Influencing Taiwanese Artists: Over 200 Modern Japanese Art and Crafts on Display in Taipei (CNA Focus Taiwan)
An exhibition featuring over 200 pieces of modern Japanese art and crafts that influenced Taiwanese artists during the Japanese colonial period is currently open at the National Taiwan Normal University Museum.Summary
An exhibition titled "Symbiosis of Flowers" is currently taking place at the National Taiwan Normal University Museum in Taipei. The exhibition showcases over 200 pieces of modern Japanese art and crafts that influenced Taiwanese artists during the Japanese colonial period. Through various works including Japanese painting, wood carving, metalwork, and lacquerware, the exhibition traces the artistic exchange between Taiwan and Japan from the late 19th to the early 20th century. It introduces key artists and works closely connected to Taiwan, such as the Western painter Asai Chū's "Kanzan Shittoku" (Cold Mountain and Shitaku), which founded the Kyoto "Kansai Bijutsuin" that produced many Taiwanese painters including Yang San-lang; Tanaka Yoshiyuki's "Taiwanese Temples" depicting the landscapes of temples in Taiwan during the colonial era; the cloisonné artist Hayashi Kōjirō's "Hydrangea and Butterfly Cloisonné Vase" from the Meiji period; and the wood carver Arakawa Reigun's "Flute-Playing Boy (Seiryū)". Additionally, an immersive installation combining the patterns of Edo kiriko (stained glass) with projection technology has been set up, centering on Ishii Sōdō's famous six-panel screen "School of Carp" from the Meiji period, to reinterpret the aesthetics of modern Japanese crafts and decoration. The opening ceremony was held on the 15th, attended by National Palace Museum Director Hsiao Tsung-huang and Professor Yasushi Okada of Tokyo University of the Arts, a conservation restorer. The exhibition runs until September 20 and is free to enter.
(Source：Yahoo!ニュース)