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April 9 - May 18, 2009
Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden:
Mixed Media Works from 12 Asian Artists
Curated by Luchia Meihua Lee and Howard Chen
The Chelsea Art Museum – Home of the Miotte Foundation – is pleased to present Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden. The Garden is a common subject in art - both ancient and contemporary, Eastern and Western. New York is a landscape that lies beyond nature, a city of secrets. To uncover its multicultural art is to discover the secret gardens of the city, and find the city’s heart.
Treatment of gardens has evolved into a genre offering many facets of nature - plants, trees, flora and fauna - to the dreamer. Gardens change according to the season, the aspect of nature revealed, and human involvement. It is a landscape in motion, and a children’s wonderland, where fairy tales start. Gardens in Asia are more exotic and erotic than their Western counterparts, and more frequently grounded in literary contexts. Poets, scholars, and literati meet in Asian gardens, and love stories bloomr in the back garden. Of course, a secret garden in an imperial palace exhibits the most extreme instance of these characteristics, and the intersection of private and public life lends itself easily to passion, drama, and tragedy.
In this exhibition, twelve contemporary Asian artists from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and New York use various media to express spiritual refreshment. The art relies on multiple perspectives to create a startling view of a landscape of the mind.
The works are divided into four categories: Poetic Garden, Landscape in Motion, Wonderland, and Hidden Garden.
Artists in the exhibition: Eun Young CHOI, Aihua HSIA, HUANG Bo Chih, Kotaro FUKUI, Kay LIN, LIU Shih Tung, Jiha MOON, Kaoruko NAKANO, SHYU Ruey Shiann, LU, Chi Yun, YANG Chin Chih, YAO Jui Chung
The exhibition made possible by:
Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan
Taipei Cultural Center, TECO in New York
First Federal Capital
Taipei National University of The Arts, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Chelsea Art Museum
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