art has gravitated towards virtual/augmented reality. The presence of artworks seems to be cross the boundary between reality and virtuality more freely. When new media art has made tremendous progress in the virtual realm, Focused Movement, on the other hand, features artworks that aim to lead viewers back to the physical world. By demonstrating the “substantial” spirit with a more elevated level of poetic expression in a semi-analogous way, the exhibition unveils the unique place held by new media art in the physical world. The technologies for observation and documentation have been progressing every day. The so-called new media that the public was familiar with in the past included a wide range of industrial materials, readymade objects, and computer software, which have already become classic in contemporary art along with the progress of technological development and the change of time. Undeniably, however, the combination of movements created by these material objects and the concepts illustrated by the artists continues to work in a dedicated and sincere manner, capturing audiences’ attention. In the exhibition, the artworks that make use of industrial, daily and natural objects are based on the artists’ personal cultural background as well as their contemplation on society, politics, environment and the self. In their individual ways, they use the materials and the means of sculpture and mechanized installation to express themselves or create an inner landscape that imitates nature, transforming the materials and giving them new meanings.
Focused Movement is an aesthetic experiment originating from the collision between tradition and technology. It demonstrates how the seven artists have responded to the impacts from the rapid development of technological media; it also reflects the rich possibilities of expression that have unveiled by the physical world and have been overlooked in the pursuit of technological development today. As our definition of reality evolves, the exhibition is a collective statement of how artists re-evaluate the real world that they inhabit.
吳季璁作品《鐵絲網五》將於台北双方藝廊群展「專注的動作」展出。
專注的動作
展覽日期:2018/08/18 – 9/29
展覽地點:双方藝廊Double Square Gallery
展覽開幕:2018/08/18 15:00
藝術家:利安.摩根(Liam Morgan)、吳季璁、盂施甫、徐瑞憲、陳淑強、蕭聖健、蘇尼爾.高帝(Sunil Gawde)
策展人:吳中平
「專注的動作」聯展將於8月18日至9月29日在双方藝廊展出,邀請七位國內外藝術家,包含、利安.摩根(加拿大)、吳季璁、盂施甫、徐瑞憲、陳淑強、蕭聖健,及蘇尼爾.高帝(印度),由策展人吳中平策畫,本次參展藝術家的創作皆包括動力元素並使用機械零件,作品分別以機械動力、聲音及光影裝置等多面向的藝術形式呈現,探討在數位科技的社會,藝術家如何回應現實中的動力創作。
自從六○年代以來,藝術家越來越頻繁地使用攝影機,電腦繪圖,互動感應器等技術;運用相較於早期更方便操控的軟體程式來操作修飾這些媒體,展出方式還可輕鬆結合各類型攜帶式電子裝置。種種都為創作、展示和作品的存在打開全新的領域。如今在虛擬世界中的感知已足以比擬真實,藝術也走向虛擬/擴增實境,作品存在的領域在虛實間也更加自由地移動。當新媒體藝術在「虛」的領域大幅躍進,此次「專注的動作」所展出作品帶領觀者回到物理世界,以一種相較下近乎類比的方式將「實」的精神與詩意表現手法也精進到更高的層次,展現新媒體藝術存在於物理世界之中的特殊位置。觀察和記錄的技術日新月異,過往大眾所認知的新媒體包含了各種工業媒材、現成物、電腦軟體,在時代與科技的演化種種也從新媒體轉變成當代中的經典,但無可否認的是這些現實物件的動作結合藝術家賦予的理念,以一種專注並真誠的方式永不停歇的運轉,仍深深吸引觀眾。展覽中這些使用工業、日常、自然物件等特殊媒材進行創作的作品建構於藝術家對自身成長的文化背景,以及對社會、政治、環境、及自我等等議題的思考之上,以各自的方式將媒材透過手工雕塑及動力裝置來表達自我,又或營造出擬仿自然的內心風景,將媒材重新轉換並賦予意義。
「專注的動作」一展,是一場關於傳統與科技之間彼此衝撞下所迸發出的美學實驗,集結七位藝術家,藉由此次展覽,希望大家來看看藝術家們在科技媒材如此迅速地發展下,對他們產生了什麼樣的衝擊,也反映出當今,為了追求科技發展而相對被冷落的物理世界,仍有許多可以表現的可能性。在這個對於真實的定義正在演化之際,藝術家要如何去回顧自己存在的現實世界。