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Jury's Comments, Sculpture Category CHEN Chen-Huei ᎉ෧ᗳ
Sculpture

The Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition was proudly held for the 25th time this year, and line with the contemporary ideal of sustainable use of resources. In terms of the work's
as the times change, it has seen significant progress in terms of both quality and form of expression, the magni ed gure of the crushed aluminum foil box essentially
quantity. When the Provincial Art Exhibition ended due to the downsizing of the resembles the style of Pop Art. However, the work does not just reinforce the theme of
provincial government, the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition replaced it as the focus of waste materials; the implicit idea of "Squashing" also re ects the stress of society in the
nationwide attention. By welcoming participation by foreign artists, the Da Dun Fine current digital age.
Arts Exhibition established a connection with the global community, and stepped onto Second Place: CHANG Ching-Yi's Novice Dad depicts a father and child peacefully
the international stage of artistic creation. Thus, the standards in the eld of sculpture sleeping together on a soft sofa; the artwork as a whole is shrouded by a quiet and
have been rising every year. At the exhibition this year, the number of works submitted heartwarming atmosphere. From the perspective of sculpting techniques, it is a realist
to the Sculpture Category reached 76. Among them, 15 were from 8 di erent foreign work; however, it is able to escape the conventional elements of realist sampling.
countries, showing that the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition has earned considerable Simpli ed and sensible techniques were used to fully express the love and tolerance
international attention. that a loving father and child have for each other.
Looking at the development of sculpture, the beginning of last century saw Dadaism Third Place: HSU Chin-Cheng's Enduring is an assemblage made of found objects.
open up a Pandora's box for modern art. Since then, the boundaries of various art With a collection of many memory-related found objects, such as cassette tapes,
forms, including sculpture, painting, and crafts, were transcended, opening up endless CDs, and memory cards, the artist used symbolist techniques to reify the concept of
possibilities for visual art. Until the end of World War II, sculpture bene ted from the memory with a head sculpture and the concept of preservation with a drawer, cleverly
impetus generated by modernism. Postmodernism was then the catalyst for unbridled highlighting the implicit meaning of Enduring.
breakthroughs in the use of materials, forms of expression, and conceptualization of Award of Merit: CHEN Yu-Lan's Collection is a ceramic work that uses the material's
time and space in art genres such as Pop Art, Arte Povera, Conceptual Art, Installation changes of state to explore possibilities and re ect the value of life.
Art, Land Art, and Body Art. This not only formed the fountainhead of contemporary Award of Merit: SHAO Tsung-Jie's Solution is a wood sculpture that uses forms with
art, but also resulted in "diversity" being the most important feature of contemporary tangled and disordered clusters of lines to metaphorically express the chaos of an ever-
sculpture. Today in the 21st century, diverse forms still co-exist. A diversity of qualities changing world, while the motivation to persist is driven by the hope that unraveling
can be found in the forms, materials, contents, techniques, and methods of expression the cocoons will solve many mysteries.
of the submitted works in the Sculpture Category this year. The 76 submitted works
went through the jury's rigorous preliminary and secondary reviews. In the nal review,
one work was selected for each of the top three winning prizes and two works for the
Award of Merit, while ve works were shortlisted.
Brief reviews of the features of the winning works are as follows:
First Place: LIN Chih-Hang's Squashing 19 is made of wood. Large amounts of
recycled waste wood and used timber were assembled and glued together before
they were carved to complete the artwork. The concepts of recycling and reuse are in

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