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Hao-Yun Tung - Represented by Arcade Gallery
( Taiwan, 1971 - present )
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Artist: Hao-Yun Tung ( Taiwan, 1971 - present ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Post Modern Art, Contemporary Asian Art
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Biography: Life is a series of linked and constantly transforming images. These images contain intent, referring to the basic model constructed from one's own circumstances, while giving shape to personality and developing into one's life view.
However, at the crossroads of space and time is a constant and irreversible flow. Images unceasingly create life, yet they are always vanishing; man is all too easily situated in a state of having lost his way. Therefore, creations become a means of attempting to turn back the passage of time and of reversing fate, in order to assert one's own existence.
Imagery is the fundamental component of visual contemplation. The expanse of visual contemplation, in turn, is rooted in the amount of individual inspiration, and in the depth of imagery interpretation. Different levels of the soul evoke different levels of imagery; conversely, different levels of imagery touch different levels of the soul. And the act of drawing - this is the rebirth of images.
In the course of imagery creation, different conditions of life are expressed through different lexicons of imagery. When one creates life through the medium of imagery, the concrete, the abstract, the classical, the modern, and the aesthetic assume an intertwined coexistence, resembling a mirror which reflects the face of one's own intrinsic soul. I have always believed that, in the creative process, not being partial to any state of consciousness, not deliberately seeking change but blissfully innovating, and being true to one's internal state, are the most precious qualities of earning an existence through creation.
Beauty is an eternal joy. Internal driving forces behind art might adopt Truth as a goal, or Benevolence as a label, but in the end, all such forces convert Beauty. Artistic expression may bear the weight of history, philosophy, literature, and/or the state of society; but in the end it is Beauty which is the core basis of art. That being as it may, in these pluralistic and chaotic times, the meaning of art has been greatly broadened, and Beauty is no longer the only value. When the over-abundance of adolescent forms of expression are broadly accepted as "art," both creator and viewer are often forced into a paradox of self-justification, at which point creation then becomes an empty dialectic. Under these circumstances, the creator immediately becomes submerged in artistic core values; and meanings become infinitely broadened in a muddled atmosphere of "equalised standards" which frequently rely on vague and undefined conditions.
In fact what must ultimately be confronted is the question of one's own existence. Despite the abundant multitude of visual imagery, that which cannot be made compatible with one's internal soul has no real meaning for oneself. Therefore, the creation of drawings cannot simply be displays or games of form and colour, but rather, images of life which are continually vanishing - an admission of life.
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Exhibition History: 2004 "Wuchow Nostalgia¡EKinmen's Beauty" - Group Exhibition, Cross-Strait Tri-area Joint Exhibition
2004 Personal Exhibition, Kinmen County Cultural Center; Kinmen, Fukien Province, Republic of China.
2001 "Mountains Into the Ocean" - Group Exhibition, Gallery of National Hsinchu Teachers College and Industrial Technology Research Institute
1988-2004 "Mountains Into the Ocean" - Group Exhibition, Kinmen County Cultural Center; Kinmen, Fukien Province, Republic of China
1996 "Constituency & Dialogue" - Dual Exhibition, Kinmen County Cultural Center; Kinmen, Fukien Province, Republic of China
1996 "The New Wuchow, The New Kinmen¡¨ - Dual Exhibition, National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei
1995 "Feelings of a Swallow" - Group Exhibition, Kinmen County Cultural Center.
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