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Capturing the Moment in the Nick of Time Performances Last 60 Minutes S T Y L E 生活時尚 15 TAIPEI TIMES • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 EXHIBITIONS Shen Chao-liang, Stage 1 (2008). PHOTO COURTESY OF AKI GALLERY Celebrated for his 2005 photo series of whale sharks being slaughtered at a fishing port in Yilan County, Shen Chao-liang (沈昭良) takes his camera on to dry land with Stage: Illusion Reality (幻影現實), a series of photos of makeshift stages and the temple environments where they are placed. The images, snapped at rural and urban areas throughout central and southern Taiwan, are bereft of people and props, suggesting that the traditional forms of entertainment common to temple festivals are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. ■ Aki Gallery (也趣), 141 Minzu W Rd, Taipei City (台北市民族西路141號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from noon to 6:30pm. Tel: (02) 2599-1171 ■ Opening reception on Saturday at 3pm. Until Oct. 2 ▲ Head of the Chateau de Versailles Jean-Jacques Aillagon, left, presents the Hall of Mirrors to Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, center, at Versailles. Zhan Wang, ◄ Chaos, Takashi Murakami (1998). PHOTOS: AFP Artificial Rock No. 148 (2007). PHOTO COURTESY OF ESLITE GALLERY Photography, installation, drawing and documentary videos are brought together in Reflection 反射( ), a solo exhibition on prolific and respected Chinese artist Zhan Wang (展望), which runs the gamut of the 48-year-old artist’s career. Zhan, however, is mostly Traditionalists and conservatives criticize the Versailles show of the famous for his stainless steel sculptures that replicate rock formations, a number of which will be on display. Japanese artist’s work as dishonoring French history The exhibition is complemented by a public exhibition of Artificial Rock No. 59 (假山石#59), a towering work BY PascaLE MOLLard-CHenebenOit that is on display at Taipei 101, and Artificial Rock No. AFP, VERSAILLES, FRANCE 125 (假山石#125) outside the Xinyi Eslite Store (誠品信 義店) in Taipei. show of outlandish sculptures by a cult more than 3,500 signatures. “rope” of spurting breast milk. sculpture Flower Matango. ■ Eslite Gallery (誠品畫廊), 5F, 11 Songgao Rd, Taipei Japanese artist in the historic Chateau “The chateau is not a billboard but one of the In another sculpture, My Lonesome The Murakami show is one in a series of City (台北市松高路11號5F). Open Tuesdays to Sundays of Versailles near Paris has enraged symbols of our history and our culture,” it says. Cowboy, a naked young man finds a novel use contemporary art installations in the chateau, from 11am to 7pm. Tel: (02) 8789-3388 X1588 traditionalists who say it dishonors France’s French King Louis XVI was driven from for his own semen. launched by Aillagon. The first such show ■ Opening reception on Saturday at 3pm. Until Oct. 3 past. the chateau by revolutionaries in 1789 and These two works are not part of the in 2008, with bright and bizarre sculptures From Sept. 14 to Dec. 12, visitors to guillotined four years later. His ancestor Louis Versailles exhibition, but Anne Brassie, a local by the US artist Jeff Koons, also angered Bamboo Curtain Studio, a multi-functional art and Versailles will see eye-grabbing multicolored XIV had set up court there in the 17th century, literary critic who launched the petition, cited traditionalists. performance space, is celebrating its 15th anniversary statues in silver, fiberglass and metal by living in his royal apartments — site of the them as showing that Murakami was not worthy Prince Charles-Emmanuel de Bourbon- with a retrospective exhibition on the works of 15 Takashi Murakami alongside the chateau’s new exhibition. to have his work displayed in Versailles. Parme, an heir of Louis XIV, tried to get it artists who have lived or worked at the venue since ornate murals and chandeliers. The museum’s director, former culture “The young man with an erect penis whose banned, saying it dishonored his family’s past, its inception. The exhibit’s title is Aesthetics at “The Chateau de Versailles is one of minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon said the sperm forms a lasso, the little woman with big but the courts dismissed his bid. the Edge: An Alternative Way for Creativity. the greatest symbols of Western history,” protests “come from far-right fundamentalist breasts whose milk forms a skipping rope — Visitors flocked to the Koons show and to The artists include Tsong Pu (莊普), the “godfather Murakami said in a statement on the museum’s circles and from very conservative circles.” these have no place in the royal apartments,” the second in the series last year, with works of Taiwanese installation art,” muralist Michael Web site. Such groups see Versailles as “a reliquary she said. by French pop artist Xavier Veilhan including Lin (林明宏) and Kuo Wei-kuo (郭維國), creator of “The Versailles of my imagination ... has of nostalgia of [pre-revolution] Ancien Regime Another patriotic cultural group, Versailles futuristic purple horses, a naked woman, and a psychologically rich and haunting surrealist oil become a kind of completely separate and France, of a France that is turned in on itself Defence Coordination, also launched a petition colossal 4m-long Yuri Gagarin. paintings. The selected artists were also chosen to unreal world,” he added. “That is what I have and hostile to modernity,” Aillagon added. which it said has gained more than 4,000 Aillagon said the series “aims to give illustrate the evolution of Taiwan’s art scene over the tried to depict in this exhibition.” Murakami has a global cult following, signatures. Its leader Arnaud Upinsky said the visitors to historic monuments the chance to past 15 years. Versailles enthusiasts however branded but his brash, colorful style and sometimes exhibition was “illegal.” discover art that is less familiar to them, and ■ Bamboo Curtain Studio (竹圍工作室), 39, Ln 88, it an outrage to their beloved museum in the gleefully obscene subject matter are not to Aillagon said the works in the show “were to those who want to see Takashi Murakami or Jhongjheng E Rd Sec 2, Tamsui Township, Taipei posh Paris suburb. everyone’s taste. chosen carefully so they could be seen by Jeff Koons to come to the chateau where they County (台北縣淡水鎮中正東路二段88巷39號). Tel: (02) “Murakami and company have no business The 47-year-old artist’s work evokes the everyone.” wouldn’t normally come.” 8809-3809 in the Chateau of Versailles!” reads a message look of manga comic books, perhaps most They include Oval Buddha Silver, a The organizers of the site said a “playful” ■ Opening reception on Sunday at 7pm. Until Oct. 10 on the Web site Versailles Mon Amour, famously in the 1997 statue Hiropon, which meditating silver figure with a huge globular demonstration was planned in front of the dedicated to a petition that it says has gained depicts a large-chested girl skipping over a head, and the multicolored psychedelic chateau on the day of the exhibition’s opening. Hold Down: Interdisciplinary Interactive Performance (Hold Down互動跨領域演出) brings together artists from Taiwan, Thailand, France and Spain in an interdisciplinary work of conceptual performance art. The exhibit/performance integrates interactive performance, installation art and digital music “to explore a more liberal artistic language.” The Capturing the moment in the nick of time performances last 60 minutes. ■ Barry Room, Taipei Artist Village (台北國際藝術村百里 David Hockney once complained that Eadweard Muybridge was an innovator of photography mountains. A lake can pretend to be a placid 廳), 7 Beiping E Rd, Taipei City (台北市北平東路7號). For photography was a paltry art because its angle camera, duplicating and inverting the mountains more details call Ms Chen at (02) 3393-7377X407 on the world is restricted to what the camera who, almost magically, made time visible in space of Yosemite, but in other moods water is aggres- ■ Friday at 7:30pm and Saturday and Sunday at sees at the moment of exposure: Unlike painting, sive, able to sculpt stone. Muybridge’s long 2:30pm. Tickets are NT$150 and are available at a photograph can make no space for time. Tate BY Peter COnrad exposures make waterfalls or surging creeks the door Britain’s massive and magnificent forthcoming THE GUARDIAN, LONDON look like sharpened wedges or blunt-ended mal- exhibition of Eadweard Muybridge’s work lets, weapons that enforce geological flux. Kaikai Kiki Gallery’s Contemporary Art in West (西 proves Hockney wrong. Combining artistic He followed the advance of the railways 方藝術的世界) brings together 14 contemporary artists vision with scientific analysis, Muybridge that abbreviated time and conquered space as from Europe, Japan and North America working in showed how an image that paralyses motion can they unified the US, but he knew that these sculpture and painting. The paintings and sculptures catch the fluency of phenomena. He was one of technological changes had been anticipated, on display hail from the collection of Takashi the great photographic thinkers, whose mind with epochal gradualness, by nature. A Murakami and the gallery. reached ahead from still photography towards glacier in Yosemite is as implacably regular ■ Kaikai Kiki Gallery, 2, Chongqing S Rd, Sec 1, Taipei the inevitable invention of the cinema, which as the steel tracks being laid by the Union City (台北市重慶南路一段2號). Open Tuesdays to he anticipated by constructing a gadget Pacific engineers. Sundays from 11am to 10pm. Tel: (02) 2382-0328 called a zoopraxiscope that could animate Muybridge’s work can be, as it is here, ■ Until Oct. 3 sequences of images to display mules kicking or spectacularly terrifying. On other occasions nymphs dancing. — as when he gets a woman costumed as a Burgeoning artists Chang Huei-ming (張暉明) and Despite his scientific skills, he enjoyed Greek nymph to walk endlessly up and down Liao Chi-yu (廖祈羽) are presenting their first post-Art the esoteric mystery of his new medium.
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