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Arts exhibition from 18th July until 6th September 2010 in the ground and 1st floor of the Tower
About the artist: Katrin Koelling-Schlebusch
Raised in Hamburg, since 2006 she has lived and worked in Vienna. The works of art for this exhibition were done during the last two years. These creations are from the series “Durchs(ch)ichten” and “Moments”.
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„TAIWAN SUBLIME“, Arts exhibition in the Foyer and 1st Floor lasts until mid February 2010 |
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These pictures are showing that Taiwan is offering a lot more than computer and high technology.
Four well-known photographers are introducing this island with all its landscaped and cultural variety.
The exhibition in the Foyer and 1st Floor lasts until mid February 2010.
info about the photographers:
Chi Po-lin
Soaring - An Elevated Vision of Natural Taiwan
Though Nature presents us with a cornucopia of contrasting vistas, human beings’ earth-bound scope of vision, after all, is too limited to appreciate the large-scale conformation of the land that nurtures them. At least, that is true of most human beings. Photographer Chi Po-lin is the exception to the rule. He has developed a vision of Taiwan quite literally more elevated than that of the common person who, by comparison, “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Over the past decade-plus, Chi has spent more than 1,000 hours soaring—physically and spiritually—over the island in helicopters at altitudes between 300 feet and 14,000 feet, snapping more than 200,000 spectacular bird’s-eye images of its exalted, protean physiognomy. Even this small sampling of what Chi has seen from his eagle’s perspective enables us to share his exhilaration at witnessing Taiwan as the huge, mysterious and wonderful creature it is.
Liu Chen-hsiang
Passion - Heavenly Feast of the Performing Arts
Taiwan’s culturally diverse society supports a fascinating mélange of drama and dance genres, whose lineages can be traced from sources as disparate as august palaces to common neighborhood temple grounds, and whose form and flavor range from the highly sophisticated and complex to the simple and down-to-earth. A long-time photographic chronicler of Taiwan’s dance and traditional drama scenes, Liu Chen-hsiang has dedicated himself to the challenge of adapting the photographic technologies and techniques to the myriad variables of dancers’ and actors’ motions, stage design and lighting. He is particularly admired for his knack for capturing in enduring images the fleeting bursts of emotional power by which artists of dance have animated the hearts and minds of people through the ages.
Huang Ting-sheng
Folkways – Melding the Mundane and the Celestial
Thanks to its ethnic diversity, Taiwan has become, in effect, a pantheon in which people with different religious traditions commune with a wide array of spirits and deities through solemn rituals and pilgrimages as well as through festive temple fairs and other activities. Over the past twenty-odd years, photographer Huang Ting-sheng has photographically recorded more than 500 religious festivals and rituals of the Taiwanese people. His passion for preserving images of such activities for posterity was sparked, initially, by the discovery that other interested observers mostly made only scholarly written records. Photography of religious activities presents its own set of problems, including sensitivity to taboos and having to work amid teaming crowds. Through patient study and devotion to the “gods of photography,” he has risen to the challenge and created a moving pictorial archive of the myriad ways through which humanity melds the mundane and the celestial.
Chen Chih-hsiung
Interfaces – Rhythms of Nature and Humanity
Azure lakes, cobalt-blue seas, luxuriantly forested mountains, jade-green lowlands—such are the magnificent backdrops for life in Taiwan. With his profound passion for observing Nature and his keen appreciation of the flux of spatial and temporal conditions as well as of interactions between the land and its people, photographer Chen Chih-hsiung has compiled a vast album of lyrical portraits of Taiwan, the seasonal rhythms of its landscapes and seascapes, and the human contribution to its appearance. Though having no formal training in photography, Chen’s passion has driven him to continually research and perfect all manner of photographic techniques. In particular, he is appreciated for his portrayals of twilight scenes wherein he masterfully dramatizes subtle contrasts of light-and-dark value and of textures and contours.
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