Hanart TZ Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the new exhibition “MONUMENTS” on Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 2pm to 6pm. This special group show features monumental works by artists from different generations and with conceptually diverse practices: YEH Shih-Chiang 葉世強 (1926-2012), LEUNG Kui Ting 梁巨廷 (b. 1945), HU Xiancheng 胡 項 城 (b. 1950), YANG Jiechang 楊 詰 蒼 (b.1956), LU Dadong 魯大東 (b. 1973), Howie TSUI 徐浩恩 (b. 1978), CHOW Chun Fai 周俊輝 (b. 1980) and the art collective BOLOHO 菠蘿 核 (est. 2019).

The three years of COVID-19 redefined the cycle of an era, separated nation-states, and divided regions. The global carnival of neoliberalism and the acceleration of IT technology have caused a pivotal turn towards an unknown historical destiny. The new art that emerged since the 1990s is now defined as belonging to a past era. However, the shape of the present is constantly being defined, just as its mission and memories are constantly being reshaped. The monument is a marker of space and time. This exhibition includes both new works and selections from the past. “MONUMENTS” is not predicated on volume, but rather on the idea that the macroscopic view is achieved by critical icons that define the times and open up the present.

Exhibition runs till 26 July 2025.

(Translation by Valerie C. Doran)

Legendary Taiwanese painter YEH Shih-Chiang (1926-2012) experienced the turmoils of war and the turbulent vicissitudes of the times, but through it all he travelled his own uncompromising creative path. YEH’s response to the great civilizational changes he witnessed was to create paintings that embodied a spiritual aesthetic of purity and transcendence. Through his art YEH Shih-Chiang connects to the cosmic space-time of the traditional literati. In the oil painting The Yeh Shih-Chiang Art Museum (2006) and the ink painting Misty White Building (2002), architectural structures are turned into civilisational symbols of a dignified human world that can consort in harmony with heaven and earth.

LEUNG Kui Ting (b. 1945)’s most important innovation lies in transforming the genes of traditional landscape painting through the visual language of the digital age. The ubiquitous screens of the Global Positioning System have quietly and relentlessly transformed human visual imagination. In his landscapes LEUNG Kui Ting creates a new kind of spatial aesthetics by appropriating the geometrical coordination lines of the digital screen and using them to update the brushwork language for mountains and rocks: in this way inserting them within the structural space of Chinese traditional landscape art. Leung’s twelve-panel painting Roaming Vision (2018) employs his innovative style to construct a grand panoramic vista with contemporary imagination.