The grand opening of the 24th Art Taipei was held in the Taipei World Trade Center Hall from 10/19 to 10/23. This year, the Art Fair included a total of 123 galleries from Taiwan and abroad, including 14 international first-time exhibitors. Galleries from Taiwan, Beijing, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan came together to focus on the "Asian Vision", exploring the value and identity of Asian art and culture. The theme this year for the fair was "The Rise of the Private Museum", responding to the trends of the global art market through the lens of contemporary Asian art.
Newly exhibiting Italian art gallery Massimo De Carlo brought Lucio Fontana's work "Concetto Spaziale Attese" into the spotlight. The Opera Gallery, which brought work by Colombian painter Fernando Botero last year, once again exhibited work by Botero. Botero's large format oil painting "Man and Woman in Banana Plantation" was displayed in the exhibition hall and attracted many onlookers.
This year's Expo featured relatively few digital media works, highlighting instead mostly paintings. Clothing boutique SHIATZY CHEN brought an interactive body art piece called "Body Composition II", which used real-time digital capture and computing to project the human body in motion, redefining the relationship between the relationship between works of art and public spaces
This year's Expo is a relatively lack of digital media works, mainly in graphic painting as the main. Body Dress Up Nathalie brings a new interactive body art "Body Composition II", which uses a real-time digital capture and computing system to project dynamic reproduction of the human body onto the screen to redefine the relationship between works of art and public spaces. Public art pavilion features art works of art by Australian artist Kit Webster. This year's Art Fair is tailor-made for the new work "Adrift", which exhibits material-flowing texture.
Pavilion layout, by the Iraqi art in bright and concise venue is particularly prominent. The artistic style of the Iraqi-Japanese art is arranged into the style of the western apartment. When the visitors walked into the exhibition area, they were invited to the artist's room as warm and interesting.
In Taiwan galleries, many galleries focus on promoting Chinese artists. Such as the Asian Art Center brought a lot of Taiwanese artists, such as: Zao Wou-ki, Zhu is white, Yang Zhihong, Li Zhen, Pan Xinhua and so on. The new gallery opens the East-West art dialogue with the British sculpture master Tony. Led by Tony Cragg, shows two sculptures. In addition to bring Daniel. Daniel Richter, Jill. Germany. Jules de Balincourt, Gillian. Featured works by Gillian Carnegie and Chu Teh-Chun. The Eslite gallery focuses on the founding artist Chen Daoming of the Oriental Art Society and displays the artist's abstract world of cascading pigments. The Big Sight The Lin Sheen Gallery focuses on the theme of "Culture," bringing together contemporary and contemporary artists of different genres, showing photographs of video artist Chen Chih-Jen, and traces of culture and history.
Last year, the Bluerider ART Gallery, which brought Swiss video-sculpture artist Marck to admire collectors last year, once again brought in three pieces of the artist's creation, attracting quite a few visitors to the gallery and launching nine hottest artists in the gallery Avant-garde creation.
Overall, the total number of participating galleries was 17 less than last year, with the number of galleries from Europe, the United States and Australia having dropped significantly. This year's participating galleries bring more emphasis on the works of Chinese and Japanese artists, referring to the success points of the major art fairs in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the neighboring regions. Having a positive international gallery participation is one of the key achievements of the Expo.
(Figure 1) 2017 Art Taipei aerial view
(Figure 2) Adrift by Kit Webster
(Figure 3) New Gallery Exhibition
(Figure 4) Swiss video sculpture artist Mark (Marck)
