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Mayor's Preface

World Flora Exposition and International Fine Arts Exhibitions

Blossoming in Taichung

A city's style and its profound impression come from its elements and contents. Taichung has warm citizens and liveable environment,
as well as rich cultural and art scenes woven by diverse literature, charming melodies, intriguing dances, and colorful paintbrushes. Entering
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its 23 edition this year, Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City receives over 1,390 outstanding submissions from all around the
world. “2018 Taichung World Flora Exposition,” a mega international event, will also open recently, filling the city with wonderful floral
fragrances. Vibrant flowers capture all eyes with rich and diverse colors, and people will grow to love and remember all the wonderful things
of Taichung.

Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition is an important competition all artists actively participate in to accumulate experience and attain self-
recognition. This year, brilliant artists from all around the world have submitted the fruits of their hard work. The Cultural Affairs Bureau
of Taichung City Government has put forth detailed programming plan, inviting dozens of experts and scholars to form the preparatory and
review committees. Through their professional help, we have selected 192 prize-winning works. All the winning works from each category
of the competition will be exhibited from November 10 to 28(2018) at the gallery of Dadun Cultural Center. A catalog of the exhibition
will also be compiled to share the wonderful works of art with all art lovers around the world, and it will also serve as an important record
of the city's important assets of art. Of course, to recognize the outstanding artists who have won prizes at the competition, the city is also
organizing an award ceremony and gala to congratulate the winners, and pay tribute to artists who have long worked relentlessly to achieve
their creative goals.

To welcome the 2018 Taichung World Flora Exposition, the city has entered a special collaboration with Japan's Tokyo Fuji Art
Museum, National Palace Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Chimei Museum, and launched the “Flowers of Immense
Charm—A Masterpiece Exhibition by Four Major Museums,” showcasing over 150 exquisite artworks relating to flowers. We sincerely
invite all art lovers from around the world to share this joy and jointly indulge in the fragrances of flowers. As Taichung hosts the World
Flora Expo and the Joint Exhibition by Four Art Museums, “Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition” in our city will not be absent from this
magnificent arts event. The exhibition will open shortly following the two major international events, and the diverse art creations will put the

icing on the cake and illustrate Taichung's rapid pace onto the world stage and its rich cultural development that resemble vibrant and radiant
flowers in full bloom, introducing a series of wonderful and pleasant surprises.

The art exhibitions and World Flora Exposition join forces to turn the city of Taichung into a vast palette and canvas, giving it the
brightest and most celebrative colors that will give rise to exciting new arts. The green mountains, blue rivers, and red flowers of Taichung
invite you to come and share the city's wonders, and open welcoming arms to embrace brilliant artists from all around the world to participate
in the annual Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, jointly writing a new chapter of the storied exhibition in its long and glorious history.

Mayor of Taichung City

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