Lecture Series on Bauhaus Centenary and the 1st Memorial Anniversary of Da-Hong Wang| Theme 3: The Chimera Group and the Bauhaus—The Bauhaus in Post-War America + Remembering the Chimera Group
Speakers
Chao-Lee Kuo Founder, Taiwan Alliance for Arch Modernity
Location
DH Café (No. 153, Section 3, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City)
Fee
One lecture for $500, including special snacks (sandwiches, desserts, drinks), and 10% discount on event book purchases.
Event Content
Wang was fond of the arts, and in the past, he often invited the arts and crafts community at the time when he built his home in Nanchou and Honglujia. Like Bauhaus, he organized a small society called “Chimera” (named after a lion and lamb-tailed hybrid monster from mythology). Those who frequented the time included Hui Changhui (music), Guo Lianghui (literature), Yang Yingfeng (sculpture), Lang Jingshan (photography), Sidi Dejin (painting), and others. Wang, who initially founded the association, described his efforts with the subtitle “A Bauhaus Organization in Free China”, and can be seen to be deeply influenced by the likes of Grobetz and Mises.
This year marks the centenary of Bauhaus 1919-2019, a special theme, “Chimera and Bauhaus,” will introduce the relationship between the two as the beginning of this series of literary activities. This talk is “Postwar American Boahos+Memory Chimera”.
