Yang Mao-Lin Panda Sarasvati-MonroeⅡ 129x77x88cm 2008 Bronze sculpture with Gold Foil
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And so you realize: the past and the future, all the times come to peace in the Happy Farm here at Metaphysical Art Gallery. Aside from all the appearances and images, happiness is also about profound creativity; here it’s through the artist’s hands and paintbrushes, turning intangible imaginations into something material and tangible. It may look totally spontaneous at first, like Hung Yi’s spotted cat, in sunglasses and stubbornly living in a birdcage. Or it may be Hwang Ming-Che, who disguises as a bull’s head that also happens to be a bullseye, in the provoking magenta color, full of dramatic self-sarcasm. But none of the disarray, confusion of reasons can compare with Gary Baseman’s world. It’s a paradise of bareness, where all that is primitive, pretty, ugly, evil, good, on the inside or outside, is cleansed and has its redemption here. And what turns out is a fine paradise, innocent and naïve. And you see Monroe says to him, wittily, “your paradise is but a piece of imagination in a corner of my farm.” So, we see Shozo Araki’s pacing shadow, smiling…
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