Hsi Shih-Pin‧The Memory Palace

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Hsi Shih-Pin‧The Memory Palace

2014 / 09 / 06 Sat.

2014 / 11 / 02 Sun.

10:00 - 18:00

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Artists

Artworks

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The Memory Palace includes thirty artworks that present Hsi’s unique interpretation of art formation and the idiosyncratic application of diverse space and atmosphere. The entire exhibition has enumerated different states of the overlapping, misplacement, and disassembly of Hsi’s private memories, personal imagination and real life. In the five exhibition rooms on the museum’s second floor, Hsi’s splendid and diversified creations have been categorized into five implicitly related themes: “Image in Memory,” “Universe,” “Home,” “Imagination: Beginning of the Body and the Animal,” and “Circus Maximus.” Among them, the "Image in Memory" leads the viewers to read and connect the memory elements provided by the artist with non-narrative contents and a three-channel video. “Universe” combines several abstract geometric shapes in an understated dark space. This design presents the artist’s imagination of the city and the universe as well as his hesitation for the uncertain future. “Home,” with red as its key color, is originated from the artist’s childhood fantasy and extension of scenes in ordinary life. “Imagination: Beginning of the Body and the Animal” echoes the artist’s change of career from spatial design to artistic creation. The artist deliberately uses blueprints often seen in spatial designs, which remind the viewers of rational planning, to delineate his free-willing imagination and personal memory. “Circus Maximus,” installed in the high-ceiling space of Room 201, presents the artist’s persistent pursuit of an ideal horse image in recent years. Seven horses of different materials, forms and themes, such as Horse of Knowledge, Horse of Love, Gallop of the Zodiac Steed, reveal the development of the artist’s diverse thinking and skills in art expressions. In addition, the artistic texture and aesthetic taste shown in the works also reflect the artist’s ambition to challenge, break through, and construct his self.

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Artists

Hsi Shi-Pin

Born in 1977 in Taipei, Hsi Shi-Pin received his MFA degree of Plastic Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2007; he now lives and works in Taipei. Hsi has won the “Exhibition of the Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan—3D Creation Series 2008 Selected Prize,” “International Wood Sculpture Competition of Taiwan 2008 Selected Prize,” “Kaohsiung Awards 2008,” “Taipei Arts Award 2010,” “2007 Outstanding Art Prize, TNUA,” and a project grant from the Asian Cultural Council. His works have been exhibited in Beijing, Shanghai, South Korea, and the United States. National Culture and Arts Foundation and other domestic and international public and private institutes have collected his works. In addition, he has participated in many public art projects and international artist-in-residence programs.

Hsi has been one of the first artists that works in contemporary art and fashion design at the same time. Starting off from the structures and morphology in ordinary life, his works combine his study of classical anatomy and the application of traditional craftsmanship. The artworks sufficiently reveal the compatibility of his mythic imagination, poetic implications and crafting skills, stimulating viewers’ perception as well as the “memory” embedded in their brain. His early works mainly focus on the imagination and the line of thoughts derived from how human beings interact and integrate with various environments at different time and space. His recent large-scale 3D sculptural works reversely apply some contemporary digital imaging techniques such as misappropriation, duplication, collage and synthesis. The results happen to respond to the united vision of humanity that artists have endeavored to achieve since Renaissance by amalgamating creations with the cores of humanities, such as the observation on reality, exploration of knowledge, allusion learning, using of imagination, and forming one’s philosophy.

Artworks

Imagination: The Beginning of the Body and the Animal

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