TKG+ (Taipei and Beijing) is pleased to announce its participation at Art Fair Tokyo 2012 (March 30 – April 1, 2012, Discover Asia, Booth G06) with a presentation of works by Charwei TSAI (b. 1980) and WU Chi-Tsung (b. 1981) that attend to the ephemeral aspects of nature, and bring to the fore spirituality, commemoration, and the traditions of landscape painting.
Charwei Tsai will present a new work, A Dedication to the Victims of the Tsunami of March 11, 2011. Tsai will collect seashells along the coast of Japan and inscribe them with the seminal Buddhist text the Heart Sutra, which has been pivotal to the artist’s practice and is taught throughout schools in Japan. The fair’s attendees are invited to participate in the project and have the option of either writing their own blessings or transcribing the Heart Sutra onto the provided shells. Part of the proceeds from the sale of the work will be donated to Tsunami relief organizations.
Wu Chi-Tsung will present two works from his new series Landscape in the Mist (2012), which emerged from his observations of Western and traditional Chinese landscape paintings. To Wu, there is something else beyond the depiction of a landscape that draws these works ever closer. In the series Landscape in the Mist he probes these potential connections, and reinterprets ink and oil paintings through the medium of video, blurring the assumptions about media and cultural specificities of landscape works.
Tsai and Wu have exhibited widely internationally, most recently this year in the exhibition A l’ombre des sens at the Maison Salvan, Labège, France. Tsai has held solo exhibitions in Bogota, Hong Kong, Paris, Taipei, and Sydney, and her work has been included in the 2011 Yokohama Triennale, the 2011 Ruhrtriennale, and the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane (2009). In 2006 Wu was a finalist for the Artes Mundi Award and his works have been exhibited in Ventriloquized Voices at the Gwangju Museum of Art (2010), 6th Shanghai Biennale (2006), and The Elegance of Silence at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2005).