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CROSSROADS•ANOTHER DIMENSION A Cross-strait Four-regions Artistic Exchange Project 2013
2013.09.07 - 2013.11.03
KMFA Galleries 401-403 and Multi-Purpose Room
CROSSROADS•ANOTHER DIMENSION A Cross-strait Four-regions Artistic Exchange Project 2013
Introduction to the Exhibition:
This year marks the fifth “CROSS-STRAIT FOUR-REGIONS ARTISTIC EXCHANGE PROJECT”. It is jointly organized this year by the He Xiangning Art Museum from mainland China, Macao Museum of Art, APO, and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts from Kaohsiung (with the other three organizations invited by the He Xiangning Art Museum). The exhibition of the Project this year takes on the theme of “Crossroads. Another Dimension” with the intention of reflecting the artistic and cultural realities of four different regions across the Taiwan Straits in the modern world of globalization and reflecting how artists move around among the four regions in pursuit of survival and more creative space. This exhibition displays over 41 multimedia works by 16 artists recommended by the curators from the four regions (four artists recommended respectively by each curator). Their works demonstrate a brand-new kind of diversity in artistic expressions and narrative exchanges. The fact that the exhibition is held respectively in the four regions is also an extension of the intended discussion of spatial mobility and displacement, showing the artists’ different interpretations of and participation in different layers of “spaces”. This exhibition provides an unprecedented platform of dialogues among the artists in four regions across the Taiwan Straits.
Foreword:
Located at a geographical crossroads, the small island of Taiwan has been a stage on which many indigenous and foreign cultures have undergone a process of fusion and mutual enrichment. This is a process that began 50,000 years ago with the emergence of the ancestors of those peoples who today speak Austronesian languages. As a result, the various parts of Taiwan have their own histories and customs, and the island boasts a diverse cultural landscape that gradually changes from north to south.
Since it was established, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts has pursued a strategy combining "global localization" with "local globalization," and this has become the museum's operating philosophy. As a result, while actively conducting international art interchange activities and continuing to help local artists participate in exhibitions, we are also striving to realize the ideal of "glocalization" via mutually complementary relationships with cooperating units and continuous efforts to develop sustainable, beneficial interactive mechanisms. After close to 20 years of dedicated efforts, we conduct exhibition exchanges with several dozen cooperating countries and cities. Since our exchanges with cultural and educational organizations in China were severely limited due to lack of contact in the past, this "Crossroads‧Another Dimension –A Cross-Strait Four-Region Artistic Exchange Project" can justly be considered a milestone in this museum's participation in the flowering of Chinese contemporary art.
From the 2008 "Departure" to the 2010 "Butterfly Effect," 2011 "1+1," 2012
"It Takes Four Sorts," and finally to this year's "Crossroads‧Another Dimension," the Cross-Strait Four-Region Artistic Exchange Project directed by Shenzhen's He Xiangning Art Museum has held a total of five exhibitions thus far. This year, the He Xiangning Art Museum has teamed up with the Macao Museum of Art, Hong Kong Art Promotion Office, and this museum (KMFA) to jointly organize the current exhibition, which is particularly interesting and innovative because it transcends the northern Taiwan-perspective that has colored some of the recent exhibitions involving art from Taiwan. This year's topic of "Crossroads‧Another Dimension" reflects the ongoing recent shifts and dislocations in artists' creative space and working domains in the face of globalization and the reality in China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Curators affiliated with all four organizers have each recommended four artists—for a total of 16—and there is a total of 41 works in various media. The exhibition thus reveals a novel diversity of expression, while providing a forum for narrative conversation as it visits all four regions. It will elaborate on the implications of artists' fluid, shifting space for exploration, and the artists' creative interpretations of different levels of "space," and their actual involvement in connecting those spaces, will initiate in-depth cross-Strait artistic dialogues different from any that occurred in the past.
I would like to express our deepest gratitude to the He Xiangning Art Museum for its tireless support of the Cross-Strait Four Region Artistic Exchange Project year after year. I am particularly indebted to chief curator Feng Boyi, the other curators at each regional organization, the work personnel, and all the participating artists for their dedication and staunch loyalty to the project. Furthermore, I would be remiss not to mention that sponsorship from the Mountain Art Foundation has enabled this museum to take part in this project for the first time, and has facilitated the successful holding of the exhibition at our museum despite time, funding, and manpower constraints. The fact that this exhibition will travel between China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan will allow viewers in these four regions to see and appreciate each other's artistic perspectives and value, giving the public even more expansive horizons for exploration. This exhibition will multiply the power of the individual regions and their narratives, and realize the important cultural significance of the Exchange Project.
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