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Jury's Comments, Crafts Category WEI Yen-Shun ʈ ᖵ ᗳ

Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City aims to promote 12 works, selecting only Second Prize, Third Prize, 3 Award of
cultural and art education and creation, inspire creative practices Merit, and 7 shortlisted works. The jury’s comments on the Second
and energy of domestic and foreign art professionals, and offer Prize and Third Prize winners are as followed:
a platform for exchange, elevating standards of art and aesthetic The Second Prize winning work is titled “Cascading Mountains.”
education, enriching citizens’ life through art, and enhancing art This is a Kyocho bodiless lacquerware that uses natural lacquer as
and cultural development. the medium and mountain as the theme. The author aims to create
For this year’s Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition Crafts category, layers of rolling hills and mountains to present a magni�icent view,
participating works included materials such as stone, ceramics, which is also a metaphor of the lacquering craft, where lacquer is Crafts
metal, lacquer, glass, wooden materials, and mixed materials. All applied a layer at a time. The work showcases exquisite technique,
works showed mastery over the properties of the materials, as well and captures material aesthetics and the spatial communication of
as mature techniques, and demonstrated the dialectics between mountain.
symbols and images of creative expressions. The category received The Third Prize winning work is titled “Swirl.” The author uses
98 submissions; 12 of which were submissions from overseas, combination of glazes and re�inement of other media to create
including 9 from Mongolia and 3 from China/Hong Kong. After a fluid presentation of the vortex effect of water, showcasing the
judgement by 5 professional jurors, and through the mechanism variation of colors. The innovative idea inspired by nature creates
of preliminary and �inal reviews, 15 works were shortlisted after a natural swirl, drawing viewers into the extremely beautiful
the �irst review, among which 4 were overseas works, including 1 phenomenon of vortex.
from China that did not submit actual work for �inal review, and The works in the Crafts category of this year’s Da Dun Fine
3 from Mongolia, where 1 did not submit actual work for �inal Arts Exhibition feature diverse creative media, and showcase
review and another one was not selected. Due to selection rules, experimentality and ideology; however, the number of submissions
there were limited prizes and of course some quality works would was still lower than other categories. In addition to enhancing the
be regrettably left out. The �inal review took place on June 18, the promotion and encouragement of participation by domestic and
jurors meticulously reviewed the works and carried out many overseas creative talents, crafts also involve the knowledge and
rounds of discussions on the selection mechanism; they also paid application of different materials, skills for technological tools, and
attention to the form, structure, color, and association with visual creative expression of cubic designs, which require accumulation of
space, of the works, as well as the overall expression, including the experience over time before maturing into the creative stage where
works’ material and aesthetic value hidden within the dialectics on material, concept, and technique, come together, completing the
concepts of opposition, prominence, harmony, and coordination. pursuit of own ideals and achieving perfect presentation of works.
In general, most of the works could grasp the material aesthetics, I look forward to seeing more craft professionals from different
show mature techniques, and focus on conveyance of concepts, but domains to participate in the exhibition in the future, further
for works receiving Award of Merit and above, there was a lack of enriching the contents of Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition on existing
innovative uniqueness and expression of in-depth implications. The foundation, and nurturing the cultural and aesthetic literacy of the
jurors thoroughly reviewed and discussed the works, and �inally people in this city.
decided that there would be no First Prize winner among the �inal

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