Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Installation Arts for the Year of Ox at the Taishin Tower Main Entrance

Welcoming the Chinese New Year, the Taishin Financial Holdings is dressing up its headquarter with the paper-cuts works for such a special occasion. 

The Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture once again invites Geng Zhen WU, the paper-cut artist, to create a 3-dimensional art project with the theme of ox. The project features “The Legendary Ox” in the main visual accompanied by other traditional lucky symbols such as “Bat” and “Flower of Fleshfingered Citron”.  Furthermore, it is such an out-of-box creativity that the artist builds a paper plane in the installation, a protruding touch to highlight the festive atmosphere by twisting the assonance of two Chinese terms: “new opportunity” and “new plane”. 

The 29 year-old WU, Geng-Zhen graduated from Architecture Department at Shih-chien University.  His interest in the 3-dimensional formation can be traced to his college life when he often used paper-cuts for the experiments of light and shadow. In 2006, he received the grants of CloudGate Wanderer Project that allowed him traveling to the Northern Xianxi, China to conduct a fieldwork study of the folk window paper-cuts.  Since coming back to Taiwan, he has worked as a stage designer for Golden Bough Theatre and Ming-hwa-yuan Taiwanese Opera Troupe, developing the sculptural works which express the Chinese mountain and water imagery by adopting layers of wooden boards.