Open to the public in February 2015, Spot Handcraft Gallery is the one and only building with new aesthetics that fuses traditional culture and modern fashion in the Yingge Old Street with Ceramic Arts. It boasts a century-old well (built in 1905), skywalk, brick walls of kiln, a triple-height courtyard (16 meters), natural lighting, an indoor container restaurant, and creative bottle-shaped lamps lit only in the evenings on weekends.Open to the public in February 2015, Spot Handcraft Gallery is the one and only building with new aesthetics that fuses traditional culture and modern fashion in the Yingge Old Street with Ceramic Arts. It boasts a century-old well (built in 1905), skywalk, brick walls of kiln, a triple-height courtyard (16 meters), natural lighting, an indoor container restaurant, and creative bottle-shaped lamps lit only in the evenings on weekends.
Art collection, creative culture, craft aesthetics, exhibition and performance, tea culture, and handmade food consist of the six main pillars of Spot Handcraft Gallery. All brands are cherry-picked, featuring uniqueness and diversity, and the products entail diverse local cultures from Taiwan, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the U.S.
Located on the third floor of Spot Handcraft Gallery, Spot Arts Center is a spacious and bright professional exhibition hall, where well selected artists exhibit their works. The exhibition is curated based on different themes with a variety of exhibits. Exhibitors are invited to share their process of creation and stories of their works, widely acclaimed by art collectors, experts, and art lovers. You are cordially invited to visit Spot Arts Center.
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EXHIBITION INFORMATION: | 「A Pottery Artist’s Works」 A-Sun Wu Solo Exhibition The uncivilized nature has always resided in the works of Wu A-sun. This nomadic Renaissance man has visited the world’s most remote tribes and learned their customs, including secluded islands in South Pacific. He is also fascinated by primitive art in Africa and Latin America. He is like the son of tall peaks and rapid rivers. Before becoming an artist who manipulates various materials and mastering lines and colors, he spent his childhood and teenage years among Taiwan’s mountains and forests. Later, he felt the call of art and vowed to convey his experiences. Leaving the turmoil of society and rising above political divides, Wu A-sun’s style lean toward expressionism. In this artistic movement that values subjectivity, Emile Nolde of Die Brücke (founded in Dresden in 1905) was a leading figure. He once stated that there is no rule in aesthetics, only the intuition of artists. However, Wu A-sun’s intuition captures the ambiguous memories of the primitivism of the land, meaning that the aboriginal elements in his works are embodied in extremely modern expressions.
「Smear Glazed - Gilt Blue and White Porcelain」 Paloma Chang Creative Arts Exhibition
As an art form of thousands of years of history, ceramics has become more than functional vessels, applied art, or a table ornament for filling the emptiness. It also contains a kind of vocabulary, uttering geological terms with its composition - oxides, kaolinite, quartz, clay... Coming from the land, rocks, sand, and minerals, they are the fruit of thousands of years of erosion and sedimentation. By kneading and transforming the elements of metals, wood, water, earth, fire, and wind, the artist created the delicately nuanced “Water Drop Series.” The works take their form from the curves and momentum in calligraphy. On the white clay body, sometimes using delicate blue color, sometimes using floral lines, and sometimes using capillary action to create flowing lines, she created visual experiences on both micro and macro scales. Inheriting the legacy of the glorious and groundbreaking Eastern ceramics, she insists on humble, meticulous hand painting, studies the attributes of the materials she uses, carefully selects glaze and oxides, and rigorously overseeing the stages of high-temperature firing, because every factor is critical to the result of the work. The contour of the water drop-shaped porcelain exhibits meticulousness, suggests an observation of a kind of mysterious symbol, and even echoes distant memories of old tribes. Of course, everything here is a fantastical sight. On the tall porcelain, we see vibrant colors flowing downward and lead-color dots among them, expressing the artist’s feelings. We also see silky pebbles on which swirling colors, flowers, and algae are painted. Everything exist in a natural state of harmony. |