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2013-09-23

Treasure Hunt – September 28, 2013~ October 27, 2013@Frontier Art • X-Power Gallery, Taipei

Treasure Hunt – Group Exhibition of Taiwan and Mainland Artists

Hunting for Artworks with Great Potentials by Promising Talents

Time: September 28, 2013~ October 27, 2013

Venue: Frontier Art • X-Power Gallery, Taipei

X-Power Gallery will present a newly curated exhibition – “Treasure Hunt” – on September 28, 2013, running through October 27, 2013. This exhibition brings together artists with great market potentials from Taiwan and Mainland China, including Singway, Mou Lu, Lee Hongshan, Yu Zuguang, GOGO YU, MANIHOO, Zhang Miao, Xcun, Chen Jun, Chen Li-Wei, Luna Chen, Ling Ling, Yachi Lai, and Coana Sebastião.

This exhibition features artists who have developed their own art languages and distinguished styles. The members of the internationally recognized art trio Ma Sing Ling, for example, will participate with their individual creation.

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Ling Ling, who has established her reputation in photography, will display oil paintings manifesting the savor of cutout effects. With her artwork selected into Le Salon d’Automne, one of the most important art exhibitions held in Paris, Singway uses multimedia to illustrate various facets of the inner world. MANIHOO, winner of “Best of Year 2010 by Marziart International Gallery,” combines drawing with her use of banknotes to create a series characterized by liveliness and vitality.

Sinway_The Dog with a Moon

Ling Ling_Beyond Color／Smiling at All Times

Manihoo_I'm Not a Master／Lady in Shower

With painting knives, Chen Li-Wei manages beautifully to bring out a sentiment of warming femininity from the thickness of layering colors. Mou Lu, whose works win favor from female collectors, creates a series with bright eyes to convey the inner motion, while continuing to draw on the motif of flower and woman. Inspired by Zhang Da-Ch’ien’s magnificent landscape painting, Yachi Lai integrates elements of modern architecture and presents her latest creations as part of her “In Light of Chang Dai-Ch'ien‧The World as It Was”In Light of Chang Dai-Ch'ien‧The World as It Was” series. As to GOGO YU and Luna Chen, each narrates the sentiments of romance with geometrical elements and style of picture books in her own way.

Mou Lu_Scent of a Woman • Scent of a Woman‧Bright Eyes 8

GOGO YU_Flower • Sleep

Chen Li-Wei_Still

Yachi Lai_In Light of Chang Dai-Ch’ien • The World as It Was 22

Based on the structure of Chinese paintings, Chinese artist Chen Jun depicts image blending concrete and abstract, realism and non-realism. His works are quite popular among art lovers in Taiwan, with all his exhibiting works sold out right at the VIP preview during Art Revolution Taipei 2013. Xcun expresses traditional literary thinking via his painting characterized by simplicity and child-like innocence. Lee Hongshan represents the elegance of the landscape and architecture of Jiangnan in south China from her unique feminine perspective.

Skilled in capturing light and shadow of glass transparency, Zhang Miao features the image deflected from the glass to symbolize the melting stability of the world. With a realistic style, Yu Zuguang’s walnut-themed paintings express his self-expectations of being perseverant toward life, as firm as the shell of walnuts. A young artist from Mozambique and graduate from China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Coana specializes in crafting the female images of his homeland with intensive and saturated colors.Please come to hunt for the treasures that resonate with your heart.

These 14 artists across Taiwan Strait each has his/her own characteristic style, market potential, and promising collectability. Please come to hunt for the treasures that resonate with your heart.