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MWOODS Art Museum

Ann Veronica James: “Pink Yellow Blue”

This research-based exhibition encompasses twelve key immersive installations, sculptures and images from the artist's career. It is also the second time that Moki Art Museum presents a solo exhibition of a female artist to a domestic audience, following the solo exhibition of Irish artist Genieve Figgis.

The main exhibition hall on the first floor, Fog House, Pink and Blue, the second floor, Swing Hall, and Red 106 Blue 132 in the South Hall invite the audience to actively enter and participate in the sculpture and installation space activated by the audience's intervention, and the ever-moving vista suggests the flow of color, light, and time in the space. Based on the Op Art of the 1950s and 1960s, which can be regarded as the highlight of the development process of dynamic color and light art, Ann Veronica's works fully discuss the body and sensory perceptions, and present the wonderful sensory experience brought by the phenomenon of physics to human beings through interdisciplinary practice. There is little mysterious science and technology here, but more continuous exploration and repeated experiments on natural phenomena.

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Macalline Art Center

Hu Wei and Yuan Zhongtian Dual Solo Exhibition

Hu Wei: Bait

Bait” is the first institutional solo exhibition of Hu Wei, a staged review of his recent works in the form of three videos, installations, and sculptures, and the first presentation of his newest three-channel video work, ‘Ground Sounding Gravel’ (2023), supported by Macalline Art Center.

The title of the exhibition, “Bait”, alludes to the attraction that Hu Wei unleashes in his creations, whether it be history, poetic narrative, camera aesthetics, or the action of research itself, but “bait” also points to the intoxication that lies beneath the disguise. In recent years, Hu Wei has roamed through different geographical and contemporary contexts, trying to capture the human spirit and body under the intricate web of society and history. Through linguistic, narrative, and media translation, he touches specific people, who are sometimes trapped in the net and sometimes escape from it. Hu Wei's interest in “muted history” is not only a simple concern of modern man for history, but also a revelation of the tensions implied by this intention.

Yuan Zhongtian: No Door, No Window, Only Light

This is the first solo exhibition of artist Chris Zhongtian Yuan in China. It is a staged review of his recent creations in the form of four video works, some installations and drawings, and presents for the first time the video work “No Door, No Window, Only Light”, which has been newly commissioned by Macalline Art Center.

Yuan Zhongtian participates in the medium of video in an architectural way and tries to create a new video language. Their works often focus on marginalized groups who are forgotten or confused in collective history, rapid growth or grand narratives. In these works, home and separation/exile are always contradictory concepts, and the artists also try to trace various forms of life, emotions and weak signals caught between old and new technologies in the space of opposition and absence.

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Tokyo Gallery + BTAP

Sound of Empty Valley

This exhibition will feature more than 30 works by Zhu Jianzhong and Sugiyama Gong. Zhu Jianzhong tends to isolate a tree, a person, or leave a blank space in a silent and faraway world. It is as if the worldview originated from traditional Chinese Taoism: asking why man? Why God? Kung Sugiyama's creations are mainly composed of marble and wood materials. He contrasts the slowly weathering stone with the rapidly decaying and fading wood to express the different meanings of time on matter, while at the same time finding a reconciliation between the opposites. In this way, the author aims to reveal the relationship between nature and civilization. It also implies the author's devotional belief in nature and the gods.

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Asian Art Center

Chen Wenji - Ma Shuqing

Chen Wenji's paintings always maintain an abstract detachment from reality. He creates a unique three-dimensional and three-dimensional space with gradations on aluminum composite panels, canvas and paper. Chen Wenji's thinking about painting has a rational rigor and hidden order. Ma Shuqing continues to experiment with different ways of applying color, seeking to convey information about time and space and different ways of expression and spatial viewing experience in his works. Color is the visual carrier for artist Ma Shuqing to elaborate the concept of time and space in his paintings, and in the process of painting, he removes the artificial emotions, moods, and various symbolic meanings that have been assigned to the colors, so that the colors can return to neutrality and become visible again.

This exhibition presents the latest creations of the two artists, Chen Wenji and Ma Shuqing, who continue to expand the origin of painting creation, constructing space with color variations, deducing and presenting the same extremes with different painting logics, and initiating a dialogue between the two.

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New Oxygen Art O2Art

Summer Night

In the exhibition, the sense of smell in O2Art's work comes first. In Condillac's theory of faculties, smell is considered the first sense in the gradual formation of human cognition; after smell, each sense is added one by one, and memory, imagination, desire, will, and even subjectivity gradually take shape in the collision between the senses and the outside. Thus, in the exhibition, one can see the extreme expression of optical illusion in Yun Yongye's works, as well as the shimmering light of simple everyday objects in Liu Dongxu's works, while Hou Weiguo, Chen Duoxi, Wang Weiwei, and Shi Xinji extend their own expression in the field of “nature”. Cognition takes shape on top of the expanding senses, lengthening and extending the sleepy, silent summer night. By stirring up the tired and closed senses with the throbbing murmur of nature, we find a moment of purity for contemplation in the current era of industrialization.