Purity of the West, Wildness of the East

The artist's creative ideas and elements can be traced back to the influence of regional culture. The message conveyed through the work is their vocabulary to face the world. However, When detached from external influences, it is another realm of self-realization when entering the inner world. 'Purity of the west, Wildness of the East'presents its own cultural background. The three artists from western and two artists from Southeast Asia show the purity and wildness on the canvas.

Two artists who have been highly regarded in Southeast Asia in recent years, Iabadiou Piko and Gene Paul Martin from Indonesia and the Philippines. Due to the colonial history of the two places, the vocabulary of the works of a new generation of artists is full of diversity. Rich and bold creative methods, not only to mention the characteristics of the birth of the Eight Diagrams but reflecting changes in the country's economic system, as well as the emergence of the middle class, the annotations of the future of prosperity and past poverty. We can see that the animal claws or the four-legged beasts everywhere in Piko's painting which is echoing the true transformation of his inner world. His true fearless character, as well as his control over his own paintings, again show how an imaginative but daring artist can survive in today's complex global marketplace. He shows himself and being faithful to his own creative symbols. However, The world of Gene Paul Martinis more complicated than Iabadiou Piko. Martin is concerned about the political situation, the current situation, and social issues, and actively supports each side beyond the canvas. Trying to make the young artists in the art area they are in will not lose their artistic pursuit because of a large amount of money comes in. In the joint exhibition, Martin also presents his side in a very indirect way, allowing viewers to see about him and his generation among symbols, colors, and characters. Through the works of Piko and Martin, it reflects the change in today's society, the struggle of young people's heart, and the wildness of the eastern world.

Compared with the East, Western artists show a quieter and purer side. From the past, oil paintings have been filled into personal thoughts and experiences by Rodney Dickson. From the early days, the emotions and memories of the ancestral warfare were reflected in the creation, and a series of works were done to witness the turmoil in the eastern countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia. In the past two years, he has experienced the grief of lover pass away, let him think about life in turn. He experiences the painful darkness in the pain, and inject into the black hole to find the power of life and inject it into the canvas. This is also why in the past two years, Dixon's work has always seen the calm under the foundation. Peter Zimmermann, born in the embryonic stage of the digital age. He used the process of competing with technology from the past, ironically make digital files from the Internet and document prints into new flow lines and shapes, so that viewers can not distinguish their electronic and hand-made components. Afterward, in these two decades, Zimmermann has become the best representative of contemporary creation made by epoxy resin. However, he has been good at all kinds of colors over the years, always letting the white element absent. The reason is that he still has doubts about the stability of white epoxy resin. Until two years ago, he confirmed that a white work done many years ago, under the special heat-drying process, can still maintain the whiteness of each color without change, so this year, Simmoman's white will finally meet the world. Gizela Mickiewicz, a Polish artist born in 1984 with painting as the beginning of her studies and career. Her works usually made by the integration of objects because of the sigh of the incompetence and waste of the ready-to-go items in today's society. She observes the relationship between objects and objects and objects and humans, study the composition, source, and production process, disassemble and assemble in different forms, and fuse the materials of completely different materials. Her works Seemingly integrated but independent, the work is shaped like a fossil bone but mixed with other elements. Mickiewicz returns the objects in her life to the most primitive state and leads the viewers to immerse themselves into the material world from another perspective. It seems that material changes are actually caused by different ways of viewing.

At the end of this summer, Nunu Fine Art will bring you a group exhibition of these five artists. You are welcome to come and visit us to experience the charm of the fusion of East and West.