Marks and Sparks: Drawings and Words by Brad Darcy Arrives in Taiwan for the First Time

布萊德．達西手工版畫書《標記與星火》封面、內頁照（照片由藝術家提供）

Marks and Sparks: Drawings and Words by Brad Darcy is an artist book created by American artist Brad Darcy. The book is limited to 50 editions, with the cover painted by the artist. The book includes a selection of 76 drawings created between 2017-2020, each of them created under 60 seconds. Different from his first artist book published 5 years ago, Marks and Sparks also has 26 short poems that mark the sparks Brad Darcy sees in his artistic career, demonstrating the unique literary sensitivity of the artist.

June 9th to Sept. 9th, Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández exhibition at W Glass Project Space, Hsinchu

The Conceptual artist, Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández represented Cuba in Venice Biennial uses their excellent paper-cutting technique and white paper to reflects issues regarding to environment, war, and drugs. Although the works look purely white, they suggest the strong social engagement of the artist. In creating a hypothetical dialogue between the artist and Mother Nature, artists seem to bridge the highly conceptual politics of the creative process with the ethical considerations of our exceedingly literal environment. They give a voice to the once silent earth, questioning the morality of draining its reservoir of resources in the artist's quest to enlighten society and enrich its culture. From June. 9th to Sept. 9th, Nunu Fine Art collaborates with W Glass Project Space to bring the series of works by Contino and Hernandez to Hsinchu.

American artist Rona Pondick will exhibit in five major art institutions in the second half of the 2022

American leading artist Rona Pondick will exhibits her early works "Monkeys", "Head in Tree" in Lower Belvedere and Upper Belvedere, two of the most privilege art space in Austria. The work "Wallaby" will be in "The Supernatural in Art" group exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. From July 23 to November 6th, 2022. Pondick's recent development "Color Sculptures" has been drawing enormous attention in the contemporary scene. Both Zuckerman Museum of Art in Georgia and Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY will include her color sculptures in both museums exhibitions.

Ari Bayuaji “ Weaving the Ocean” at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. 5th July - 26 August 2022

Born in 1975 in Indonesia, Ari Bayuaji currently lives and creates in Montreal and Bali. The “Weaving the Ocean” project put environmental sustainability into practice, Bayuaji hired local residents as his assistants, to help the people in Bali who are severely impacted by the pandemic. This inspiring and touching project has conceived peaceful and heart-warming works, which captured the seascape of Bali. This project will be opened on July 5th at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore after the exhibited in Taipei, Bangkok and Montreal.

Northern European artist Siri Kollandsrud joins the group show “to– en ny era” at Dunkers, Sweden

Siri Kollandsrud joins the group show “to – en ny era” at Dunkers in Sweden. The exhibition is to explore the rebirth era after the pandemic and survey how human culture and art have been impacted. Kollandsrud's creative inspiration originatles from the observation of life visually and spiritually, while using her boundless vision to navigate the new world. Her works in this group show define the new era of human life.

American sculptor Rona Pondick’s interview with the magazine ODDA

Rona Pondick is a well-known American sculptor, and the topic of her works revolves around her personal experience of physical imprisonment and freedom of mind. She is known for her hybridized, metaphorical, and shifing approaches to the human body. During the conversation with the famous magazine ODDA, Pondick shares her intenpreiation of time and reficcts on varied aspects of human nature, explaining her view on our world being.

Peruvian Artist Ana Barboza attends the 23rd Biennale of Sydney themed “rivus”

Ana Barboza and Rafael Freyre present “Water Ecosystem” at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, exploring the relation of contemporary habitat and natural environments through a practice that combines architecture, visual art, and weaving. The installation “Water Ecosystem” celebrates the symbolic role of water in Peru's diverse wetland ecosystems and cultural heritage. Ana Barboza and Rafael Freyre take inspiration from ancient canal systems created by pre-Colombian societies. The multisensory installation combines natural elements with traditional and contemporary technologies. Visitors are invited to walk through the wetland to experience this water ecosystem.

Ana Teresa Barboza Join the 15th Cuenca Biennial

Ana Teresa Barboza is going to participate in the 15th Cuenca Biennial. This year, the biennial revolves around three axes: ancestral and traditional knowledge, critical ecofeminism or ecofeminisms and futuristic scenarios, searching for the solution of the ecosocial crisis, and achieve another possible world from a different perspective. Ana Teresa Barboza will join the other participating artists to present their works with environmental elements, showing their care for the carth and the constantly evolving organic process of the human being.

Petah Coyne Added to Collection of “National Academy of Design”

Petah Coyme's early black sand sculpture “Untiled #697” (1991) is now part of the Naional Academy of Design's pemanent collection. Founded in NewYork City in 1825 by renowned artists Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, and others. lt aims to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition. To date the National Academy of Design had elected 8,000 works from talented artists, including Petah Coymes “Untitled #697”, which presents beauty and fragile imagery alluding to death and decay.

Rona Pondick Added to Collection of “Walker Art Center”

“Wallaby” had recently been collected by Walker Art Center, one of the most-visited modem and contemporary art muscums in the United States. Walker Art Center is once lumber baron T. B. Walker's private collecti tion. Since he invited the public to visit his collection in 1879, it evolved into the Walker Art Center. This work will be joining other works by top artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Yoko Ono, and Kara Walker in this collection.

Ana Teresa Barboza: Rimac Seguros Collection

Congratulations to Ana Teresa Barboza’s work “Historias del Rímac”, to be collected by Rímac Seguros, the oldest insurance company in Peru. In “Historias del Rímac”, Barboza re-weaves the territories, presenting how water articulates the soils we inhabit. In this work, the artist uses natural yarns and local plants as dyes from the Andes of Cuzco and Lambayeque. Through integrating materials from regions and communities, Barboza interweaves the power between the artist and territories. 

Mr. Lin’s Mobile Museum: Artwork × Health Facility

In the project “Mr. Lin's Mobile Museum: Artwork × Health Facility,” through our assistant, artworks are donated to hospitals in Taiwan by our collector. Recently, we have finally completed the third donation of this project. Jui Chien Hsu’s work “Ten Folds×2” has been donated to Changhua Christian Hospital. Now sitting in Changhua Christian Hospital, “Ten Folds×2” gives off an atmosphere of healing, bringing warmth to the people suffering from illness.

Hsu Che-Yu: Hong Kong M+ Museum Collection

Focusing on the world’s foremost collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture, M+ Museum will be opened this November. M+ has been collecting works from artists, designers, and architects since 2012. Though rooted in Asia, its collection examines from a global perspective and aims to discover and record diverse contemporary cultures and techniques. Recently, M+ has included Taiwanese artist Hsu Che-Yu's “Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun” into its collection. Inspired by writer Huang Guo-Jun’s work Microphone Test, awards-winning artist Hsu Che-Yu uses fiction in place of reality to discuss death and collective memories in this work. 

Kao Ya-Ting Features at Chiayi Art Museum

Chiayi Art Museum’s current exhibition “A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest” is curated by Tsai, Ming-Chun, and Chen, Hsiang-Wen, aims to look back at the history and discuss the relationship between forests and cities. Chen, Hsiang-Wen said, “We can see how artists see the forest industry, for example, through their thought of how a log becomes a timber or issues regarding deforestation in Taiwan.” Featured in this exhibition, Kao Ya-Ting had used the renowned sea of clouds in Alishan as the theme and utilized various image materials for “Sea of Clouds in Alishan.” Through the process of repainting oil on canvas and collaging the image of the sea of clouds, Kao used her restrained contours and colors to create the sea of clouds in her eyes and the cultural context contained in the forest.

Environmental sustainability project of artists-"Weaving The Ocean" by Ari Bayuaji

This 6-minute short clip elaborates how artivism brings the community together.

Living and creating in Montreal, Canada, Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji accidentally discovered a large number of plastic ropes tangled in the roots of mangroves near the coast in Sanur, Bali. Thus, he developed “Weaving the Ocean” project, weaving plastic rubbish into art with local residents in Bali.

Besides putting environmental sustainability into practice, Ari employed local residents as his assistants, to help the people in Bali who are severely impacted by the pandemic. The works created in the project “Weaving the Ocean,” the colors are the original colors of the plastic threads. Regardless of the limited color choice, Ari composed settle and gentle color tone in these abstract works.

Through the "Weaving the Ocean” project, step by step, Ari leads the people in Bali to use the substantial power of art to change this town. “I have been sending messages to fellow Balinese about what we can do when business from tourism is no longer available. The answer is to be found in nature,” said Ari Bayuaji.

Congrats to Jui-Chien Hsu for exhibiting at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taiwan

 Photo credit ： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art 

 Photo credit 圖片來源： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art  毓繡美術館

 Photo credit 圖片來源： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art  毓繡美術館

 Photo credit 圖片來源： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art  毓繡美術館

Taiwanese artist Jui-Chien Hsu’s works are currently presented at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art group exhibition “The Poetic Realm,” which “poetic” indicates the way of perceiving the world, and the process of dealing with things by its flexibility. In Jui-Chien Hsu’s featured works, the artist transforms and conducts approachable materials, in search of the focus and release of the energy generated by these materials and body movements, inquiring about the relationship of the substance and action.

Hsu Che-Yu Will Participate In the 34th Bienal de São Paulo

34th Bienal de São Paulo

Taiwanese artist Hsu Che-Yu’s prize winning work “Single Copy” is going to be on view in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo “Faz Escuro mas eu canto” (“Though it’s dark, still I sing”).

The 2021 Bienal de São Paulo is titled “Though it’s dark, still I sing,” a reference to a 1965 poem by Thiago de Mello, and was conceived prior to the onset of the pandemic, aiming to inquire what art can do in this challenging time.

In Hsu Che-Yu’s work “Single copy,” the artist interprets the conjoined twins separation surgery experienced by two Taiwanese brothers Chang Chung-jen and Chang Chung-i, intertwining the individual memories and the collective memories of the political relationship of Taiwan and China at that time. This work will be shown along with works by other 90 artists, reflecting what forms of art and ways of being in the world are possible and necessary now.

Kees Goudzwaard at Club Solo

In this clip, Kees Goudzwaard’s works presented at Club Solo and his creating process are revealed.

“The power of Goudzwaard's work lies not in what he paints, but precisely in what he leaves out. It is about what takes place between the lines, in the white of the page.” Art historian Linda Köke mentioned this in her review “Poetic Emptiness.” Goudzwaard collages simple, unsightly fragments to compose. By replacing papers with oil paints, Goudzwaard captures the temporariness lying between the blank in his paints.

Credits: Joep de Boer, i.s.m. Raquel Vermunt (productie) en Richard Guenne (sound)

Petah Coyne at "Womanology. José Ramón Prieto Collection", The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Petah Coyne “Untitled #959 (1999-2000)” in Spain at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum'

See Petah Coyne's Untitled #959 (1999-2000) in Spain at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum's new exhibition Womanology which highlights works from the private collection of José Ramón Prieto.

In this exhibition, the curators have chosen works by women artists— of which there are many in Prieto's collection. Womanology showcases 43 works from 35 different artists working in a variety of media and touches upon various art historical movements and various female perspectives. Untitled #959 is a pristine white plaster sculpture, with plaster being a media Coyne worked most heavily with in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Congrats to Ana Teresa Barboza for joining Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala!

Ana Teresa Barboza at Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala

Ana Teresa Barboza at Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala

Ana Teresa Barboza at Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala

Our current exhibiting artist Ana Teresa Barboza is on the go! Right now, She is preparing for the opening of the 22nd Biennial de Arte Paiz, which will take place in Guatemala City and Antigua Guatemala.

Titled “Lost. In Between. Together”, the biennial invites artists and visitors to reflect on the environmental sustainability that affects the Global South. Through the works, the artists take a close look at their root and present, discovering the connection between art and environment. Creating with multiple materials, Ana Teresa Barboza will present her latest textile work, which contains the knowledge of nature and local culture, to discuss sustainability on earth.