中間內容區塊
Fake Landscape —— I-Shu Chen Solo Exhibition
2024/07/27 - 2024/10/20

The roles of images between fiction and reality remain the focus in I-Shu Chen's "Fake Landscape" series (2020-2024), with the influence of the Taihu stone, and the Italian artist Luigi Ghirri's photographs of amusement parks. 
Based on the compositions of stacked rocks, the artist applied "rockery" into his paintings. Highlighting the cross-section lines at the base suggests the concept of real and unreal in limbo.
Taking the outbreak of Russia-Ukraine War in 2022 into account, the artist attempted to explore the abstract tug of war between frame and colour in the landscape scenes, thus providing second thoughts on the issues of boundary/ territory and boundary/positioning.
 

Artist
I-Shu Chen

I-Shu Chen, born in 1970 in Taipei, studied at Tung-Hai University, Taichung, the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the Art Academy, Düsseldorf. He has received several scholarships and prices among others: Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum in Hilden, Germany, Moscow Multimedia Museum in Russia, and Artist Village Schöppingen in Germany. He works as lecturer at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter/ Bonn in Germany.