Curator: HE Gui-Yan (Director of Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute)

📌 03/11 Sat
15:00-16:30 Lecture
‧ Presenter │ Hsiao Chong-Ray (Art Historian)
16:30 Opening

📌 04/08 Sat
15:00-16:30 Lecture
‧ Presenter │Chen, Kuang-Yi (Dean of Fine Art College, National Taiwan University of Arts)

Yang Pei-Chen’s figurative sculpture stems from a “meta-text”—that is, he uses ancient books that symbolize Western culture, knowledge and ideas as a starting point of his work. As a carrier of messages, ancient books hold a crucial place in cultural history. They are symbols of culture and knowledge, and at the same time, establish a context closely associated with history, ideologies, cognitive ideas.

Time is an important component that allows the conceptualization of a work to be effective. To Yang Pei-Chen, the conceptualization of time comprises two aspects: one is the time in the physical sense—that is, the consumption of time through the repetition of polishing and coloring guided by simple rules. The other one is the time experienced by people and objects, hands and minds, as well as in labor and through physicality. The latter is the time that can be conceptualized or philosophized.

Yang Pei-Chen has adamantly defended the handcraftedness, materiality, and visuality of the sculptural art in this age of picturization and digitization. The labor work is repeated day after day, and the handcraftedness is reiterated continuously. The objective of Yang’s creative approach is to confer a new meaning on “representation” or “the figurative,” which is an aesthetic experience in response to the digital age – “hyperrealism.”

— From HE Gui-Yan《The Figurative Conceptualized —Yang Pei-Chen’s Sculpture》