"Gaki" Chen Young-hoon April 2013, 4 - April 8, 2013
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2013, 4 (Monday) - April 8, 2013 (Friday)
9:00-18:30 (until 17:00 on the last day)
Exhibitor: Chen Young-hoon (2nd year, Graduate School of Art, Product Design)
I am a second-year graduate student majoring in product design at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. I came to Japan as an exchange student at Tsukuba University in September last year to experience Japanese culture and design. Living in a world where I am learning new words, culture, and rules for the first time reminds me of my time in kindergarten. As I return to Japan this spring, I will be exhibiting the works I created in Taiwan at the exhibition "Gaki." Please come and see them. Thank you.
T+review
"The culture and rules I encountered for the first time in Japan made me feel like I was back in kindergarten," the artist said in his greeting, and this sentiment is also reflected in the exhibition's title, "Gaki (Child)." Many of the works on display this time were made in Taiwan, and perhaps, as he spent time in a place with a different culture, he felt a desire to see how his works, which were born in Taiwan, would be received here.
A large portrait hanging in the center of the gallery shows a man, presumably the artist, standing straight towards the viewer with his mouth pursed, as if asking, "What do you think?"Despite differences in language and culture, the artist's thoughts are clearly conveyed to the viewer through the work.
All of the works on display, either in person or as images, were extremely flawless and carefully crafted. A smoothly carved cutting board. Spoons, forks, and knives made to fit perfectly with its gentle curves. A hypodermic needle whose tip can be fitted with a protective cap using just one hand. From these carefully crafted works, you can sense the process by which the artist refined the idea of "what I want to make." And the ideal image and the artist's creative ability are comfortably balanced to create highly finished objects.In addition, the ideas in the work exude a sense of kindness and playfulness, and I got the impression that the artist must be living her life by making full use of her own body movements and her imagination of the unconscious. (Okano Emiko)
