Geometric VariationsPost date：2024-03-12
Updates：2024-03-29
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- Event Time
- 2024-03-09~2024-04-28Tue.-Sun. 10:00 – 18:30
- Event Location
- 1F, No. 128, Lequn 3rd Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
Asia Art Center is pleased to announce Geometric Variations, an exhibition dedicated to artists known for their bold and iconoclastic abstract paintings. Born and active around the same period of time, Taiwanese artist Chu Weibor (1929-2018), Indonesian artists Fadjar Sidik (1930-2004) and Handrio (1926-2010) were all leading pioneers famed for their innovative approaches and techniques in their time.
Born in 1929 in Nanjing as Chu Wushuen, Chu Weibor retreated to Taiwan with the Republic of China government in 1949 and launched his artistic career that was to span for over six decades by joining renowned painter Liao Chi Chun’s “Yunho Studio”. As a third generation seamster and admirer of Lucio Fontana, founder of Spatialism, Chu Weibor acknowledged and immensely enjoyed the inherent texture and colours of fabrics. His works are constructed by materials with a strong sense of space, whilst the integration of aesthetics based on Chinese artistic spirit, sensibilities, and the free-spirited calligraphy style which are key elements to the “Eastern spirit”, was considered most innovative and unorthodox. As a member of the leading art group Eastern Art Association, which is considered as one of the most significant in the history of Taiwanese art, Chu strived to seek and express the eastern aesthetic and philosophy without limiting himself in terms of medium, techniques or concepts.
This group exhibition showcases Chu’s rarely seen works on glass plates. In these seemingly experimental works the artist applied a wide range of artistic techniques, including collage, painting and print making on the unconventional base of glass plates, creating surfaces which carry various degrees of depth and nuanced colour gradation that are captivating to the eye. Though lesser known than Chu’s famed cut canvases, this body oft works provide a more intimate and insightful glimpse to the artist’s diverse approach to art.
Born in 1929 in Nanjing as Chu Wushuen, Chu Weibor retreated to Taiwan with the Republic of China government in 1949 and launched his artistic career that was to span for over six decades by joining renowned painter Liao Chi Chun’s “Yunho Studio”. As a third generation seamster and admirer of Lucio Fontana, founder of Spatialism, Chu Weibor acknowledged and immensely enjoyed the inherent texture and colours of fabrics. His works are constructed by materials with a strong sense of space, whilst the integration of aesthetics based on Chinese artistic spirit, sensibilities, and the free-spirited calligraphy style which are key elements to the “Eastern spirit”, was considered most innovative and unorthodox. As a member of the leading art group Eastern Art Association, which is considered as one of the most significant in the history of Taiwanese art, Chu strived to seek and express the eastern aesthetic and philosophy without limiting himself in terms of medium, techniques or concepts.
This group exhibition showcases Chu’s rarely seen works on glass plates. In these seemingly experimental works the artist applied a wide range of artistic techniques, including collage, painting and print making on the unconventional base of glass plates, creating surfaces which carry various degrees of depth and nuanced colour gradation that are captivating to the eye. Though lesser known than Chu’s famed cut canvases, this body oft works provide a more intimate and insightful glimpse to the artist’s diverse approach to art.
