The World of Fairy Tales
KUO Chao-Yin's Solo Exhibition
October 19th ~ December 1st, 2009
The artist uses both hands to weave the threads of hemp then create a sentimental space involved personal emotion. Weaving the threads to shape the art works into various giant plants、 then dye and construct themselves. This installation brings the audiences to the realm of fantasy, it almost feels like to enter the world of fairy tales. Every art work presents colourful and magnific shapes to guide the imaginative energy of consciousness, also into the poetic realm of fantasy. This work is installed a inner space to reveal a childhood playground we used to be familiar with. Although the time goes by quickly, everyone can still maintain a secret garden in mind and to sense this colourful garden through the imaginative infections and extensible memories.
About Chao-Yin KUO
Ms. Kuo graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with a M.F.A. degree. She specializes in mixed media arts, spatial arts and sculptural arts. Kuo\'s works often reflect her emphasis on the human body inspired by her own physical feeling and life experience.
Kuo is fond of the repetitive techniques when approaching the fabrics for her creations. The accumulation of time and the repetitive traces of hand-feel build up a tremendous energy into her works. Through the connection between the fabrics, human, life and environment, and the dialogue between the objects and the space, she is attentive to the states whenever and wherever a human-being is, such as moving, stopping, switching and exchanging. By traveling, she observes different dimensions of the societies and cultures as well as the states of mind under various circumstances. She makes her life confront with her own art works as a mirror between herself and the surroundings. The art work series are also the manifesto of the natural body movement.
Kuo devotes herself in expressing the beauty of texture and the profound meanigs of the fabric art. She enjoys working on the materials with her bare hands and choose soft sculpturing as the major form of her works.
Kuo has received numerous honors for her talent, including The Taiwan Art Exhibition (2005) and The New Perspective Art in Taiwan (2008). Her recent solo exhibtions in Taipei are \"Colorful Garden\" at 435 International Artist Village (2009) and \"The World of Fairy Tales\" at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts and at the Taishin Holdings Tower (2009).
