Art Taipei 2014

(31/10/2014 - 03/11/2014)

http://art-taipei.com/

Art Taipei 2014
Taipei
Taïwan

Art Taipei 2014 opens up a beautiful encounter between spectators and art, with premium exhibitions from over 140 selected galleries


As an art fair with longest operational experience in Asian-Pacific area, Art Taipei has been adhering to its principle in holding preeminent exhibitions while entering the 21st year of history. This year over half of the participating galleries come from overseas. de Sarthe Gallery (Hong Kong) and Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong/Shanghia/Singapore), both of which won warm applauses last year, continuing to partake in this year’s Art Taipei. Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo/Singapore) and ShugoArts (Tokyo) will also bring phenomenal artworks at Art Taipei 2014. Under the Pan-Asia concept, Contempop Expressions Galleries (from Tel Aviv) presents their internal artistic viewpoints from Middle East. Southeast Asia contemporary art has been renowned for its cultural diversity and historical convergence and has displayed supreme quality and promising market value in recent years. Southeast Asia galleries: The Drawing Room (Manila/ Singapore), Yavuz Gallery (Singapore) and Silverlens Galleries (Manila/ Singapore) will definitely bring unparalleled energy from the tropical region.


How to regard art:

Let’s learn to appreciate the way artists interact with global trend


This year we not only have a wider variety of galleries as participants, but these galleries also have endeavored to present more well-planned exhibitions for the audience. Among them, Ota Fine Arts from Tokyo presents a complete series of collection of Yayoi Kusama, which will give the audience a further understanding of the legendary artist’s art creations in differing fields and various materials. Wako Works of Art, a gallery from Tokyo, provides wonderful artworks of heavyweight artists such as Gerhard Richter and Luc Tuymans. Galerie Urs Meile (Luzern/ Beijing) presents artworks by a controversial artist, Ai Weiwei, while ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai/Beijing) provides works of Yang Fudong and Zhang Enli, both being major artists from China.

An artwork requires an artist and a connoisseur to complete its meaning. Everyone has his or her way to interact with art. Hence we decided this year’s slogan of Art Taipei to be “Dear Art,” an opening phrase in a letter, with the hope that everybody can have no anxiety when facing artworks and be courageous to initiate a conversation to explore the unknown in art world. In today’s art landscapes across the globe, Art Taipei is the starting point of understanding as well as a long-term relationship.