A Multi-dimensional World
A Multi-dimensional World
Publication Date：09/01/2007
Byline：SUSAN YU
Byline：SUSAN YU
(Full text originally posted in Taiwan Review 台灣評論 2007 September)
Link→http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=24524&CtNode=119
PHOTOS COURTESY OF SU HSIN-TIEN, DOLBY TU AND LIN TZUNG-SHING
Su Hsin-tien does not appreciate being compared to M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the famous Dutch graphic artist known to millions for his drawings of impossible structures. " I have already gone beyond Escher's ways of creating illusions," says the 67-year-old native from Yunlin, in central Taiwan. "I am able to draw from all angles and perspectives."
Su's confidence comes from 40 years of hard work and the study of modern science. He is among the pioneers who introduced Modernism into Taiwan. Fascinated by the relationship between space and time, Su began to explore it both in his mind and on linen and cotton in the early 1970s. To aid his work, he studied modern physics, math, philosophy and even Buddhist and Taoist thinking, and came to form his own understanding of Western cosmology. In addition to bright colors, special techniques such as spatial displacement, rotating spaces, distorting objects and a multitude of perspectives are often used in his paintings of "cyclical space."
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum recently held a retrospective exhibition featuring 53 pieces of Su's cyclical space oil paintings done between 1972 and 2006. Viewers of his works, which can be up to 10 meters long, were amazed by his multi-perspective, labyrinth-like drawings that go against one's preconceptions of the universe. Heated discussions were thus spurred among the viewers, academics included, about his unique art form.
Su says his works seek to probe "the mutual reliance of time and space, solid and emptiness in the universe, and the reciprocal ties between the internal and the external." Apart from the visual uncertainty and ambiguity that his works conjure up, perhaps what matters most is getting art-lovers to scratch their heads and ponder over their own view of the world.
Su's confidence comes from 40 years of hard work and the study of modern science. He is among the pioneers who introduced Modernism into Taiwan. Fascinated by the relationship between space and time, Su began to explore it both in his mind and on linen and cotton in the early 1970s. To aid his work, he studied modern physics, math, philosophy and even Buddhist and Taoist thinking, and came to form his own understanding of Western cosmology. In addition to bright colors, special techniques such as spatial displacement, rotating spaces, distorting objects and a multitude of perspectives are often used in his paintings of "cyclical space."
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum recently held a retrospective exhibition featuring 53 pieces of Su's cyclical space oil paintings done between 1972 and 2006. Viewers of his works, which can be up to 10 meters long, were amazed by his multi-perspective, labyrinth-like drawings that go against one's preconceptions of the universe. Heated discussions were thus spurred among the viewers, academics included, about his unique art form.
Su says his works seek to probe "the mutual reliance of time and space, solid and emptiness in the universe, and the reciprocal ties between the internal and the external." Apart from the visual uncertainty and ambiguity that his works conjure up, perhaps what matters most is getting art-lovers to scratch their heads and ponder over their own view of the world.
Su Hsin-tien's blog:
http://su-cyclical-space-painting.blogspot.com/ (some text is in English)
Autumn Earth Spinning
oil on linen,172x209cm,1991
Interior with Rotated Gravity
oil on linen, 130 x 172 cm, 2004
oil on linen, 130 x 172 cm, 2004
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1 artist photo and 10 plates Printed in“Taiwan Review” September 2007
(PP.48~55)
Su Hsin-tien
At his Taipei Home 2007
World of Non-Objects
oil on cotton 257x576cm 1984 (pp.48~49)
The Early Pacific Dawn Shines upon the Throes of Four Dimensional Space
Oil on Cotton 192 x 1028cm 1983 (pp.50~51)
Look Out! Don't Get Sucked Into the Black Hole
Oil on Linen 173 x 173cm 2006 (p.50)
Joined Curved Plane
Oil on Linen 173 x 173cm 2005 (pp.50~51)
Circular But Void
Oil on Cotton 121 x 167cm 1972 (p.52)
Summer Dusk, Heaven and Earth Switch Places
Oil on Cotton 192 x 257cm 1989 (p.52)
Flowing Land and River
Oil on Linen 172 x 209cm 1999 (p.54)
Double Heaven and Earth
Oil on Linen 73 x 91cm 2006 (p.54)
Interior with Rotated Gravity
Oil on Linen 130 x 172cm 2004 (pp.54~55)
(PP.48~55)
Su Hsin-tien
At his Taipei Home 2007
World of Non-Objects
oil on cotton 257x576cm 1984 (pp.48~49)
The Early Pacific Dawn Shines upon the Throes of Four Dimensional Space
Oil on Cotton 192 x 1028cm 1983 (pp.50~51)
Look Out! Don't Get Sucked Into the Black Hole
Oil on Linen 173 x 173cm 2006 (p.50)
Joined Curved Plane
Oil on Linen 173 x 173cm 2005 (pp.50~51)
Circular But Void
Oil on Cotton 121 x 167cm 1972 (p.52)
Summer Dusk, Heaven and Earth Switch Places
Oil on Cotton 192 x 257cm 1989 (p.52)
Autumn Earth Spinning
Oil on Linen 172 x 209cm 1991 (p.53)
Oil on Linen 172 x 209cm 1991 (p.53)
Flowing Land and River
Oil on Linen 172 x 209cm 1999 (p.54)
Double Heaven and Earth
Oil on Linen 73 x 91cm 2006 (p.54)
Interior with Rotated Gravity
Oil on Linen 130 x 172cm 2004 (pp.54~55)
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Gostei muito desse post e seu blog é muito interessante, vou passar por aqui sempre =) Depois dá uma passada lá no meu site, que é sobre o CresceNet, espero que goste. O endereço dele é http://www.provedorcrescenet.com . Um abraço.
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