Ana Teresa Barboza will join La Bienal de Arte Textil this September in Chile

The upcoming La Bienal de Arte Textil (BAT), to be held in September in Chile, aims to celebrate the contemporary interpretation of traditional textile art through the works of Latin American artists, bringing forth fresh exhibitions and dialogues for this art form.
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Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza, known for her mixed-media tapestries, knitting, weavings, and embroidery, has exhibited at Nunu Fine Art Taipei in solo and group shows in past years. She will be heading to BAT this fall to showcase her unique works that explore the interconnectedness of humans and the ecological system.

Celebrated North-Irish Artist Rodney Dickson’s Works Collected by Hugh Lane Gallery

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Contemporary painter Rodney Dickson was born in Northern Ireland in 1956. Exploring the aftermath of wars in earlier works, Dickson was later known for his abstract paintings. Through repeated stacking and scraping of oil paints, he creates vivid and thick colors and textures, revealing strong emotions in the artworks. Recently, his two representative oil paintings, Kill 'em all and Let Buddah sort 'em out (2004-2007) and Number 6 (2009), were collected by Hugh Lane Gallery, a leading modern art museum in Ireland since its founding in 1908. The paintings are also on view at the "New Acquisitions" exhibition until August 30, 2023.

Indonesian Artist Ari Bayuaji’s Weaving the Ocean Exhibited at John F. Kennedy Center

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Weaving the Ocean, an ongoing creative project launched by Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji, has travelled to numerous locations worldwide and was invited to show at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the US as part of the famous RiverRun Art Festival from April 4 to 16. The project, started in 2020 and was exhibited at Nunu Fine Art Taipei in 2021, involves collaboration of the artist and local residents in Bali, Indonesia. They collect plastic waste along the coast, cleaning and processing it, weaving it into warm pieces of art. This project is not only environmentally sustainable but also established a resilient community during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Peruvian Artist Ana Teresa Barboza Participates in Poéticas del Espacio

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Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza recently participated in Poéticas del espacio, group exhibition curated by art historian Santiago Martínez. The exhibition includes works by five contemporary artists, exploring the poetics of space and investigating into sculpture and spatiality. It was held at the Los Arenales Cultural Center in Santander, Spain from March 7 to April 15. For a long time, Barboza has combined traditional weaving techniques of the indigenous in Peru in her artworks. Through elements inspired by natural environment, her textile artworks convey the message of sustainability while also being deeply poetic.

5 sculptures and one work on paper by Rona Pondick have entered the Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York

pigmented resin and acrylic，14.5 x 20 x 21.5 cm｜5.7 x 7.9 x 8.5 inches (Courtesy of the artist)

The artwork by American artist Rona Pondick has become a part of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art's collection in New York. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, located at Cornell University, was established in 1973. Since its inception, the museum has welcomed visitors free of charge. It continually strives to fulfill its cultural and educational responsibility by serving a broad and diverse audience.

Artist Maya Hewitt's Heartbeats Collected by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts

oil and acrylic on canvas，152.5 x 152.5 cm｜60 x 60 inches（Courtesy of the artist）

We pleased to announce the news that artist Maya Hewitt’s Heartbeats has been included in the permanent collection of the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. 

Maya Hewitt's paintings often possess a special atmosphere of tranquility and alienation. Time and space condense on the canvas with a scene between illusion and reality. She sets a unique balance between surrealism painting and urban realism, composing harmonious dream space with illogical objects.  

In Heartbeats, Hewitt appropriates Utagawa Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e painting Hodogaya Station and Shinkame Bridge as if a set stage. However, Hewitt uses different perspectives, creating an entrance to a space of another dimension. With similar color tones and a certain degree of flatness, the integration of the scene allows the three mothers in the painting to have a self-evident emotional connection with the remote city of Edo period. 

Mr. Lin’s Art Museum On The Move: Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza's Aquas Caliente at Chang Ching Nursing Home of Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Installation View of Ana Teresa Barboza's Aquas Caliente at Chang Ching Nursing Home (Courtesy of Chang Ching Nursing Home)

Over the years, “Mr. Lin's art museum on the move” collects contemporary art and donated them to medical and cultural institutions in Taiwan, so as to promote contemporary art and bring art into people’s lives. Through art and beauty, it wishes to improve the well-being of lives and the provide inner healings to people.

Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza has long combined different artistic media and techniques, paying attention to the environment in Peru and the relationship between human and nature. Her work Aguas Calientes (2021) is an interweaving of a photographic image taken in Peru and the tapestry made in indigenous Peruvian weaving techniques. The geological and hydrological textures in the photo are extended into woven fabrics. The colors, lines allow the visual and tactile qualities of the work to communicate and echo with each other.

Dutch Artist Kees Goudzwaard’s Solo Exhibition Opens at Collectie de Groen

Exhibition Space (Photo: Ivonne Zijp, courtesy of Collectie de Groen)

During his solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art in this autumn, the works of Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard were well-received among Taiwanese audience. His next solo exhibition will open at Collectie de Groen from Jan. 14 to Apr. 16.

Collectie de Groen is an important private collection in the Netherland, established by collectors and artists Marjolein de Groen and Peter Jordaan. In 2010, they decided to make art collection their mission and currently have hundreds of works in their collection. The collection is now housed in the historical building of a former-bank.

The exhibition includes works of various media such as silkscreen printing, risograph, and oil painting. The exhibition also encompasses earlier works such as Circle (1990) and new works such as Gaps and Dots (2022), showcasing the artistic sparkles and subtlety in Kees Goudzwaard’s artistic creation.

Works of Cuban Artists Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández on View at You Know Who You Are at El Espacio 23 in Miami, Florida.

Exhibition View of You Know Who You Are (Courtesy of El Espacio 23)

Cuban artists Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández’s several works of installation and mix-media paintings are currently exhibiting in You Know Who You Are: Recent Acquisitions of Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection. The exhibition is curated by Anelys Alvarez and Patricia Hanna, featuring works of over 100 artists acquired since 2017. The exhibition highlights works from many of Cuba’s most respected artists, exploring the collective cultural memories of Cuba through the personal journeys of each artist.

Among the exhibited works, Ariamna Contino’s La Ascención reflects on the issue of environmental pollution via her creative approach of data visualization, while Alex Hernández’s series of mix-media paintings reflects upon the history of Cuba through depictions of scenes of the destructing the statues of authoritarian leaders worldwide.

Petah Coyne’s Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird) Exhibited in You Know Who at Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion, Turkey

Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), 1997-98. (Photo: Wit McKay. Courtesy of the artist)

Renowned American artist Petah Coyne’s Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), is currently shown in You Know Who, an exhibition curated by Selen Ansen and Brigitte Pitarakis at the Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition showcases works of over 45 artists and explores the connection between Byzantium and the contemporary art through the theme of supernatural and their effects on human emotions, behaviors, and artistic production.

Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), created in 1997-98, is an example of the hair and taxidermy works Coyne made in the late 1990s that explore a dark fantasy world populated by animals. Tangled in web of woven black hair, the once recognizable silhouettes of the taxidermied birds have been reimagined as a fantastic, amalgamated creature, whose web, reminiscent of black Irish lace and dust bunnies, crawls out toward viewers

Petah Coyne is scheduled to have her new solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, in May 2023.

Rona Pondick’s Monkeys and Head in Tree on View at Belvedere Museum

Rona Pondick, detail from Monkeys, 1998-2001, Stainless steel, Edition of 6 + 1 AP, 41 1/4 x 66 x 85 1/2 in (104.77 x 167.64 x 217.17 cm)

Rona Pondick, detail from Head in Tree, 2006-08, Stainless steel, Edition of 3 + 1 AP, 105 x 42 x 37 in (266.7 x 106.68 x 93.98 cm)

Installation view of Head in Tree

Installation view of Monkeys

American artist Rona Pondick’s metal sculptural work Monkeys was on display in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere since September. Monkeys, created during 1998-2001, shows several monkeys playing around, while some body parts appear in human forms. The hybrid form of human and monkey reveals suffering among playfulness, demonstrating the artist’s artistic style during this creative period.

In the meantime, Rona Pondick’s Head in Tree is also included in the exhibition Grow: The Tree in Art at the Lower Belvedere. The exhibition is curated by art historian and curator Miroslav Haľák, focusing artworks related to trees to demonstrate the complex connection between human beings and the ecology as well as the various roles trees play in it. Pondick’s Head in Tree, created during 2006-2008, combines the tree form and a human head cast from the artist’s own. It responds to the human-tree hybrid form in art and mythologies, and the complicated relationship between human subjects and flora and fauna in the natural world.

On the exhibition opening on Sept. 22, over 600 VIP guests gathered in the Marble Hall where Pondick’s Head in Tree was on display, enjoying the artist’s artistic creation.

Photo: Johannes Stoll

Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides Series on View at Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders

Installation view of Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides series (Courtesy of the artist)

Renowned German contemporary artist Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides series is currently on view in the exhibition, Bibliomania: The Book in the Art, at Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Germany. The exhibition incorporates artworks of multiple forms and media such as painting, drawing, photography, film, installation, and artist’s book, exploring the importance of the paper-based medium of “book” in this age of digital media, as well as rethinking and recreating the role “book” plays in contemporary societies.

 The Travel Guides series marks the beginning of Zimmermann’s use of epoxy. Graduated from art school and started creating conceptual art in the 1980s, Zimmermann imitates and enlarges book covers to challenge the interaction between one’s perceptions and feelings, including one’s experience of interpreting these paradoxical artworks. This series also became the first milestone in Peter Zimmermann’s career as a professional artist.

Franziska Fennert’s project, Monumen Antroposen, expected to finish on December 2022.

Left: Computer simulation of Monumen Antroposen (Courtesy of the artist); Right: Group photo of Franziska Fennert’s team and visitors from German Embassy of Indonesia at the site of Monumen Antroposen (Courtesy of the artist)

Artist Franziska Fennert’s project, Monumen Antroposen, is expected to finish on December 2022. Funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Monumen Antroposen is a project directed by artist Franziska Fennert and accompanied by artist Iwan Wijono, curator Ignatia Nilu, and architect Dhoni Yudhanto. The project aims to construct an enormous architectural complex which takes up to 6000m2 public land 100 meters away from the main dump site of the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia with discarded low-value plastic pressed into stones. According to Fennert, the project attempts to create a circular system for especially plastics and used material in general, and becomes a center for makers, artists and changes to the society.

Rona Pondick’s “Wallaby” and “Cat” on View at Nassau County Museum of Art

Rona Pondick 作品〈小袋鼠〉（Wallaby）、〈貓〉（Cat）於拿騷美術館展出（照片由藝術家提供）

Leading American contemporary artist Rona Pondick, is scheduled to have her sculpture works exhibited at four major art institutions across the US and Europe in the latter half of 2022. The first exhibition will be “Other Worlds Than This: The Supernatural” in Art at the Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, in which her two sculptural works “Wallaby” and “Cat” joins a number of artworks related to the otherworldly possibilities. The artist is also giving a talk on her artistic career since the mid-1980s.

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 Roma 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.