Monday, July 28, 2008

Working Backwards: July to May

Two days before leaving Taiwan, the show that included my and my workshop participants' works, Collaboration: Anticipating the Art of the Future, opened at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.

I brought this piece entitled Mechanical Universe: Nocturne from Boston to finish while a resident at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. I took the idea of a nocturne and used a limited palette of silvers and grey to suggest Whistler's famous twilight images and his equal interest in the abstract qualities of limited tones.These formal effects have been channeled via Mondrian to create an abstracted choreography between the moving paintings, in order to echo the eerie sense of longing in the sounds contributed by the Belgian sound artist Yannick Franck. (photos: Chang-Chih Chen)

The museum also made a nice blog of the workshop at http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3521028847868531777&postID=5396888155115639043

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