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2024 Art Basel Hong Kong
Exhibition documentation from the Tommy Chen source archive.
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2024 Fifth Moon and Ton-Fan
National Museum of History runs exhibition on Taiwan’s modernist art movement
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2023 Exhibition
Lin & Lin Gallery is pleased to participate in Taipei Dangdai 2023. The exhibition will showcase latest artworks by artists Chen Tao-Ming, Chen Chieh-Jen, Liu Shih-Tung, Lai Chiu-Chen, Huang Chia-Ning, Shen Liang and Zhao Zhao, presenting the diverse landscapes of contemporary art in their paintings and exploring the personal reflection of the artists.
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2015 Exhibition
Tommy CHEN Solo Exhibition: Rising from the East, Diver of Abstract Art
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Rising from the East
Tommy CHEN was born in Jinan, Shangdong Province, China, in 1931. Amidst the turbulence of the era, CHEN came to Taiwan and built his family here, later classified as one of the Chinese diasporic painters after the Chinese Civil War. At 18, CHEN enrolled into the department of art at National Taipei Teachers College and became the classmate of HSIAO Chin and LI Yuan-Chia. Afterwards, he learned under LI Chun-Shan, who had recognized his bold use of colors then. CHEN was acknowledged by HSIAO Chin as the first Chinese painter of abstract art, even earlier than ZAO Wu-Ki. At the end of 1955, CHEN, together with friends including HSIA Yan, LI Yuan-Chia, HO-Kan, HSIO Chin, co-founded "Ton Fon Art Group," and the eight founders were dubbed "The Eight Highwaymen of the East."
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Transcendence
Transcendence from A far-Oriental Abstract Painting and the Tradition of Creating Ekaggatā
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A Time Wrestler
Tommy Chen (Chen Tao-Ming), a rather unfamiliar name in Taiwanese art, is a 80-year-old painter who has spent most of his life negotiating with time. A devotee to abstract painting and a founding member of Ton-Fan (Dongfang) Art Group in 1956, he had to halt his visual art practice in the mid-1960s to support his growing family. Once he officially picked up his paintbrushes again around 1978, he resumed the pursuit in abstraction, a style that was considered“traditional” amidst the emergence of new media art in Taiwan. His persistence in exploring the possibilities ofthe painting medium seems to be making up for lost time, uninhibited by his age, his hiatus from art, or the conditions of Taiwan’s artistic environment. In his paintings, time issuspended and stretchedas his vibrant concoction of colors and textures lures him and his viewers deeper into the picture. They soon discover the intricate patterns, grains, and stains that are culminations ofthe intimate exchanges between his psyche, hands, and the material. With a strong emphasis on process—not for the purpose of exposing the painter’s action but for his own pleasure of engaging with the material—his paintings become a documentation of his mind’stravels.An important contributor to Taiwan’s modernist painting movement in the postwar era and the first in his generation to commit to abstract art, Chen has never settled on any signature style, as many Modernist painters would, but is committed to explore the possibilities of prioritizing process and the demands of the material.His work is fraught with tension between Chinese and Western pictorial strategy and material attributes, harmonized through his incorporation of the element of time in his methodology and treatment of the medium. His paintings from the past five years and works on paper from nearly two decades, on view in this exhibition, demonstrate the painter’s diverse approaches and tireless experiments to communicate his painterly impulses and psyche with the outside world as he pushes the limits of the material and the two-dimensional art form.
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Art in Our Time
Art in Our Time: NTMoFA Collection Highlights is specially curated for the NTMoFA’s 35th anniversary, featuring iconic works from different periods of the museum's collection and art history research topics. The displays and themes showcase the developmental trajectory of NTMoFA’s research preference, the history of the museum’s collection, and the curatorial perspective throughout the different periods of Taiwan’s art history.
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YouTube Video, Tao-Ｍing Chen (Tommy Chen) Artist 陳道明 藝術家
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