Plates-2

Non-Objects

"Cyclical planes" and "absolute erroneous objects" could not be reconciled with both perspective and actual images. By 1980 I was making a kind of painting I termed "nonobjects" that had more variety in outward appearance. At the same time I also sought to bring out the fore-aft relationship between non-objects and backgrounds, so that I might even use shadowing and textured expression. But this was a difficult task as non-objects in the pictures multiplied individually, so that even the background would become a conflicting space. Moreover, using the illusionary devices of "being and nothingness" and "solid and emptiness," objects and spaces could envelop each other in turn, yet it remained difficult to achieve the effect of cyclical space. Nevertheless, this task started to point me towards composition featuring three-dimensional "deep illusion." (Written by Su Hsin-tien and translated by David J. Toman)

太平洋的晨曦照射到被四度空間所震盪的非物體 The Early Pacific Dawn Shines upon the Throes of Four Dimensional Space
油畫、棉布 Oil on Cotton 192 x 1028cm 1983
藝術家自藏 Artist Collection 97 98




非物體的世界 World of Non-Objects
油畫、棉布 Oil on Cotton 257 x 576cm
藝術家自藏 Artist Collection