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Sculpture
雕塑類

CHANG Nai -Wen

The Sculpture category of the Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition is an international competition, attracting artists from different
countries every year. This year’s competition received as many as 117 entries, and we tried to select 15 for evaluation of physical
works. With limited quota, some outstanding entries were unfortunately eliminated in the process of document and photograph
review, but I look forward to all aspired artists to persist on and try again.
Examining the originals of the 15 selected works, they each display a different style; not only do they have unique expressions in
terms of material, technique, and method, but also convey brilliant concepts, allowing the jurors to see the diversity and vision of
contemporary development of sculpture. After multiple rounds of discussion, the jury selected the winners of the top three prizes
and three Award of Merit winners. First Prize went to TSAI Yu’s “Back Home?,” which is a phenomenon-based work that combines
sculpture and sound in an attempt to create miniature memory scenario. The artist isolated the winding staircase structure of a
traditional four-story apartment into a vertical spatial sculpture, and incorporated sound effects of footsteps and closing metal
doors, to create a monument of nostalgia that seems to spiral endlessly upward, sensitively and precisely conjuring the wandering
memory of finding temporary resident on the fringes of the city. If a modernist sculpture becomes a sculptural monument
commemorating an unspecified event, then Tsai Yu’s sculpture here has transformed into a phenomenal object that constantly
conducts situational sculpturing.
Second Prize went to “Penetration of Memory,” where artist CHIU Yung-Feng deformed, reassembled, connected, and
reconfigured the ceramic vessel-like structure of his own invention to metaphorically express memory, flow of consciousness,
and transcendence. The artist’s handling of these elements he regards as symbols of events and memory resemble his abstract
confrontation of his external situations. Third Prize winner “Transcending Postures 2” by LIANG Hoi-Sa combines the simplified
nude bodies made of different stones in lying, stretching, or intertwined postures, as if trying to respond to a kind of life’s situation
or attitude. Through seemingly abstract forms, the stainless steel platform of the tatami once again pulls viewers back to view the
sculpture in reality. Both CHIU Yung-Feng and LIANG Hoi-Sa do not adopt the “de-symbolization” perspective of past Western
abstract sculpture; instead, they try to satisfy the artists’ metaphorical settings.
Among the three winners of the Award of Merit, the expressions of both YANG Min-Ti’s “Ship” and WU Yu-Tung’s “After-Effect”
seem to respond to a certain state of ship and navigation, yet they are headed into two expressive extremes: one presents an
industrial post-structural aesthetics, reminding people of the mechanistic art of Jean Tinguely; whereas “After-Effect” displays
the aesthetic attitude of natural engendering, by intelligently employing paper pulp to create wavy lines that mirror floating
decaying wood to present the dialectics on the original consistency between the two materials. Finally, “Writing in Shape No 23 –
Interweaving Upwards, Sports Field, Shield, Tentacles” by HUANG Chung-Chieh is different compared to the other two, as the artist
creates the sculpture using the modern digital modeling technology, entering the creation of “form” of virtual sculpturing through
the technical state of “de-craftsmanship.” Just like its title of a collection of things, the work creates a community of “forms” through
simulation and fusion of different intentions, while also giving it a natural texture to question the state of technology and promptly
respond to another temporal path of sculpture.
To artists, competitions are another kind of creative stimulant, but not the reason why they can succeed. Pure passion for art,
unwavering will, and creative ambition are the keys to success. This is our message of encouragement for all the artists who did not
win this time.

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