Tainan City’s Anding District Office was home to a stairwell gallery that featured Tainan’s own grassroots painter Cai Rui-yuan, local Tainan painter Xu Guo-zhan, and an aboriginal painter from Hualien named Chen De-ming. Together the three artists planned Origins, Clear, Display—Beginning, Understanding, Exhibiting, which had 37 works of art that ranged from oil paintings and paintings done on wickerwork to paintings made with rather unusual materials. The exhibition ran from March 22-April 29.
Anding District Chief Liu Shih-Hsiung expressed that he felt grateful that the district had the privilege of bringing together three talented painters that co-created a joint exhibition, which displayed Cai Rui-yuan’s oil paintings, Chen De-ming’s pastels and sketches, and Xu Guo-zhan’s extremely creative artwork. These artists gave the stairwell gallery a type of one-of-a-kind artistic ambiance, and he hopes that the district office and these three brilliant artists will be able to collaborate again in the future.
This exhibition’s art pieces include a total of 37 paintings done on a diverse amount of mediums: Cai Rui-yuan’s oil paintings vividly portray the life of farming families and serve as a fitting record of grassroots culture. As for Chen De-ming, his sketches of people are powerful, and on traditional bamboo wickerwork he has painted stunning totems. Xu Guo-zhan uses a variety of atypical materials, such as undershirts, and some of his work combines digital art with real plants. Xu’s art pieces present the imagery of what’s known as the philosophy of self, and viewers end up stopping in their tracks when they come upon it, as they’re enthralled by what they’re seeing.
Origins, Clear, Display—Beginning, Understanding, Exhibiting, which was held from March 22 to April 29 and open Monday-Friday 8:00am-noon and 1:00-5:00pm, welcomed all art enthusiasts to come to the exhibition.
Contact: Zeng Yi-jing, Anding District Office, General Affairs Section; Phone: 5921116 ext. 253