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Sculpture
Juror's Statement, Sculpture Category YU Teng-Chuan
The Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition has now entered its 26th year, evolving into an international arts event and a platform where many artists can realize
their dreams thanks to the e orts by the Cultural A airs Bureau of Taichung City Government with the internationalization of the call for entries. This year,
the number of submissions for preliminary review reached 104, with 8 of them from abroad, including Macau (China), Mongolia, and Indonesia. Despite the
pandemic has a ected the whole world, entries increased compared to previous years, showing that the years-long promotion by the organizer has achieved
outstanding results.
Following the preliminary review, 15 works were selected for the nal review. One work was excluded since it was never physically delivered, so the judges
chose the top three winners, three Award of Merit recipients, and eight shortlisted works from among the 14 pieces.
The winner of First Prize is Bird catcher, a FRP sculpture by LIN Chen-Shun. Through the theme of birds and humans instinctively seeking to survive, the
artist explores the fundamental laws of nature that rule all living beings. Creatures eat to survive and also hunt to survive, thereby becoming the vessels
through which the lives of other beings carry on. Humans, the self-proclaimed supreme beings, should regard themselves with such a spirit of self-sacri ce.
Presented in a realist form, this work deals with the essence of survival in nature, that is, the roles of predator and prey. Overall, the work is dramatic and
the application of color is stunning, earning it the First Prize as voted by the jury.
The Second Prize winner is How can I be free from chackles? by CHEN Yu-Cheng, who uses wood as material to explore the depths of the human psyche. This
work combines a realistic style with wood mounting, using wood joinery to build a structure around the gure's lower body to symbolize self-limitation. The
idea is well presented overall, however, since the piece centers on fetters, the wood mounting could have been more detailed to better the impression of the
work as a whole.
The winner of Third Prize is Killing ants is such a small thing by HSU Chun-Yu. The artist uses special copper wires to form a three-dimensional artwork that
looks like a sketch that constantly morphs from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and vice versa, sometimes even slipping into the light and shadow and
time of a four-dimensional space. This is a highly artistic and unique work, and has won a number of prizes in Taiwan. Killing ants is such a small thing delves
into the question of whether people are inherently good or evil. Innocent children carry out killings that they can manage at their age, and such tiny mischiefs
will continue to expand as they grow, both individually and as a group.
One of the three Award of Merit winners is Trace by YEH Chuan-Hsien. With a masterful sculpting technique, the artist carved clear bite marks on solid,
exquisitely patterned white marble. The artistic features of this sculpture become evident when considered from the perspective of time and what is real and
fantastic.
Another Award of Merit recipient is Let's have a rest by LAI Ke-Wei. This FRP realistic sculpture presents two gures spacing out, which slim, unexceptional
guise expresses their dull, inactive state of mind.
The third Award of Merit winner is Come 'Again' After Flattening by LIN Chih-Hang. Timber is recycled, assembled, glued, and then carved into a attened
aluminum can. This work expresses the ideas of sustainability and recycling by showing that materials can be reclaimed and serve new purposes.
All of the submissions this year are top-notch artworks which employ a wide variety of forms and materials. Elements and composition are only the means,
whereas ideas and content are the end of expression by artists. Every generation has its own culture and missions. We look forward to seeing more artists
discover and explore their own.
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