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Director's Preface

After 29 years, Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition is currently the one public art exhibition in Taiwan that has the largest scale
and most submissions. Moreover, this year’s total prize money has been significantly increased by NTD 1.83 million to NTD
5.69 million to reward and support all prize-winning artists, which also makes Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition the one public
art exhibition that has the highest total prize money. Through substantial rewards, we hope to build Da Dun Fine Arts
Exhibition into the most iconic platform of art competition recognized by all contemporary artists.
In response to the arrival of the digital age, Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition’s call for submissions and evaluation procedures
have also kept pace with the times, launching simultaneous online and paper applications in 2020, and digital evaluation
in 2023, significantly reducing the use of paper during the evaluation process to realize the targets of environmental
protection and sustainable development. Moreover, the development of AI has gradually influenced the creative modes
of artists. This year, the Digital Art category also received some AI-generated works, which shows that Da Dun Fine Arts
Exhibition is not only a creative platform of traditional arts, but has also advanced with the times through innovation and
breakthrough to become a diverse and interdisciplinary platform of art competition.
After preliminary and final reviews, this year’s exhibition has selected 176 prize-winning works from 1,681 submissions. It
was not an easy feat. Most notably, every year’s prize-winning works capture the zeitgeist and the trajectory of collective
memory, for example: First Prize-winning sculpture “Back Home?” by TSAI Yu presents the collective memory of young
people working away from home in Taipei, who walk by old apartment stairways every day; First Prize-winning work in
Photography, “Nostalgia for the Military Village” by CHANG CHIEN Yu-Sung, presents the feeling of loss that arises as time
pushes forward and things continue to change by capturing a severely eroded red door; similarly, First Prize-winner in
Watercolor Painting, “Rest” by HUANG Chun-Chieh, faithfully expresses modern people’s longings in life by depicting a
relaxed scene of a person and a pet dog sharing a nap.
Every year’s prize-winning works of Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition showcase outstanding and diverse creativity and
quality. I’d like to thank all jurors and staff members for their long-time contribution and encouragement, and congratulate
all prize-winners for winning the honors at this year’s exhibition. Thank you to all participants for jointly driving the
development and exchange of art in Taiwan.

Director, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taichung City

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