







Curator | HSIAO Chong-Ray
2021.01.24
Lecture | 14:30-16:30
Speaker | HSIAO Chong-Ray
Opening | 16:30
2021.03.06
A Simple yet Unusual Realm ─ TENG Pu-Chun's Ink Fantasy Symposium
Venue | Chini Gallery
13:30-17:00
• Keynote I
Speaker | WU Chieh-Hsiang / Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, National Changhua University of Education
• Keynote II
Speaker | CHEN Chiao
Director and Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts
• Keynote III
Speaker | Emerson WANG / Curator & Art Critic
• Panel Discussion
Moderator | HSIAO Chong-Ray / Art Historian & Emeritus Professor, Department of History, National Cheng Kung University
Speaker | WU Chieh-Hsiang CHEN Chiao Emerson WANG
17:00-17:30
Exhibition Catalogue Launch
A Simple yet Unusual Realm – TENG Pu-Chun’s Ink Fantasy
Curator/ HSIAO Chong-Ray
Teng Pu-Chu, has led a hermitesque life in Hualien for nearly twenty years after graduating from National Taiwan Academy of Arts, immersing himself in self-observation and dialogues with mountains, rocks, trees and clouds in nature.
The Chinese modern ink painting movement launched in the 1960s emphasized on creating new forms of ink painting with automatic techniques vastly different from traditional brushwork of the so-called “national painting,” and ushered in a new and rich chapter in Taiwan’s post-war modern art history. Contrarily, born in 1957, Teng has utilized dense and diversified “brushwork” to create his magical landscape that mixes ancient and modern styles, transforming Hualien’s natural beauty as well as its sky and water into a simple yet unusual realm in Taiwan’s art scene of contemporary ink painting.
Teng is known for using unadorned, mesmerizing techniques to produce a splendidly magical realm characterized by glistening light and rolling clouds. At the same time, he adds twistingly metamorphosing and endlessly replicating formal elements in his work, bringing to mind the unpredictable extraterrestrial world in contemporary sci-fi movie. However, Teng’s work does not focus on constructing terrifying fictional scenes but centering on deep dialogues and purposeful integration of the inner world and the boundless cosmos, exuding a sense of Buddhist wisdom and poetic beauty.
Teng has been a stunning case in the art scene in recent years. The name of “Hualien” – an intriguing place also called “Lienhua” (lotus), “Huelan” (surging currents) and “Shuiyang” (brimming water) – conveys much mysteriousness, and it is such a place that has nurtured the artist and given birth to his art, which is as much localized as it is global – this simple yet unusual realm created by Teng will always capture our eyes.