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¡@¡@Life of an artist is written
on his/her works. To study Lee Ming-tse's paintings
is like to review his life experience and transition.
What is more impressive than its plain and simple
appearance is the spiritual aspects and transitions
beyond. The boisterous and unusual temple fairs
seen at childhood have left an indelible mark
on the artist's mind. There were leather-silhouette
plays, hand puppet plays, worship arts, and ghost
generals with queer outfit and dramatic actions.
Fantasy-like plot that turns impossible events
into possible legends is mingled in Lee's childhood
memory together with the sounds of the sword and
knife they were holding. It actually turned out
to be a stage for awe and wonders.
¡@¡@New Artist Award from Lion Fine Arts praised
Lee's style and initiated his journey to Taipei
to experience life there, but it also began his
career as an artist that is no turning back. The
clashes between reality and imagination were all
buried in Lee's heart. When back to Kaohsiung,
he was like a burning phoenix. He temporarily
stayed at the upstairs of a friend's art crafts
shop. Day in and day out he'd ride a scooter around. |
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He saw modern people, things, lands, buildings
and exploitation. With his nostalgia brewed in
the art crafts shop and his spirit of a knight,
his mind raced, jumping from one after another
new happenings.
¡@¡@His representation of inward feelings is more
like a self-reflection and self-analysis. Self-scorn
outweighs concern for the environment or a sense
of helplessness. Human figures that look both
modern and ancient walk in a yard that looks at
one point real but false at another. Elements
of male and female, pros and cons, opaqueness
and transparency are all mingled in his works.
Plain colors and child-like touches, carrying
a dark-toned fun and humor and an obvious ambition
that wishes to travel through time and space.
¡@¡@The subconscious attractions to mythology liberated
his imagination which blended the past and the
modern. Rocks in peculiar shapes, layers of mountains,
houses and gardens are all blended in a space
of the space, a time of the time, a man of the
man, seeming plain but actually complicated and
shone with a beauty. This is the mythology that
he created. His process of creation is also permeated
with such mythology during which he colored one
small patch after another, shaped one scene after
another, knitted one dream after another that
led to an enigmatic and profound wonderland. The
viewers may find themselves too drawn to this
wonderland and couldn't find a way out.
¡@¡@Recently, Lee has been working on installation
of leather-silhouette play and using toys as material.
He seemed to travel to the future, but his future
is deeply rooted in the past that is an even more
clear-cut, clearer, and purer. Toy as material
brings more fun and naivety of childhood. Installation
of leather-silhouette play, however, reflects
a life that wavers between reality and fantasy.
Under the nightlight, it is especially charming
that it lulls one into forgetting when and where.
It is sadly beautiful but dazzling, like one's
memory of the long past which sometimes is clear
but other times blurs. If beauty and sadness can
coexist, so do reality and fantasy: one may seek
for reality in fantasy.
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| 1957 |
Born in
Kaohsiung Country, Taiwan. |
| 1969 |
Interested in comic strips and took painting
courses. |
| 1977 |
Graduated
from Kuen-shan High School. |
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| Solo
Exhibitions - |
| 2004 |
"We
Are the World" Main Trend Gallery, Taipei,
Taiwan. |
| 1999 |
"Visions
of Pluralism-Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Beijing,
China, Mountain Art. |
| 1996 |
"Taiwan
from Head to Tail' Taipei Fine Art Museum,
Taipei, New Phase Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan. |
| 1993 |
"The
Count Traveling in Spring" New Phase
Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan. |
| 1991 |
Chungate
Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. |
| 1986 |
K.H.S, Taipei,
Taiwan. |
| 1984 |
"The
World of Vagabond" American Cultural
Center, Taipei. |
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| Group
Exhibition - |
| 2003 |
"Graduations
of Time-Taiwanese Art: Fifty Years Since World
War II" Chia Liu Art Gallery, Taoyuan,
Taiwan. |
| 2002 |
"Fukuoka
Asian Art Triennial" Fukuoka Asian Art
Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
"The Traveler-Six Artists from Taiwan"
Taipei Gallery, Chinese Information and Center,
New York, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung,
Taiwan .
"Oeuvre of Contemporary Art in Taipei
Part I: Critical Reports" Hong-Gah Museum,
Taipei, Taiwan.
"Kaohsiung Art Fair-Kaohsiung Pavilion:
The Myths of Kaohsiung, the Legends of Beating
Dogs" Kaohsiung, Taiwan. |
| 2001 |
"Waves
Striking: One Hundred Years of Taiwanese Arts
"National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
Taichung, Kuandu Fine Arts Museum, Taipei,
Taiwan .
"Beyond the Boundary" Kaohsiung
Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. |
| 1999 |
"Visions
of Pluralism-Contemporary Art in Taiwan. |
| 1998 |
"You
Talk, I Listen" Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
Taiwan, La ferme du Buisson center d'rt contemporain,
Paris, France.
"228 Memorial Exhibition "Taipei
Fine Arts Museum. |
| 1997 |
"47th
Venice Biennial-Taiwan Pavilion: Taiwan, Taiwan,
Facing Faces" Palazzo delle Prigioni,
Venice, Italy. |
| 1996 |
"Taiwan:
Kunst Heute" Ludwig Forum, Germany.
"Asian-Pacific Triennial" Queensland
Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia. |
| 1993 |
"Taiwan
Art" Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei,
Taiwan.
Liberation and Escape-The Joint Exhibition
of Tony Wong and Lee Ming-Tse" Lung-Men
Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
"Legends of Taiwan-Modern Art in Taiwan"
Galleries Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan.
"Taiwanese Contemporary Art" Sidney
Contemporary Art Museum, Sidney, Australia. |
| 1992 |
"Dis/Continuity"
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
"New Phase of Taiwanese Art" New
Phase Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan. |
| 1990 |
"Contemporary
Art Trends" Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
Taipei, Taiwan. |
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| Awards
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| 1981 |
Awarded
the 6th Exhibition of Lion Young Artists. |
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