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Juror’s Statement, Sculpture Category

LIN Wen-Hai

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The Sculpture Category of the 23 Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition a seemingly opposing state. The author's selection, utilization, and
of Taichung City received 80 submissions, with 14 works from foreign connection of symbols, and alternating placement, attempt to generating
countries including India, France, Russia, Pakistan, Philippines, U.S., meaning in a particular space.
Poland, China, Malaysia, Bolivia, and Mongolia. After careful evaluation
Third Prize: “Struggle” by WU Wei-Ting, Black Granite, White Marble
and discussion by the jury in the preliminary selection, 12 outstanding
works were chosen to enter the secondary selection. Physical works The work intervenes into the place by the processing of stone, and
were required to be submitted for the secondary selection, and the Indian attempts to return to the material itself after deconstruction, conveying
and Polish participants did not submit their works. Therefore, the jury the true inner feelings through “substantiality” and “nihility,” and
evaluated only 10 works in the secondary selection. After three rounds of exploring the calm and excited phenomena of an individual in the society.
voting, winners of the top three prizes, two winners of Award of Merit, The author deliberately spreads out the stone powder to form a ring-
and five short-listed works were selected. All the prize-winning works shaped curve; it seems unintentional, but the author actually penetrates
this year were outstanding works, and the artists demonstrated knowledge the appearance of beings in a rational manner to conduct reassembly
on the properties of the media of sculptures, maturity in applications between construction and destruction. The author preserves original and
of techniques and concepts, displaying free, diverse, and unique looks. novel creative power, showing us an ambiguous scene that seems to be
Below are some brief comments on the prize-winning works: something but is really not that something.
First Prize: “Exist” by PAN Wei-Chung, Camphor Award of Merit: “Imprison of Stuff ” by CHIEN Hsiang-Lin
“Exist” depicts that at the moment when life ends, people will reflect The work breaks the expressive format of traditional pottery, and
on the meaning of their own lives. Comparing the existence of men to the exudes a sensitive quality unique to women, displaying masterful use of
the medium of clay and colored fabric. The two bodies, man and elephant,
existence of wood, the eroded holes on wood through time subtly coexist
with the image of men, converting into a part of the creative language. are fused together; from meditation, transformation, to derivation of new
image, the overall atmosphere is intriguing and showcases great potential.
Through examining and reflecting on the emotional ties between
men and nature, the artist focuses on the corresponding relationship Award of Merit: “Self-Projection” by CHEN Jia-Bang
between inner world and external appearance, interpreting the nature An unconventional super-sized beetle is carved out of camphor.
of life concerned by the artist. The artist effectively utilizes strength in Utilizing the wood and iron parts, the author showcases maturity in realist
figurative realist depiction for a situational representation with narrative depiction and skills. Beetle has hard shell to protect the fragile body
structure. Through delicate material, he showcases the condensation inside, just like the situation of men, converting inner perceptions into a
of human body that is similar to self-projection. The work displays kind of empathetical connection to become the extension of the author's
stability but is also full of tension, bringing viewers reflections visual and will and the process of self-projection.
ideological reflections.
Examining the prize-winning works, the authors are all young,
Second Prize: “The Ritualistic of Immersed Desire” by LIN Chen-Shun, and are graduates from art academies. Their works have all achieved
FRP, Ready-made Objects an impressive artistic level, but there remains room for improvement
The work portrays boundless and endless desire; there is no purer in terms of expressions. For example: how to integrate and utilize new
existence in the face of desire. The author utilizes epitomized small battle media and traditional materials, or probe deeper into the properties of
space and creates a fighting scene between toys, quietly conducting an new materials for creation; these should be great opportunities for modern
absurd ritual. The ready-made objects and human body are integrated to sculptors to showcase their skills and talents.
present a certain complicated and hard-to-understand vocabulary, forming

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