Artists
Li Cheng-Hsun
Artist Statement:
Each piece of my work is unique and distinctive as result of varied elements, iterating process and my personal experience. Basically, it is started from lots of lines with two or three colors drawn in a canvas. By means of interlacing and crisscrossing these colored lines, I try to manipulate and structure a comprehensive visual image. After the iterating process of attaching tapes, coloring and removing tapes, only pigments remain on a canvas. Or, more specifically, it is an accumulative fruition of exertion mixed with pigments and tracks of time as well. During the process, many variations, such as materials of tapes, pigment concentration, flat wash techniques, and even climate as well as humidity, exercise influence over a whole picture. Therefore, not only is a work an extraordinary piece, but also it has fascinating and compelling characters.
During 2008 to 2009, I began to add some geometric figures which represent my emotions and expressions in my paintings. In my perspective, these figures are the ways to express my feelings in the moment by intuition and are directly unleashed on canvases. Hence, it requires certain distance and different angles in order to experience these figures inserted by personal sentiments.
Each piece of my work is unique and distinctive as result of varied elements, iterating process and my personal experience. Basically, it is started from lots of lines with two or three colors drawn in a canvas. By means of interlacing and crisscrossing these colored lines, I try to manipulate and structure a comprehensive visual image. After the iterating process of attaching tapes, coloring and removing tapes, only pigments remain on a canvas. Or, more specifically, it is an accumulative fruition of exertion mixed with pigments and tracks of time as well. During the process, many variations, such as materials of tapes, pigment concentration, flat wash techniques, and even climate as well as humidity, exercise influence over a whole picture. Therefore, not only is a work an extraordinary piece, but also it has fascinating and compelling characters.
During 2008 to 2009, I began to add some geometric figures which represent my emotions and expressions in my paintings. In my perspective, these figures are the ways to express my feelings in the moment by intuition and are directly unleashed on canvases. Hence, it requires certain distance and different angles in order to experience these figures inserted by personal sentiments.
I have been trying to arrange and settle a lot of feelings and emotions in my life since 2010. I devote myself to a thing or an event that has influence and marks on my life. This thing or event might be extremely tiny and veiled; however, I observe and think over it repeatedly with heart and soul through all my senses. After experiencing and understanding it, I transform my consciousness into work, which becomes “the significance of insignificant trivia” in my mind. The symbols and figures originally set in work are varied from different aspects. In addition to engaging audiences focus on a plane woven by lines, I attempt to make images fragmented and irregular to the maximum. And as to the picture composition, I try to break through the limits of canvases by adding prominent bumps made of pigments in order to interrupt balance. These prominent bumps are painted with the opposite color of a picture so that they can form a three-dimension effect. Under the conclusion that colors carry the weight of spirits and emotions, the color of my paintings varied from bright into deeper, heavier and more complicated visual art. It is the way to display my emotions that constantly accumulate and evolve in my life.
1985.10.31Born in Taipei
Wolong 27 creative groups
Lives and works in Taipei
Education
2008
Graduated from National Taipei University of Education Art and design department
2012
Graduated from National Taipei University of Education Art and design Institute
Solo exhibition
2007 Post Hyper Reality , Taipei , Taiwan
2008 220*60*5*5=130*130*5*10=30*15*5*10*6, Taipei , Taiwan
2009《GEISAI#12》,Tokyo Big Hall , Tokyo , Japan
《GEISAI TAIWAN》, Taipei , Taiwan
2010《Something you teach me》, Taichung , Taiwan
《GEISAI TAIWAN#2》, Taipei , Taiwan
2011《Sense and Sensibility in abstract》, A gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
《One piece room》, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taiwan
2012《So, We’re walking around》, A gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
《Extravagantly spend our glory》, Gai Art , Taipei , Taiwan
Group exhibition
2006 inter納遜諾 , Taipei , Taiwan
2009 《The child of seven master》, Taipei , Taiwan
《090309 Group exhibition》, Chunghwa , Taiwan
《Mobile Man》, Taipei , Taiwan
2010 《Young power》, Taipei , Taiwan
2011 《i.t我題 BrazilXTaiwan》, Taipei , Taiwan
《GEISAI TAIWAN#2 Winner’s group exhibition》，Kaikai Kiki Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
《13th KOUSAKUTEN》，Kanasawa 21st Museum , Kanasawa , Japan
2012 《Inland People》, Soka art center , Tainan , Taiwan
《14th KOUSAKUTEN》，Kanasawa 21st Museum , Kanasawa , Japan
2013 《15th KOUSAKUTEN》，Kanasawa 21st Museum , Kanasawa , Japan
《It’s like Shadow》，Liang Gallery ,Taipei , Taiwan
2014 《Young Art Taipei》，Regent Taipei ,Taipei , Taiwan，
《Forest》，TKG+ gallery ，Taipei , Taiwan
《Asia Contemporary Art Show》，Gonrad Hotel ，HongKong
《Circulation in the small events》 ，BO ART gallery ， Taipei , Taiwan
Collection of Works
2010 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2013 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
Award
2010 GEISAI TAIWAN#2 Kashiwa Sato personal award
2011 The 9th Annual Taoyuan Creation Award , selected
Residence
2012 3331 Arts Chiyoda , Tokyo , Japan
Wolong 27 creative groups
Lives and works in Taipei
Education
2008
Graduated from National Taipei University of Education Art and design department
2012
Graduated from National Taipei University of Education Art and design Institute
Solo exhibition
2007 Post Hyper Reality , Taipei , Taiwan
2008 220*60*5*5=130*130*5*10=30*15*5*10*6, Taipei , Taiwan
2009《GEISAI#12》,Tokyo Big Hall , Tokyo , Japan
《GEISAI TAIWAN》, Taipei , Taiwan
2010《Something you teach me》, Taichung , Taiwan
《GEISAI TAIWAN#2》, Taipei , Taiwan
2011《Sense and Sensibility in abstract》, A gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
《One piece room》, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taiwan
2012《So, We’re walking around》, A gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
《Extravagantly spend our glory》, Gai Art , Taipei , Taiwan
Group exhibition
2006 inter納遜諾 , Taipei , Taiwan
2009 《The child of seven master》, Taipei , Taiwan
《090309 Group exhibition》, Chunghwa , Taiwan
《Mobile Man》, Taipei , Taiwan
2010 《Young power》, Taipei , Taiwan
2011 《i.t我題 BrazilXTaiwan》, Taipei , Taiwan
《GEISAI TAIWAN#2 Winner’s group exhibition》，Kaikai Kiki Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
《13th KOUSAKUTEN》，Kanasawa 21st Museum , Kanasawa , Japan
2012 《Inland People》, Soka art center , Tainan , Taiwan
《14th KOUSAKUTEN》，Kanasawa 21st Museum , Kanasawa , Japan
2013 《15th KOUSAKUTEN》，Kanasawa 21st Museum , Kanasawa , Japan
《It’s like Shadow》，Liang Gallery ,Taipei , Taiwan
2014 《Young Art Taipei》，Regent Taipei ,Taipei , Taiwan，
《Forest》，TKG+ gallery ，Taipei , Taiwan
《Asia Contemporary Art Show》，Gonrad Hotel ，HongKong
《Circulation in the small events》 ，BO ART gallery ， Taipei , Taiwan
Collection of Works
2010 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2013 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
Award
2010 GEISAI TAIWAN#2 Kashiwa Sato personal award
2011 The 9th Annual Taoyuan Creation Award , selected
Residence
2012 3331 Arts Chiyoda , Tokyo , Japan
Memory No.4
Li Cheng-Hsun 22x15cm Private Collection
Memory No.3
Li Cheng-Hsun 41x31cm NTD 12,000
After a heavy rain
Li Cheng-Hsun 60x60x5cm NTD 36,000
Basic space
Li Cheng-Hsun 60x60x5cm NTD 36,000
One for the road
Li Cheng-Hsun 60x60x5cm Private Collection
140410
Li Cheng-Hsun 60x60x5cm NTD 36,000
Fear
Li Cheng-Hsun 80x80x5cm NTD 64,000
Talk tonight
Li Cheng-Hsun 80x80x5cm NTD 64,000
Angels
Li Cheng-Hsun 100x100x5cm Private CollectionPreview
