Yoshitaka Amano   Shu  50x50x10cm  2007   Mixed media

Or, as seen in Keng Hao Kang’s vibrant geometric faces, there are the cartoon characters installed so nicely. There, time flows by various speeds, and all the realities and imaginations pass through one another. The humor and delight they display make perfect sense of all the bizarre stuffs, flowing carefree through reality and imagination. Yet, they manage to exist in perfect balance in the contradicted intersected time and space. Here, the brilliant crossings of life accomplish this surreal art.

Keng Hao Kang   Minnie,Ecstatic Painting   60.5x80cm 2012   Acrylic on Canvas, Mixed media

And there’s Huang Ming Chan, where paddy fields rest under the sun, one row plowed with delicate care after another. All the golden rice ears swing with the breeze, and the sunlight falls where the wind breaks, and the crops extend across the fields and beyond. Time seems to be stolen, and all we see is the playful breeze wandering all over. No one knows where the breeze comes from, and we see but the popping rice swaying and dancing in the wind.

Huang Ming Chan   Summer Field   97x145cm 2003   Oil on canvas

So he no longer wanders in the marvelous forest but cultivates a land of all colorful flora from the harsh raw wilderness. Kwon Ki-soo’s boat sails into the mysterious native land by mistake, where the unexpected visitor finds himself captivated in the deep of the wild forest, fantasizing the golden air beyond reality. We’d rather be lost in this scenery, picturing signs of happiness and hope, so that we keep coming back.

Kwon Ki Soo  162x130cm  2021   Acrylic on Canvas

Kwon Ki Soo  Flying-purple   130x130cm 2008   Acrylic on Canvas

And yet there’s Choe URam, an unrestricted genius following Da Vinci. He manages to put together humanity, aesthetics, theology, science, and the IC structure, and he gives solid, firm machines warm souls and breaths with a literary approach and rational scientific logic. We see flipping wings of gold and silver, swinging regularly and slowly and glowing in their own refined, subtle way. It’s like they crack open a tunnel in the night, where they move freely between the real world and the imaginary one. So mysterious they are, in the multiple dimensions of the universe.

Choe U-Ram   Gold Cakra Ø 55cm 2013   Metallic Material, Resin, Machinery, Electronic Device(CPU Board, Motor, LED)

On the other hand, through the insights of Taiwan’s Hsiang-tu literature and with objective, humorous, sarcastic as well as crucial reconsiderations, one moves to re-read history and rethink social events. Here we find Su Wong-Shen making allegories of social groupings with all the most ordinary gestures of dogs perfectly familiar to him, and he does so with a serious touch in his playfulness. His overlooking and fablelike narratives bring forth his distinctive humor from the underneath.

SU Wong-shen   A roadside tree   1994   53x45cm   Oil on canvas

Eventually, the enchantment of the vision. Ching-Liang Chen’s pottery, or “Trompe l’oeil”, as it’s called in the West, of which the pot in the shape of trunk resembles real wood, is actually modern sculpture so finely made of clay. The highly realistic texture of wood carved into the clay and the firing process as well as skills with hyper temperatures in the kiln; they all embody Chen’s perseverance and passions for art. As if one can actually smell the gentle scent of wood in the air, the trunk pot leaves an entire forest for the passenger. And the invitation for an afternoon tea would fascinate its visitors, enticing them and leaving them wondered to retrace the journey of their life.

Chen Ching-Liang   Big Horizontal Tree Trunk T-pot   H22xL58xW20 2005   Stoneware

Kyoungmi LEE  Temple St on the Table  90x90x10cm  2018  Oil on constructed birch panel

All the wonderful shows on the stage; the curtain never falls here in the roadside theater. There’s miracle happening in every corner, on this magnificent passage and in the moment when your thought arises; it’s anywhere and everywhere, in the unintended encounters in life. As one finds of the surreal daydreams on Kyoungmi Lee's desk, it's the street where the sea just rolled by; the real and the unreal sits between the flat horizon and the cubic, no wind, and serene waves.

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