Media Release
February 29 2008
Best of Taiwan a Festival highlight at Samstag Museum
A stunning exhibition of video, photography and installation by a group
of emerging young contemporary artists from Taiwan opens to the public
today at UniSA’s Anne
and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, as part of this year’s
Adelaide
Bank Festival of Arts.
The exhibition, titled
Penumbra: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, explores the shifting spaces
between past and present in a country that continues to undergo dynamic
cultural, economic and socio-political change.
The works were commissioned by the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
specifically for the Festival and will be the first time the five
artists have shown their work in Australia.
Director of the Samstag Museum of Art,
Erica Green, is delighted to present this exceptional exhibition in
partnership with the Adelaide Festival and curator Sophie McIntyre.
“The Samstag Museum has a wonderful capacity to present exhibitions of
considerable scale and ambition and we are especially interested in
looking at projects that bring the riches of the world’s visual arts to
Adelaide," she said.
“Penumbra will add a fascinating cultural difference to the Festival’s
visual arts program, from which a major international visual arts
project has been missing in previous years.
“The University is keen to offer the South Australian community greater
cultural variety and alternatives at Festival time and exhibitions as
large and as costly as Penumbra can only be realised through such
partnerships.
Key pieces of the exhibition include the beautiful Flov”er, by Huang Po-Chinh,
which captures the painterly and rhythmic motions of a flower in space
and a confronting 9 metre black and white photographic print by Kuo
I-Chen, portraying an apocalyptic world in which worlds collide as part
of his Survivor series.
The exhibition also features Wang Ya-hui’s work, Visitor, which received
international critical acclaim at the 2007
LOOP
International Video Art Festival in Barcelona in 2007.
Open daily throughout the Festival from 10am – 5pm and continuing until
April 4.
Contacts for interview
- Erica Green, Director Samstag Museum mobile 0438 821 239 email erica.green@unisa.edu.au
Media contact
- Linda office (08) 8302 0965 mobile 0411 257 029 email linda.hein@unisa.edu.au