Exhibitions

06 Jun

The title “The Transposition of Light and Shadow” borrows the keyword “transpose” from photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson’s remarks on his preferred black and white photography. The world full of colours is dissected, adjusted and being made abstract when transformed into black and white photographs. Under such circumstances, the painted space is transposed into a different stretch where colours are abstracted to...

11:53 / Exhibitions
25 Apr

Artist Yen Chun continues to explore the possibilities of everyday plants with the application of strong light and shade in his brand-new collection of works included his solo exhibition “A Thousandth Landscape”.     Yen’s familiarity with the colour green enables him to transfer the passionate scorching sun to a gentle tranquility. Artist/scholar Lin Chin-Hsien has described the greenery as the “Yen Green”,...

11:32 / Exhibitions
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
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
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
19 Mar

Chen Kuang-Yi / Professor at the Department of Fine Art, National Taiwan University Dean of Fine Art College, National Taiwan University of Art   Wu Jhycheng has had to face the complex issue of cultural identity due to his multi-cultural experiences: born in Nantou as a member of the Taiwanese Plains Indigenous Peoples, he started training in the studio of Lee Shih-Chiao aged 16...

10:20 / Exhibitions