FLY ME TO THE MOON

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Artists' Profile

Cheng-Liang Li ∕ 1986 Keelung

Cheng-Liang Li’s Outer Space and Moon series makes use of complete or incomplete spatial installations to illustrate his observations of the society. Our senseless and cold social environment is visualized as a unique and lonely galaxy in his work. In the individual space pod, he tries to communicate with the external world through the weakest electric waves. Even if there is no one to receive his signals, he still quietly operates the space pod and builds dreams that are endlessly forming and fading.

He graduated from the Master Program of the Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts in 2013, and now lives and works in Tainan. He co-founded the Fuxinghen Studio with his friends at an apartment in Fuxinggang in Taipei, and experimented with the possibilities of art through humorous co-creations. He has been using diverse media to make art, integrating the aesthetics of craft and art to study three-dimensional forms and spatial environment. Focusing on each moment in life, his work serves as a comment on the possibilities that life offers.

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Tang Tang(Shou-Nan Tang) ∕ 1966 Hualien

Tang Tang’s pottery sculpture shows time-honored, rusty texture. Using clay, iron glaze and variations in temperature, he represents the rust of iron objects, children’s faces and flying vessels. Taking a closer look at his astronaut boys, each of them seems to be contemplating on his individual trip into space. None of them seems to know whether he will return in glory or not, but demonstrates his faith in commencing the journey into the unknown and starting a challenging adventure. 

Graduated from Fu-Hsin Arts and Trade School in 1985. After graduation, Tang Tang worked at a publishing house and devoted his time to the art of illustration and the creation of picture books. He has won the Honorary Award of the Asia Biennial of Picture Book Illustration, held solo exhibitions at various galleries and participated in multiple international art exhibitions. Since 2009 onward, he has attempted to break through the existing framework of picture book illustration and exhibited independent illustrative works through regular exhibitions or themed solo exhibitions.

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Wen-Red Tsao ∕ 1964 Taipei

Wen-Red Tsao uses graphic art to exquisitely craft a seemingly ordinary yet non-existent world. In this world, the artist is like a theater director, directing his cartoon characters (performers) to enact his care for all beings the world. He usually adopts a third-person perspective to delineate reality, and appropriates cartoon characters to express his observation of our world. He uses the method of collage in contemporary art to create realistic illusions, which require viewer to read carefully to eventually observe the “truth” in his work. 

He obtained an MFA from Fontbonne University in Missouri, USA in 1995. He majored in ink painting at National Taiwan Academy Of Arts, and later pursued further education in America after graduation, where he was deeply inspired by Western aesthetics. After he returned to Taiwan, he worked as an art administrative professional at various art institutions and organizations, including Xuan Men Art Center, Miniatures Museum of Taiwan, Taiwan Museum Association and Huashan 1914 Creative Park, quietly but steadfastly facilitating Taiwan’s art and cultural development. In his private time, he assumed the role of an artist and created his own artistic creation; eventually, he became a full-time artist.

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Shi-Chao Lai ∕ 1985 Taichung

Sound artist Shi-Chao Lai has always felt anxious and worried about the 3C waste that human beings produce. His concern leads him to create the sound piece, Point Nemo. The title of the work is inspired by the character Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by French novelist Jules Verne. In Latin, the term “nemo” means “no one,” and the name of the artwork denotes a lifeless location at the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility that has become a cemetery of large man-made waste. Nowadays, things are thrown away mostly because they are “outdated” rather than “broken,” and thus, a large, unimaginable amount of 3C waste has been created. In Point Nemo, the artist collects fragments from 3C waste to build a satellite, hoping to explore the “point nemo” in people’s heart. 

Having engaged in the art field for many years, he has developed expansive love for arts and culture and has collaborated with artists of different disciplines. His sound creations mostly use materials from the environment and are combined with guitar and effects generated from synthesizer. He focuses on socio-political themes, and sometimes adopts an introspective viewpoint to contemplate on life and the universe.

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