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Juror's Statement

LI Chen-Ming

類 墨 彩

Taichung has always been known for thriving development of culture and art, and its artistic ambience remains robust until today. Moreover, through
promotion by several cultural centers of Taichung, the city has become a place where art lovers come and stay, and Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition has
become the best stage for young artists to showcase their talents.
Observing the entries of the Ink Wash category at this year's Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, most artists try to strike a balance between tradition and
contemporaneity, exploring painting styles that are true and faithful to themselves. Also, in terms of blending Western and Eastern media, they also try to
reference one another to search for infinite possibilities.
The Ink Wash category of this year's Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition received 203 entries, among which eight were from overseas, including: two from
Mainland China, three from China/Hong Kong, two from Malaysia, and one from India. After the preliminary review, 28 were selected, among which 27
entries were judged in the final review, and one was not delivered. After multiple rounds of voting and scoring in both the preliminary and final reviews,
the five jurors finally named 27 prize winners, including winners of the top three prizes, four Award of Merit winners, and 20 selected works.
This year's First Prize went to "Mirror Image" by HUANG Yu-Zhen. In a blended and misplaced scene, the artist uses blocks to represent broken and
interweaving pieces of a mirror, creating a scene of commotion. Through swift and clean brushstrokes, the artist creates a painting of both virtual and real
light and shadow, projecting own anxiety of being trapped between reality and virtuality. The dog and bird in the painting are vividly depicted through Ink Wash Painting
brilliant and ingenious techniques, and stand out from the smudgy ink colors to strike a chord with audience.
Second Prize went to "Confine of Thought" by CHANG Wei-Ling. The painting is symmetric down the center, in which the artist uses the
background of black base and round frame to present a powerful contrast of bright and dark, and accentuate the woman, whose head is omitted, sitting
properly in wedding dress, suggesting the helplessness of women losing their freedom in a traditional marriage and their resentment of being shackled
by the pressure of family. The pausing butterfly longs for flying away, revealing the longings within. The sophisticated depiction and clean composition
exude a hint of sadness through tranquility.
HUANG Chun-Teng's "Home" won Third Prize. The artist adopts repeated construct of image symbol and utilizes the densely layered grey and
black lines to capture a corner of a residential building in a densely populated town or city. The pressing atmosphere deliberately created is a kind of
dependency of mutual support, as well as a suffocating feeling of over-crowdedness. The repetition of the visual language and symbol creates waves of
pressure on viewers, exuding powerful and shocking tensions of the painting.
The four Award of Merit winners are also outstanding works the jury pondered on, as they each demonstrate high levels of creative and artistic
qualities. In "Image of Three," KUO Tien-Chung divides the painting into three scenes of different sizes, and the composition featuring both picture and
text presents a strong sense of design. The realistic depictions of panda exhibit vivid postures and expressions. The artist uses simple ink color for the
background to accentuate the subject, enhancing the expressiveness of the work. In "Breed Mystery," LUO Shang-Yu tries to dissect legends of ancient
monsters. He transforms traditional myths and explores new looks to give them new symbolic meanings, while also constructing own painting style. In
"Incomplete Creatures," CHEN Mei-Chen utilizes techniques of flowing, layering, and rendering of ink on different types of paper, and combines freely
flowing ink color and deliberate brushstrokes to create real or fictional birds and animals in strange forms. The fragments are then assembled into the
work. WANG Yi-Ting's "Hi" is a meticulous depiction of a fully loaded ship on the sea, which is a metaphor of adventurous spirit of child-like innocence
and fearlessness, breaking the emotional barriers among people by saying "Hi."
We encourage all the award winners to take their art to another level and continually refine their skills!