Duration: 2019.05.25-08.08
Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11:00-19:00

Gallery Sun presents a group exhibition, ItaliaNove – L’arte italiana a Taiwan.

Italy has long been, since antiquity, the centre of history, culture and art. The founder of the gallery, Sunny H. Chou has taken up this time the role of curators and invited nine important contemporary artists both in Italy and Taiwan assembly exhibited in Taipei and Kaohsiung at the same time.

The exhibition aims at presenting the rich prosperity of the Italian culture, throughout the three generations of artists, many of them have been invited to participate in the Venice Biennale.

We are very pleased to welcome you to join us and to share with us your different perspectives of art.

Thanks to the greatest support of ALIEN Art Centre, we, Gallery Sun, presents the Italian artist – Robert Pan’s first Solo Exhibition in Kaohsiung : The Way of Seeing.

Duration | 2019.05.01-08.31

Kaohsiung。ALIEN Art Centre

Kaohsiung Location | ALIEN ART CENTRE Room101

Address | No.111, Gushan 1st Rd., Gushan Dist., Kaohsiung City 804, Taiwan

Opening Hours | Wednesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00

Contact |T：+886-7-972 1685

「The Way of Seeing」– Robert Pan

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it… By reference to an episode from a well-known literature Ways of seeing written by John Berger (1972), it is pointed that the relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.

Robert Pan was born in 1969 in Bolzano, Italy. An ancient town, Bolzano has experienced occupation since the Middle Ages by the Romans, the Lombards, Germans and Italians. Today, Bolzano is a commercial city with various religions. Its population consists of German, Italian and Latin language speakers. Robert Pan’s work is never a reflection of his internal rational thinking but a result of creating impossible-to-predict visual effects by way of his self-developed materials and semi-automatic techniques. The visual effects that cannot be predicted have somehow served as a rational reflection of the external world.

The mixed media series in Robert Pan’s early works, e.g., PASQUA/EASTER/OSTERN (EASTER, 1990/91), COLLOQUIO III (DIALOGUE, 1993), and TAVOLO ROSSO (A MEAL OF RED GRAPES, 1997/2000), feature an accumulation of religious symbols, faces and sight memories. His AKASHA series (2000-2005) encompasses extraction of color expression and calligraphic symbols and textures. Over the past decade, Pan’s work contains an embodiment of planets and numerology at its core. A look at the artist’s progress for the past decade raises the question as to whether these works conceptualized before us will serve as a reminder of the issues in today’s civilization development, while they do propose a perspective that transcends the boundaries between ethnics, regions, religions and ideals. The process of seeing is not limited to one-sided reception or an isolated and restrictive definition, but instead, should stimulate a dialogue between both parties. Such qualities can be seen in Robert Pan’s work.

This exhibition is conceptualized over “The Way of Seeing”. We are grateful to the artist, Robert Pan, and his discussion with Ms. Sunny as the cornerstone for the exhibition. Gratitude is also extended to the team consisting of Wolfgang Hass, Roman Pachernegg, Wolfgang Scheikl and Helmut Feier for the documentary production and authorization.

Today, we still remember Robert Pan：“I don’t believe in inspiration. I would describe it as a discipline. A continuous discipline, starting from 8 o’clock at the morning, like any other work… I work with resin; it is a very noble material. It is the end product of the petroleum… always materials that come from the ground. I believe I am a grounded, earthy person… the picture lives by itself, and it does not need the artist. What makes me happy, is being like when I was a child, and seeing something without knowing how it comes about. La meraviglia, the amazement. ”

(The article is edited from Alien Art Centre, “The Way of Seeing”)

https://www.alien.com.tw/websev?lang=zh-tw&ref=pages&id=47

1/4 Sat. – 3/17 Sun.

Opening Time 10:00-18:00

VIP Party – Meet the artist，Richard Hassell  1/28 Mon. 15:00-17:00

Emergent Nets and Strange Creatures

This exhibition showcases the latest works of two ongoing series of works by Singapore-based, Australian artist Richard Hassell. Both series are based on complex geometries only discovered in the last few decades. The works combine digital design and research with handwork and traditional materials of pigments, gold leaf and washi paper.

Emergent Nets: Optical Sutras is a series of artworks on paper and metal of geometric constructions. The title of the series and exhibition combines two concepts – Emergence, and Sutras.

Emergence is a property of complex systems, where the whole has properties its parts do not have. Life is an emergent property of chemistry. The Sanskrit word Sūtra means “string or thread”. In Buddhist philosophy a sūtra weaves knowledge, threadlike, around and into a few simple words or syllables.

These artworks similarly, are composed by following short geometric rules that weave together to create an optical effect. The result is a complex net which possesses surprising, variable and beautiful effects at particular distances from the work.

The Emergent Net series are not only perceptual artworks, exploring visual phenomena, they also inspire philosophical contemplation. The winding paths, hidden patterns, and ordered complexity prompt musings on the nature of the cosmos and our challenge to see it clearly.

Strange Creatures: Complex Tessellations are a series of works which continue the project of the 20th century Dutch artist M.C. Escher into the strange 21st century world of aperiodic and fractal tilings. The strange creatures – frogs, lizards, fish, and others – fit perfectly together in complex configurations of patterns of patterns. Seemingly simple, they embody complex systems in the shape of their bodies. Like a jigsaw with infinite solutions, the creatures wind their way across their paper world, obeying the particular laws of their parallel universes. Many of the works are embellished with gold leaf, as a collaboration with Indonesian textile master Baron Manangsang, using traditional techniques from Central Java. Playful and intriguing, these pieces delight the eye and the brain.

Together, the two series share Richard Hassell’s discoveries about the strange beauty of the geometric structure of our world.

展期:01.04.-03.31

開放時間:09:00-21:00

念念台灣─關於島嶼的視覺

處在這座大洋中的南方島嶼，尋找一種私密的「永恆」視覺，好像島嶼在每個人心中念之在茲的存在感。

有關色彩的─

島嶼─「它」遍處瀰漫著神秘的幻影，在我瞳孔矇上一層奇特淳厚又樸質的光暈，如果懷著回憶和想像、一種對它的耽溺如愛情般的眼神，就在我畫布上染成歲月精煉研磨的私房色彩。

有關筆觸的─

島嶼─「它」還有一身獨有的質素，用手和身體磨蹭不到的，有如遠看一座山、一汪海洋、一蓊森林；這質素原來只能用視覺上的「觸動」，此番魔力傳達到畫筆，捺擦出渾厚的肌理。

島嶼的自然造物瀝經時光的滔洗，歷史的鎏金，為我訴說「它」在我心頭念之在茲的存在感，孤獨私密的永恆。

Exhibition Date :01.12 Sat..-03.03 Sun.

Opening Reception:11.12 Sat. 15:00-17:00

The contemporary ink artist Huang I-ming, with his “linear abstraction” performance which was derived from a thorough comprehension of the inscriptions of the stone steles “bei” and the writings on finer materials, “tie”, has received international interest from the art scenes of New York, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei following his Exhibition at the Suzhou Museum.

From its black-and-white relationship, it speaks of vigorousness, beauty and elegance. These works cover a large span, ranging from their firm masculinity and raw magnanimity to modesty, delicacy, translucence, thus producing a special cultural characteristic. This capability comes from his sharp aesthetic, as well as his comprehension of the yin and yang of the “bei” and “tie”, and the life he sees around him. Through his giant brush, he reveals his soul deep within, an awakening and emergence of his inner strength, using slow strokes to sketch out the landscape of a winding dream. Together with his ink and wash, which depicts the warmth and quietness of the richness of humanity, he always shows his deep side with simple brushstrokes, which makes people think and become fascinated.

Gallery Sun will bring in the New Year with the “Resplendence” series in 2019, revealing the brilliance of the sun from the golden dazzling flowers, and allowing people to fall in love in a dreamy Prussian blue sentimental ambience. Some of the smaller artworks display either blossoms blooming or twigs climbing, flirtatious and charming, always amicable and dependable, contemplative and unforgettable. These works differ from his previous black-and-white series, with each color adopting a delicateness of “5 different shades of ink” technique, both refined and gentle. It is neither a traditional Chinese realistic painting characterized by fine brushwork nor a complete abstraction.

From calligraphy to ink painting, from ink to life, the artist’s brush strokes describe the reminiscences and the expectations of the heart. A fresh inspiration is awaiting your discovery!

Legacy Lab International-Water City

Date：2018.11.22-2018.12.31
VIP Preview：2018.11.22 Thur. 16:30-19:30
Opening：2018.11.23 Fri. 17:00-21:00
Artist Talk：2018.12.08 Sat. 15:00-17:00

Brief Description of Solo Exhibition “Water City”

Flowing colour segments intertwine with each other within a complex network constructed by structured layers. The architectural form serves as a metaphor for the foundation of modern civilisation. The dynamics of the fluid represents its underlying energy that is a driving source to keep a society lively. Legacy Lab International utilises its own fluid dynamics aesthetics and custom-built digital control technology to create segments of flowing colours in transparent tubes. The three-dimensional structure transforms each work into a micro-architecture that yields a different view from each different angle.

The exhibition “Emergent Nets: Optical Sutras” comprises a three types of artworks, works on paper, works on aluminium, and textile pieces. The pieces all share a common structure in being based on geometries which have been discovered in the late 20th century and early 21st century, including many discovered by the artist is the course of this artistic/ geometric research. The title of the series and exhibition combines two concepts – Emergence, and Sutras.

In philosophy and systems theory, Emergence occurs when “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,” meaning the whole has properties its parts do not have. These properties come about because of interactions among the parts. Emergence plays a central role in theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. For instance, the phenomenon of life as studied in biology is an emergent property of chemistry.

The Sanskrit word Sūtra means “string or thread”. The root of the word is siv, that which sews and holds things together and is related to sūnā meaning “woven”. In literature, sūtra means a distilled collection of syllables and words, an aphorism, rule or direction, hanging together like threads with which the teachings of ritual, philosophy, grammar, or any field of knowledge can be woven.

These artworks similarly, are composed by following short geometric rules that weave together to create an optical effect, to make a “kasina” – a Buddhist term for a visual object of meditation. The result is a complex net, path or structure, which has emerged by following a series of rules or procedures, and which possess variable beautiful effects which are revealed only at particular distances from the work. The details appear to be important, but they exist only to embody the system. The closer you get, the less meaning there is, while the further away you stand, the easier it is to comprehend.

The Emergent Net series are not only perceptual art, exploring visual phenomena, they are also intended to inspire philosophical contemplation. The winding paths, hidden patterns, and ordered complexity prompt musings on the nature of the cosmos and our challenge to see it clearly.