Atelier Guided Tour | Alicja Kwade - Hypothetical Reality Solo Exhibition

2020-05-24

Sun

14:30

15:30

Speakers

Sung-Chih Chen, contemporary artist and adjunct assistant professor at National Changhua University of Education

Locations

Winsing Art Place (1/F. 6, Lane 10, Lane 180, Section 6, Minquan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei City)

Fees

$300 (1 drink included)

Ages

Unrestricted

Introduction

Between April and July 2020, Winsing Art Place presented German artist Alicja Kwade’s first solo exhibition in Taiwan. She reinterprets concepts of time, space, and matter through mathematical, scientific, and philosophical ways by creating illusion-like sculptures, installations, or images. Her work often involves reflected and repeated masses and sounds, using these elements to create immersive and experiential spaces while encouraging viewers to question what is true.

On May 24, Winsing Art Place invited artist Sung-Chih Chen, who also specializes in mixed-media spatial tallation, to lead the audience in observing the work from space and in guiding viewers to rediscover it from an artist’s perspective.

Courtesy Winsing Arts Foundation. Photo © ANPIS FOTO

Exhibition view: Untitled, 2022. Photo © Gerardo Landa & Eduardo Lopez - GLR Estudio

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Artist Biography

Alicja Kwade

Kwade was born in Poland in 1979. She moved to West Germany with her family later and graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2005. Currently, she lives and works in Berlin. Her most famous work is the large-scale sculpture named "WeltenLinie", which was shown in 57th Venice Biennale 2017. Two-way mirrors and pairs of objects intentionally placed were used to compose the installation. When visitors walk through its steel structure, the objects in it will jump out from the framework of reality and move to the framework of the work while being observed in different angles of view, which may be a revolution to the way visitors adopt for reading and understanding the objects contained in the work. In 2019, Kwade's works have also been exhibited at the Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in Setouchi Triennale 2019. They are now collected by some renowned art museums, including Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Boros Collection / Bunker Berlin.

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