Instrumental in promoting the work of Asian masters such as Zao Wou-Ki, Lin Fengmian and Sanyu, Tina Keng Gallery supports visionary Asian artists and continues to build bridges with international institutions, collections and connoisseurs of Asian Art. TKG+, as the contemporary platform of Tina Keng Gallery, is devoted to the promotion and support of the most interesting and significant contemporary art from the region, working with emerging artists and privileging experimentation in art across different media, from video and photography to installation and new media.
In the current installment of Art Taipei 2012, Tina Keng Gallery will feature the works of Wang Huaiqing, Yang Mao-Lin, Wu Tien-Chang, Lin Ju, and Kao Chung-Li. In addition to being exhibited at Art Taipei, Wang Huaiqing will also be presented at the fourth edition of Abu Dhabi Art. Yang Mao-Lin and Wu Tien-Chang, both informed by changes in the social and political climate of Taiwan, will present Alice Bodhisattva Rides on Hummingbird (2011) as Yang rewrites the story of Alice and Unforgettable Lover(2011) as Wu blurs fantasy and reality in his experimentation with digital manipulation. Lin Ju often paints scenes of forests, turning himself into wild vines that creep up trees, sending tendrils wherever the tree branches. Kao Chung-Li, with the same focus, reviews images and texts in a self-reflective stance to understand history, politics, and local/global issues, in the context of the personal stories.
TKG+will launch the work of Wang Yahui, Wu Chi-Tsung, and Chen Ching-Yuan, as the artists contemplate the engagement of senses, memory, and mass, creating works that are immersed in the process and poetics of the everyday. Wang Yahui ponders the world as she watches the seasons, and collects dusts from her childhood home, remolding them into vivid objects of her memory. Wu Chi-Tsungdevotes attention to the methods used in producing and interpreting images, with a focus on the physics of light. Chen Ching-Yuan is especially interested in the dynamics of “staggering,” the act of simultaneously losing and regaining one’s equilibrium, as Chen considers this in the form of bodies and balance.