The Mystery of Time
Stories conceal the other stories; legends seek for the other legends; life committed to parables. It has been said that one should wait five billion years for collect the secrets of time……
A flash in the time-space. All of a sudden you stumble into the tunnel of time. This is an adventure that knows no end. The more you run forward, the further the space retreats and the scenery looms farther away. However, when you back off, the scenery moves forward and looms closer, larger and more mysterious. In this moving sight, it’s as if you saw a moving film played in fast-forward. Metaphysical Art Gallery proudly presents "Black Hole", a special exhibition on artists across Korea, Japan and Taiwan. Here you will see works of Korean artists, such as Choe U-Ram’s breathing, glowing and rhythmically motioning Anima Machine; Kim Tae Ho’s painting process is just like practice of life. He applied colors layers upon layers, and cut through the surface of the layers again and again to create simple yet rich colors monochrome paintings; Yee Sookyung's pieces together broken antique porcelains with gold foils and transforms them into modern sculpture, creating a legend of reincarnation that spans eight hundred years. You will see Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, utilizing intensively gathered dots from large into small to create the magical pumpkin；You will also see Taiwanese artist Wang Pan Youn's painting, where the lone hound chases down the vast plain, as the memories it runs after become the glamorous sun in the far end of the horizon. and Wu Hao does not care for the boundaries of time and space; for him, people and flowers are always the most fascinating in the full-bloomed young, and it’s how he plays with time and space in his works. and Chang Tarng Kuh displaying the two worlds separated by the screen window.
In their works the secret of the times flows and piles, and the times appear to look back into the future, and various stories derive from the transformation of time. Contemplating on life of the universe and the times, these artists make efforts to materialize what is abstract and imaginary, to immaterialize tangible emotions, or to withhold complex feelings in unsophisticated terms like they are unsolvable riddles. With their own concerns, media and expressions, it is as if their artworks travel through the tunnel of time and reflect on one another with mysterious yet intriguing appeals.
Choe U-Ram's art begins from moving sculpture. It is a visualized creation of time and cosmos energy, which is a perfect blend of mechanical art, mythological esthetics and desire technology. He gives temperate life and soul to the cold machine through literary viewpoint. With slow movement and faint glitter, U-ram's works show symbol and metaphor that our senses unable to convey. Each art work at Choe U-Ram undergoes a long process of evolution; they materialize into marvelous forms yet having a bizarre sense of familiarity, being hailed as 'Anima Machine'. His works are not only moving sculptures, they are living entities. Through the delicate fascinating vision, U-ram leads us to explore the very first of organism existence nature; reflects human values and inherent reality.
Kim Tae-Ho's monochrome painting is the result of constant practice. His work is the maze in the garden. The colors are piled up layers upon layers, and cut them off again and again to create a beautiful rhythm and colorful internal rhyme as a beehive. Overlooking the vast simplicity, one can’t help but be attracted to his paintings, so that one falls into this endless and magic perplexity before him/her. The space fracture abruptly. A strong contrast forms between thick outline and the sensitive inner colors. When past beauty and sorrow confronts us, it constructs a mysterious dimension. It’s like a phonograph record with no tracks, whirling into a distorted wormhole. Time and space cracks and disappears, one sees no beginning and finds no end.
Yayoi Kusama Dots unlimitedly spreading dazzle in extreme. As early as forty years ago Yayoi Kusama has achieved an artistic height unsurpassable in Japanese art field. She personally is just the reflection of her nude and blazing art life.“The world I see seems to be separated by a layer of net in pointing dots, and therefore I started to draw these nets of dots…”said Kusama. However, his irregular but brut hallucination became his irreplaceable art symbol. Pumpkin is the memory of life-living. But with Kusama’s dazzling dots alternating the fictional and real world, she shapes the pumpkin showing highly aesthetic. Therefore the rich diversity of her subject and media utilized is in fact a charming process of self-curing, the unique fascination of Yayoi Kusama.
Wang Pan-Youn So enormous the world, yet such petite I. Like the ridiculously running dog in the on the canvas, chasing the time that only flows even farther away. Ultimately there is but desolation. In his painting, Wang Pan-youn turns the complicated story of life in a grand time into perplexing colors and distant, tumultuous space. With well-arranged touches, it’s a realm of art in its own that knows no end. The simple composition in the frame is actually embedded with a multitude of emotional reverberation. His suffering and longing constantly linger in a strange land.
Wu Hao does not care for the boundaries of time and space, he keeps using the modern form to think about the Orient. His paintings stay the beautiful memory and jumping youth; willfully expose the most passionate emotions inside the heart with a peaceful but untrained position. He combines the soft and the hard to pursue joys and colors. Even during the desolate years and among shabby objects, he still can find out the splendor and hope.
Jang Tarng-kuh The realistic screen window is like an estrangement of time, dividing the world in two. Inside the window is the world of a winding room, where a thrilling is in play; outside the window is a distant and indistinct landscape, as it’s also memories and anticipations of images in passing. It’s all but life. Those outside the window are curious of the theater indoors, while those in the room wonder what is fascinating out there. Is it the beauty inside the window that makes the vicissitudes out there, or it is the obscurity outside the window that covets the other side? Life is merely a game. Opening the thin, veiled screen window, Jang Tarng-kuh sees the sceneries of past and future playing in the game.

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