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Hsu Tang Wei
Contemporary Asian Cartoon Fantasy Art Mixed Media Drawing Tang Wei Hsu Anime

2012

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Tang-Wei Hsu (1980 born in Changhua, Taiwan) obtained a BA in Architecture at the Shih Chien University and finished an MFA in Visual Arts at the Tainan National University of the Arts. His paintings begin from an imagined fantasy space extending into installation, sculpture, and public art. He is a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (2009) and was a residency artist in the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn (2011). After relocated to New York in 2011, Hsu attended many local and international exhibitions such as “Crystal Cave", ASYMMETRIK Gallery, New York (2016); “Across The Pacific”, LAM Gallery, California (2016); “On & On: Art Without End”, Mark Miller Gallery, New York (2015); Outdoor exhibitions include 4heads: GIAF, New York (2016,2013&2012); DUMBO Arts Festival, New York (2013). As an international artist, he travels widely for varied projects and installations taking place in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Demark, Australia, the USA, and so on. In 2013, Hsu collaborated with the New York City DOT (Department of Transportation) and carried out a public art installation project: Magic Monkeys. Series sculptures were shown in Sculpture By The Sea in Denmark (2015) and Cottesloe, Sydney, Australia (2016, 2018). From studio to gallery, to street, to museum, Tang-Wei Hsu’s work has universal appeal. Tang-Wei studied space design and plastic arts. His experience in architectural drawings has contributed to his uniqueness. Hsu has reinvented the Superflat style by infusing three-dimensional perspective into his paintings and sculptures. His art transforms us from reality to a fantasy world. Hsu’s large-scale stainless steel sculptures and the drawings of creatures (organic patterns) that he constantly composes in white and black lines, which are seen as his individual idiosyncrasy and artlang, have gradually gained him worldwide publicity. Tang-Wei creates complex drawings as well as mixed-media installations composed of his drawings, paintings, and architectural features. His artistic ideas emerged from his cultural heritage and childhood experiences. Growing up, anime and Japanese comics like Pokémon were a big part of his childhood and his later artistic inspiration. He often alludes to nature in his work and interprets physical features of our universe as the stars and astronomy, either at close range or at a distance. By combining his fanciful worlds with practical architectural features, he asks us to suspend our disbelief, embrace his fantasy terrains, and enjoy them as part of our everyday surroundings. Those works hope to produce the relationship between the miniature and enormous scale in his paintings. Different layers from the painting produced many relationships, in order to make this imaginary space or scene are fantastic as outer space, every status of every distance is compressed into the flat paintings. Also extends the new imagination and fantasy from this space, by creating some clustered symbols in an artificial way, to make it feels like some unknown biology, biological unit, and various imagination of scenes. Group Exhibition 2021 “POW WOW! Long Beach”, Long Beach, CA “Zooming In and Out of Imaginary Worlds”, Beyond Gallery, Taiwan 2020 “stARTup LA”, Venice Beach, Los Angeles 2019 “stARTup LA”, Venice Beach, Los Angeles “A Land of Happiness” 2019 Treasure Hill Light Festival, Taipei, Taiwan “Animal” National Palace Museum New Media Art exhibition, Taichung, 2018 “Sculpture By The Sea”, Bondi, Sydney, Australia “Relaxation – The Secret Garden of Cartoon Fantasy”, MOCA-Yinchuan, “On & On: Art Without End and Color-ism”, The Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 2017 “Keep Going – Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Farglory Museum, “Design Together”, Zhongshan MRT Station, Taipei, Taiwan 2016 Across The Pacific”, LAM Gallery, California “Young At Heart”, Galerie F&F, Taiwan 2015 “On & On: Art Without End”, Mark Miller Gallery, New York “The Moment”, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York “Sculpture By The Sea 2015”, Sculpture By The Sea, Aarhus, Denmark “Art Athina”, Faliron Pavilion, Greece “Fukui Hsu Mann Wang”, Flinn Gallery, Connecticut “Jecoration”, J-Collabo, New York “SCOPE: New York 2015”, Art Projects Gallery, New York 2014 “Solstice Synergy”, Mahlstedt Gallery, New York “Emrupt – International Contemporary Art Exhibition", Leigh Wen Fine Art, 2013 “Love Love : Animamix Biennale 2013-14”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan “Rainbow Pixies”, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York “Nature Phenomenon”, 4heads: 6th Annual Governors Island Art Fair “Fantasy on the spot”, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taipei, “Toy Story”, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan “Landscape of Spectacle: 2013 Treasure Hill Artist Village Lantern Festival”, Taipei, Taiwan 2012 “Innovation & Re-creation” Selected Works from the NTMoFA Young Artist Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan “CAFAM-FUTURE” CAFAM Art Museum, Beijing, China “Future Pass” National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum, Shanghai “Monster Drawing Rally 2012”, DUMBO Arts Center, New York 2010 “Art Fair in Taipei”, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei “Non-Places: Architecture of pheromonal presence”, Shih-Chien university, Taipei, Taiwan “Very Fun Park”, East District of Taipei, Taiwan “Pattern of Art”, TAI YU Beaux Arts Salon, Chiayi, Taiwan “Art Taiwan – Su Meng-hung & Hsu Tang-Wei Group Exhibition”, Taipei Cultural Center in Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan “Best Wishes for You”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung “7th Chinese Character Festival”, BR4 Train station, Taipei, Taiwan 2009 “Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA “, TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan “CIGE 2009”, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China “Cow Parade Taipei 2009”, Huashan1914 Creative Park, National Taiwan “Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival 2009”, Pier-2 Art Center, “Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse”, Art With The Heart, Chiayi, Taiwan
  • Creator:
    Hsu Tang Wei (1980, Taiwanese)
  • Creation Year:
    2012
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38214587282

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