Chen Hui-Chiao's When the Spheres Merge in Colors for a Large Wall is currently on view at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum until 21 December 2025, as part of the exhibition "We Always Need to Create New Stories for the World", curated by Jo Hsiao.
Dates: 18 January 2025 - 21 December 2025
Location: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, South Entrance
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Curated in response to the unique architecture of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum's South Entrance, the works on display play with dichotomies of transparency and opacity to parallel the surrounding glass-and-steel structure. Expressing the subtle flow of time, the exhibition attempts to invoke a pure intellectuality and also a pure sensoriality. These two orientations are diametrically opposite in philosophical outlook, yet unexpectedly, they form a certain metaphysical dialogue.
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When the Spheres Merge in Colors for a Large Wall, 2024
Ping-pong balls, SPCC, SPHC, PVDF spray paint, steel plates, chairs
Dimensions variable
In this new work, Chen incorporates spheres into the original color structure of Ellsworth Kelly‘s 1951 masterpiece Colors for a Large Wall, extending it through translation – creating a fluid consciousness that expands rapidly like overlapping cosmic bubbles in a vast airflow. I the same way as space informs geometry and time speaks to psychology; This piece is a tribute to the summoning of memories, the pursuit of the past and the reappearance of time from its reverse flow.
Text courtesy of the artist.
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Chen Hui Chiao, "When the Spheres Merge in Colors for a Large Wall" | Taipei Fine Arts Museum
