■Fragments and Echoes—Suling WANG Solo Exhibition
📍 CHINI Gallery
2026.05.01-06.21
▍Artist Talk：05.01 Fri. 15:00
▍Speaker：Suling WANG×Vincent Lin (General Manager of CHINI Gallery)
▍Opening：05.01 Fri. 16:00
▍Book Launch：05.31 Sun. 15:00
▍Venue：CHINI Gallery (1F, No.48,Ln.128, Jingye 1st Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City)
📍 Mezzo Art Museum
2026.04.25-07.25
▍Artist Talk：04.25 Sat. 15:00
▍Lecture：06.06 Sat. 15:00
▍Speaker：Chen Kuang-Yi (Professor of National Taiwan University of Arts)
▍Book Launch：06.06 Sat. 16:30
▍Venue：Mezzo Art Museum (No. 80, Sec. 2, Changrong Rd., East Dist., Tainan City)
CHINI GALLERY is pleased to announce Fragments and Echoes, an exhibition of paintings by the Taiwanese artist SULING WANG. Featuring a selection of paintings created over the last three years in the studio at her childhood home in Qingshui District, Taichung. Throughout this productive period, Wang has continued her inquiry into abstraction with work in which sparseness and density, restraint and freedom coexist and shift, expanding the formal field to include the universal and the personal, and reflecting on local and global environmental change.
Looking at this visually diverse body of work, there is a clear sense of time and space, and a subtheme of “the seasons” slowly emerges. The first is formed by a series of paintings titled Maolin, referring to the place in the south of Taiwan, which is famous for the large number of hibernating butterflies that inhabit its landscape during winter. It is also where the artist’s father worked in forestry management, riding his motorbike long distances along dirt roads to stay there over long periods, forming absences through her childhood. These paintings draw on local flora and fauna and integrate with colourfully layered abstractions.
Then the theme shifts to spring with a group of large scale paintings composed of multiple panels (including works more than 6 metres in length) titled The Awakening of the Insects. The title of the series refers to Jingzhe, the term of the solar calendar when the hibernating insects are said to be awakened by thunderstorms and signal the beginning of warmer weather. The surface of these paintings carries a structural “tangling” of lines and brushwork that appear to negotiate, snag and open up space, producing crossings, knots and loops across the canvas.
The visual grammar of Suling Wang’s paintings is one of the gathering and scattering, dispersing and swarming of forms and the vocabulary is one of rocks, ridgelines and mountains: strata suggesting geological duration (layering through time, like paint), clouds and mists (evoking memory, spatial or temporal distance or ambiguity), Fragments and Echoes (perceptual phenomena experienced through repetition and delay). The mountain and its meaning is an accumulation rather than a singular form. This is how the artist parses and bridges the biographical with the phenomenological, and invites us on her journey, perhaps we will catch sight of the “waking up” of a butterfly.
