Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Filmed by Victor Peña

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https://youtu.be/a27JOkmPigA

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art Curated by Luchia Meihua Lee Faustino Quintanilla Fangling Tseng Amy Winter Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan March 24 - June 26, 2016 QCC Art Gallery, Queens, New York March 16 - June 17, 2017 Godwin Ternbach Museum, Queens, New York April 6 - May 26, 2017 El Museo de Los Sures, New York April 18 - June 30, 2017 Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art is a collaboration between the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Taiwanese American Arts Council, New York, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens Colleege and the QCC Art Gallery / CUNY. The exhibition showcases twenty-four artists whose extraordinary creativity and commitment to nature, environmental, and social issues are addressed in a convergence of painted, woven, netted, sewn, assembled and installed artworks. The conceptual art in this exhibition forms an enchanting dialogue, a reimagining and rediscovery of prosaic materials reborn greater than the sum of their parts. As Wen Fu Yu, one of the artists asserts: "The cloud exists in a quiet state, but youth is passionate". Ordinary objects are transformed, and their mere appearance finds liberation through the progressive process: form over content. Reshaped and valued anew as art, we marvel at their creators’ skills. Encountering these uncomplicated forms, rebalanced and brought into life, the viewer is challenged to inquire, feel and experience revelations - the dreams artist Yang Wei-Lin says are truth. Through the magic of Huang Wen Ying’s ‘Electromagnetics’ the fragility of the human condition is evoked, as well as a metaphysical sense of conflict between heaven, earth and humankind. Brought closer to self-awareness in the presence of these pieces, we sense the impermanence of life, drawing us into nature and its myriad qualities - those that Chuang Hui Lin suggest abandons quotidian pursuit of the mundane and commercial and leads toward nature, originality and a spiritual state of being. An inventory of signs and themes from popular culture is presented in the work of these artists - an unstoppable flow of variants, or rather a succession of classic memes that infuse the spectator in a continuous, transformative flow. Closely studying the objects, we are immersed in a new sensibility, a fresh awareness; look too quickly, and this meaning will be lost. To paraphrase André Breton, true humor reveals itself in a work through the profound initiation of feeling. Art is form, and form is a perpetual metamorphosis, forever undergoing change that evolves dynamic visions of perceived reality. Here are forms with historic and legendary power, forever in conflict, yet without heroes or ideas, here are forces suspended in a magnetically-levitated space above the pull of gravity. To see these works not as exhibits, but as questions to solve, we discover these objects changing rhythmically, vibrating with tension and reinventing their forms. We would like to thank those who have lent their talent to create the exhibit and to those who have offered their devoted commitment to this project. Participating Artists Steven Balogh 史帝芬。巴洛 Ching-Lin Chen 陳景林 Hui-Lin Chuang 莊惠琳 Teresa Huang 黃麗絹 Wen-Ying Huang 黃文英 Yen-Chao Huang 黃彥超 Yu-Chih Huang 黃裕智 Hiroshi Jashiki 謝敷 宏 Ming-Jer Kuo 郭明哲 Catherine Lan 藍巧茹 Eleng Luluan 安聖惠(峨冷) Lulu Meng 孟祥璐 John Ensor Parker 約翰。派克 Sarah Walko 莎拉。娃可 Poyen Wang 王博彥 Wen-Chi Wu 吳汶錡 ChinChih Yang 楊金池 Wei-Lin Yang 王博彥 Wen-Fu Yu 游文富 Filmed by Victor Peña Edited by Victor Peña Music "Healing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...​ Project Supervisor Phillip Roncoroni QCC Art Gallery Executive Director Faustino Quintanilla QCC Art Gallery Assistant Director Lisa Scandaliato (c) QCC Art Gallery 2017 Website: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/artgallery/​