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Lucio Fontana

- Concetto Spaziale

1960

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Hey! My annual salary is just twenty taels of silver! How could they raise it again?

[i.d.: six gifs from the series “the sleuth of the ming dynasty” showing Tang Fan and Dong’er chatting in a dimly lit room full of stacked books and papers. 

Tang Fan sits on a low table with a thick bed cover around him and Dong’er sits on the ground to his right. As they both eat, she says in a cheeky tone, “You’re a lower sixth rank official. But every day you do nothing except writing these novels. Now you can’t afford the rent and you’re here all angry and cynical. who can you blame?”. As she speaks, Tang Fan turns to look at her with an incredulous expression. He answers, “How dare a little girl tell me how to behave as an official? Do you know anything about national affairs?”. She looks at him pointedly and asks, “Do you?”. Tang Fan lets out a dry laugh and looks down as he takes the bed cover off of his shoulders, then looks back up at her in mock offense. /end i.d.]

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Chen Shun-Chu /Taiwanese, 1963 -2014

Kaohsiung Main Station 1999

B&W Photo, Aluminum, Iron, Paint, Wood,  100 x101 x 15 cm 

© 2010-2016 TFAM

Chen is representative of mid-career artists who came to prominence in Taiwan’s post martial law period. Images for his intensely emotional artwork come from his own family. In the 1990s he started making mixed media work with photographic images, which introduced freshness and rigor into the art world of Taiwan with their restrained style and subtle connotations.

Coral Stone Mountain - The retrospective is named for coral stone, a natural building material found in the Penghu Islands, to express the artist’s complex feelings of attachment for his hometown and family. Using their wisdom of local materials, settlers who arrived in Penghu several hundred years ago gathered light and porous coral stones from the ocean to construct walls and houses to withstand the powerful winds that frequently lashed the islands. These structures still stand today, protecting descendants of those first ancestors from Penghu’s cold winds and burning sun.

https://www.tfam.museum/Exhibition/Exhibition_page.

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You will grow up one day. And then you will encounter love, hatred, and separation: all the vicissitudes of life. Maybe you have to leave someone, or they simply die. Anyways, you should always cherish the moment.

[id: three gifs from episode 27 of the series “The Sleuth of The Ming Dynasty” showing Tang Fan and Dong’er sitting side by side at the entrance of a room, quietly talking. Tang Fan looks exhausted as he speaks. He tells her, “Cherish the people you love while you can. Cherish every day of life. So that when the day of departure finally arrives, you will have no regrets.” Dong’er looks at him and nods firmly as she cries, then looks down and a tiny smile appears on her face. /end id]

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It’s good to see you come back, Dong’er.

[ID: five gifs from episode five of the series “The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty”. The first two are a wide shot of Dong’er entering the courtyard at Sui Zhou’s home, accompanied by officer Xue Ling. She runs across the place and jumps into Tang Fan’s arms as they call to each other. She cries, “your excellency!” with her face hidden on his chest, and he looks down at her with a tiny smile. When she finally takes a step back, she wails and Tang Fan says jokingly, “who is this ugly girl? Go inside and wash yourself.” /end ID]

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「未完成，黃華成」

An Open Ending: Huang Hua-Cheng

2020/05/09 - 2020/11/08

臺北市立美術館 Taipei Fine Arts Museum / 3B

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Christine Meisner The Freedom of, 2015–2016 installation of drawings and video

In 1954 the radio show “Music USA—The Jazz Hour” went on air for the first time. Broadcast by Voice of America radio station and produced by the U.S. Office of War Information, the show played a major role in the global expansion and reception of jazz. Promoted as the “voice of freedom” the U.S. government regarded it as an important means to reach out to the world and spread Western ideas. However, communist and socialist governments and apartheid regimes banned the program so the show could only be received illegally. While radio listeners worldwide felt the music was “played by someone, who is free,” African-American jazz musicians experienced racism and discrimination on a daily basis in their homeland.

The Freedom of sets out as an investigation into a lost chapter in radio history. Broadcasts can be recorded, stored and thus memorized but reception can’t. Sounds transmitted over the air seem to vanish into the ears and minds of unknown listeners. There is no ground to dig in, no place to examine, no object to be grasped—just ideologies, misconceptions, and promises traversing the intangible landscape of the ether. The work evokes a space in which all the properties of sound and its reception become visible. A battlefield where the impulse to “extend the area of freedom” and persistent efforts to disturb that sense of mission crisscross. It contemplates how freedom comes into being by questioning its means and meanings.

The installation represents the last part of a trilogy preceded by the drawing series Wade in the Water (2010) and the video Disquieting Nature (2012). In her long-term project the German artist Christine Meisner confronts the ideological American landscape with its notion of liberty.

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