Art and culture take their root in land, people and society. They are from the power that comes within; thus this power enables art works to encompass a wide variety of cultural elements. Locality, dissimilarity, and diversity converge and leave their legacies to form the richness of cultural soil and this led to an artistic world which is all-embracing and visionary. This year, the 2010 Taiwan Biennial establishes itself on that fruitful achievement of its forerunner, branding itself with the theme “Yes, Taiwan,” to investigate the population consisting of art exhibitions and works in Taiwan since 2008 until now. With digging deeper into the population, the biennial brings forward 7 subtopics which illustrate Taiwan’s present art world. To build a field of heteroglossia, the exhibition adopts two ways to form its artistic content, Invitation and Open-call for Entries, expecting to sort out the diverse trends of contemporary visual art in Taiwan. The aims is to provide a platform of dialogue for Taiwanese and international artists. So Taiwan can see the world and the world to see Taiwan from fresh angles.
With no exception, art works in different eras reflect on their contemporary environment. Synchronicity is the motif of discourse in the second Taiwan Biennial. Selecting a specific slice of time (from 2008 onward), the exhibition provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the development of visual art in Taiwan. It explores the aesthetic trend of the Taiwanese art works in recent year in seven different aspects, including Local Breakthroughs, A New-style Visual Art Space: Connecting and Transforming, Variations on Image Art, Innovation in Oriental Materials, New Trends in Easel Paintings, Rethinking the Language of Installation, and Naïve Approaches to Art. Audience will see different artists’ reflection upon diversified issues ranging from art, society and environment, etc. And thus the exhibition is a testimony of the cultural agency in modern Taiwan and how it is expressed by the Taiwanese artists in the new era with their acute aesthetic soul, innovative artistic language and profound humanistic concerns.
In other words, 2010 Taiwan Biennial aims to undertake the forerunner’s pioneer spirit prevailing over the course of the art development in Taiwan. It traces the artistic development from traditional route to innovative attempts and keenly observes the diversified trends present in the contemporary art works in Taiwan. Those trends touch upon the sense of community, the aesthetic influence brought by new types of art space, innovation of traditional art materials, wider variety of the media used for easel painting, the transformation of photography and video media, the development of the language in installation and conceptual art and the new possibilities of naïve art. The infinity of cultural vitality is embodied in these works, and audience can see different cultural elements blend and affect each other.
Ocean whispers to Formosa, the beautiful island. Taiwan is an island with rich and diversified history. We are confident that it is because of art that we can come together while upholding the value of openness and diversity of our culture. And with this colorful cultural richness, we can confidently announce to the world --- Yes Taiwan!
參展藝術家 / 藝術團隊 ARTISTS + ART GROUPS
▇ 影像的變奏 VARIATIONS ON IMAGE ART：
蔡明亮 Ming-Liang TSAI
林泰州 Tay-Jou LIN
沈昭良 Chao-Liang SHEN
何孟娟 Isa HO
吳政璋 Cheng-Chang WU
侯淑姿 Shur-Tsy HOU
莫嘉賓+陳燕裕Jia-Bin MOU + Yen-Yu CHEN
郭英聲 Ying -Sheng QUO
劉肇興 Jaw-Shing Arthur LIOU
▇ 裝置語言的轉化 RETHINKING THE LANGUAGE OF INSTALLATION：
巫雲鳳 Wan-Fung MO
林慶芳 Tai-Fong LIN
涂維政 Wei-Cheng TU
許芳華 Fang-Hua HSU
陳珠櫻 Chu-Yin CHEN
游文富 Wen-Fu YU
湯皇珍 Huang-Chen TANG
黃心健 Hsin-Chien HUANG
▇ 架上繪畫的新流向 NEW TRENDS IN EASEL PAINTINGS：
李足新 Chu-Hsin LEE
周珠旺 Chu-Wang CHOU
張立曄 Li-Yeh CHANG
許銘仁 Ming-Jen HSU
曾雍甯 Yong-Ning TZENG
葉子奇 Tzu-Chi YEH
劉時棟 Shih-Tung LIU
謝鴻均 Hong-Juin SHIEH
魏欣如 Hsin-Ju WEI
羅展鵬 Chan-Peng LO
▇ 東方媒材的創新 INNOVATIONS IN ORIENTAL MATERIALS：
王怡然 Yi-Jan WANG
李義弘 Yi-Hong LEE
侯俊明 Chun-Ming HOU
袁旃 Jai YUAN
黃琬玲 Wan-ling HUANG
楊景堯 Chin-Yao YANG
▇ 地方突圍 LOCAL BREAKTHROUGHS：
吳瑪悧 Mali WU
許秀雲 Hsiu-Yun HSU
拓繪樂生工作小組 Lo-Sheng Frottage
▇ 新類型視覺藝術空間的聯結與轉進 A NEW-STYLE VISUAL ART SPACE：CONNECTING AND TRANSFORMING
台灣新藝當代藝術空間 Taiwan New Arts Union
非常廟藝文空間 VT Artsalon
▇ 樸素之質 NAÏVE APPROACHES TO ART：
周孟德 Meng-Te CHOU
拉黑子．達立夫Rahic.Talif
柳依蘭 Yi-Lan LIU
陳義郎 Yi- Lang CHEN
塗鴉客 Bbrother
