Author: daguanedesign

12 Apr

“The beauty of fragrant grass” has long been a highly praised tradition in Chinese culture. The admirations from the poets and literati scholars gradually turned into symbolic phrases. Through the development of history of art, flower and bird, figures and landscapes have established themselves as the most important categories in Chinese painting.   Daguan Gallery is pleased to have invited artist He...

04:35 / Exhibitions
28 Dec

Curator-Eric Leung “transINK” indicates the fluidity of ink as a medium.   Ink art constantly changes through time. The introduction of western techniques and approaches during the New Ink Art Movement in the sixties and seventies had even revolutionized the use of traditional ink and brush. The contemporary elements take inspirations from various kinds of technology and everyday objects, extending the possibilities of...

05:25 / Exhibitions
09 Nov

Zhang’s trademark “Lego landscapes” transform traditional visual art into a new from, with the distinguishable “Houses as Boxes” style. Her paintings take inspirations from conventional landscapes as well as the ancient legend of “the world within a gourd”. The artist has also transferred her life experiences onto the images, taking the spacial composition from Surrealist master René Magritte, and continues...

06:25 / Exhibitions
08 Nov

Presence and Trajectory – the unpresentable reality

18-21 October 2019 Participating Artists : Li Tingting, Cheuk Ka-Wai, Cheng Tan-Shan
02:43 / Art Fair
24 Sep

Curator/ Yu-Chuan Tseng Living in the digital age, we are immersed in a theater of interwoven virtuality and reality, in which the relationship among main characters, supporting characters, sceneries and props is always fluid and uncertain, defined by an extendibility stemming from their mutual interpretation. These elements co-construct an indescribable performance of the post-internet era without a clear distinction between the...

07:23 / Exhibitions
21 Aug

Grace and Legacy of Jinjiang Li Sijie | Editor-in-Chief, Daguan Monthly   The Jinjiang School broadly refers to a regional painting tradition that emerged during the mid-Qing dynasty, centered in the Jinjiang area—modern-day Zhenjiang. This school was shaped by a group of local painters whose work was marked by meticulous brushwork and rich, pure ink tones, often depicting the local landscapes. The movement...

16:19 / Exhibitions
17 Jul

Participating Artists : Takeshi Shikama, Li Tingting, Cheng Tan-Shan, Cheuk Ka-Wai, Chan Sui Ying, and Yen Chun 2019.7.18-7.21 Art Taichung is a major annual cultural event in Taiwan held every July. This year, DaGuan is proud to present the exceptional works of six artists to art lovers: Takeshi Shikama, Li Tingting, Cheng Tan-Shan, Cheuk Ka-Wai, Chan Sui Ying, and Yen Chun. Each artist...

15:48 / Art Fair
01 May

Curator / Professor Pai Shih-Ming Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University Chairman of the Taiwan Art History Association   The definition of “island” generally means a piece of land surrounded by the ocean; however, different names are given to lands that fall into this definition for its variation in measurements, volume and terms commonly applied, hence we have geological words such as...

09:16 / Exhibitions