EXHIBITED:

Continuation-Special Exhibition of Li Chun-Shan Modern Painting Award Winners, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, March 13 - May 16, 2010.

ILLUSTRATED:

Continuation-Special Exhibition of Li Chun-Shan Modern Painting Award Winners, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, March 13 - May 16, 2010, color illustrated

This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Taiwan painter Lien Chien-hsing famous for "magic realism" has won the acknowledgment of the art community with his unique creative style in recent years. Through the severe test of such creative forms as photo-realism and new expressionism and through decades of hard work, the magic realistic style Lien Chien-hsing has brewed and developed, which boasts calm and humanist consideration features has been deeply rooted in the people's hearts.

In the early 1980s, photo-realism had been in vogue. Lien Chien-hsing, the sophomore with major subjects of fine arts in Culture University, kept up with the tide also and was awarded the Hsiung Shih young artist prize of fine arts. Lien Chien-hsing lived in Taiwan during the period when Taiwan had not shaken off the martial law and its economy had just started to develop. His creation was originated from the huge impact between opening up and self-seclusion. Starting from nostalgic realism, injecting his own feeling and idea, he endowed the nostalgic realism with a new meaning. The sceneries he described in his paintings were mostly in Northern Taiwan where he lived and grew up and had transformed from the previous plentiful folk culture to the blankness and apathy of mechanical civilization, due to the transition of time and space, expressing the view towards life and space-time through recording the elapsing sceneries.

Entering into the 1990s, the works of Lien Chien-hsing revealed the contrast between reality and delusion and largely presented ruins. Apart from the ruined mines, saps, mottled architectural hobs, in his paintings, he transformed the ruined sceneries into imaginary space by adopting blocks, walls, wooden racks, water sources, animals and vegetations located at the seemingly ruined corner. By the space presentation from top view and vast view, the sceneries, ruins and animals were intertwined into partially realistic and partially virtual illusion to symbolize the visional real world and suggest the insignificance and uncertainty of life.

Created during 2008, the works of "Secret Dance in Frivolous Mood 2" reveals natural and virgin sceneries combined by our familiar green hills and clear water, spreading out the mysterious, tranquil , implicit and sad flavor, indistinctly and naturally infiltrating nostalgia and reflecting the geographical attachment towards the place the painter belongs to.