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Juror’s Statement,

Printmaking Category

NI Chao-Long

Over the years, printmaking has always been the most important and technological edge of the printing technology, we can clearly see the
exciting category at the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City, emergence of the rapidly evolving digital prints. Not only has it enhanced
for it has attracted the participation of many international printmakers the diversity of the works at the exhibition, it is also pounding and
and introduced diverse types of prints and techniques, elevating the breaking the “category” framework of traditional arts. Various different
originally regional exhibition to the status of an international event, media and artistic expressions collide and converse, showing the issues
raising the level of excitement. Although this year's call for submission and aspects all the artists think about and are concerned with, from which
period overlapped with “International Biennial Print Exhibit,” Da Dun we can also get a glimpse of the future direction of the art of printmaking.
Fine Arts Exhibition still received enthusiastic responses and supports Let's first look at the First Prize-winning work by KAO Chun-Ying:
from international printmakers. Participants came from Poland, Bolivia,
U.S., Mexico, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Mongolia, and Italy. The I remember seeing KAO Chun-Ying's work of sandpaper intaglio
exhibition has connected local and international communities, allowing for the first time at a selection in 2012. I was surprised that a female artist
Taiwanese people to witness the diversity of the art of printmaking, would choose to use sandpaper; although it was light, and you could
and facilitated the mutual understanding of the values of Eastern and easily apply different colors on it, you needed to constantly carve, cut,
Western arts, further bridging Taiwan's printmaking art with the world. polish, and scratch, and in order to depict texture, you would have to
This achievement, perhaps, was unexpected when “Da Dun Fine Arts layer more agents and repeat the processes … it required much hard work.
Exhibition” was founded. Later, she explained her creative process: “Perceiving loneliness through
the long period of repetitive scratching is like a kind of training; obsessed
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The 23 Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition preliminary selection was with creation, as it is as sacred as the birth of life.” This is something
held on May 6. For the Printmaking Category, the jury consisting of LIN others cannot understand, and perhaps the sorrow, joy, and free spirit of
Chang-De, NI Chao-Long, SHEN Chin-Yuan, LIN Hsueh-Ching, and an artist!
WANG Chen-Tai, selected 10 works to enter the secondary selection,
which took place on June 12. Winners of the top prizes, two winners of For her work, “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,” she cuts the print
the Award of Merit, and 5 short-listed works were chosen. Before I wrote into three parts, in the print with the smooth effect of mezzotint, we can
this statement, I went through the CVs of the winners, and discovered see that she compares herself, an animal, to a plant, hoping to learn from
that there are two foreign artists, and the winners of the First and Third the spirit of the plant for her attitude toward life; she does not fight or
Prizes are both female printmakers. Top five winners, including Award beg, as she blossoms own flowers and bears own fruits. Walking pass the
of Merit winners, are all weathered veterans, who often compete and darkness and struggles on the left, we move to the glorious future on the
win in various domestic and international exhibitions. “Success is never right. Through concrete realization of art and aesthetics, she expresses
coincidental.” This especially true! in her works the personal traits, reflections on life, and thoughts on daily
life. Them, image, color, technique, and design are all excellent.
Examining the submissions of this year's exhibition, etching
and woodcut still accounted for high percentages; however, with the Also a female artist, KIM Hyun-Jin is from South Korea. Her work,

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