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DREAM IN A CONTEMPORARY SECRET GARDEN: MIXED MEDIA

  • Date:2009-06-01

April 9 - May 18, 2009
Curators: Luchia Meihua Lee, Howard Chen
Curators: Luchia Meihua Lee, Howard Chen
Artist interactive performance: April 8th, 6:00-9:00pm by Yang Chin Chih
Artist interactive performance: April 8th, 6:00-9:00pm by Yang Chin Chih
Artist interactive performance: April 8th, 6:00-9:00pm by Yang Chin Chih
Artists talk: Saturday, May 16th, 4:30pm-6:00pm
Press preview: Tuesday April 7th, 2009 2:00 - 4:00pm

The Chelsea Art Museum ? Home of the Miotte Foundation ? is pleased to present Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden: Mixed Media Works from 12 Asian Artists. In this exhibition, 12 artists present widely varying art works that address themes of Poetic Garden, Landscape in Motion, Wonderland, and Hidden Garden.

Garden is a common subject in art - both ancient and contemporary, both Eastern and Western. New York is a landscape that lies beyond nature. It is a city of secrets. To uncover its multicultural art is to discover the secret gardens of the city, and find the city's heart.

Treatment of gardens has evolved into a genre offering many facets of nature - plants, trees, flora and fauna - to the dreamer. Gardens change according to the season, the aspect of nature revealed, and human involvement. It is a landscape in motion, and a children's wonderland, where fairy tales start. Gardens in Asia are more exotic and erotic than their Western counterparts, and more frequently grounded in literary contexts. Poets, scholars, and literati meet in Asian gardens, and love stories bloom in the back garden. Of course, a secret garden in an imperial palace exhibits the most extreme instance of these characteristics, and the intersection of private and public life lends itself easily to passion, drama, and tragedy.

The exhibition was organized with the help of the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei National University of the Arts, First Federal Capital, Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York, and the Council for Cultural Affairs in Taiwan. These artists from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and New York use various media to express spiritual refreshment. The art relies on multiple perspectives to create a startling view of a landscape of the mind. Twelve other artists will be showing at the Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York, May 6-June 5, 2009.

Artists in this exhibition: CHIU Chao Tsai, Eun Young CHOI, Aihua HSIA, HUANG Po Chih, Kotaro FUKUI, Kay H. LIN, LIU Shih Tung, LU Chi Yun, Kaoruko NAKANO, SHYU Ruey Shiann, Chin Chih YANG, YAO Jui Chung.

Co-organizer:
Taipei National University of the Arts, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts

This exhibition made possible by:
First Federal Capital

For further Information, please contact: Ms. Luchia Lee
917.412.2831 (Curator) luchia_lee@yahoo.com

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