Soft GlossPost date：2024-03-12
Updates：2024-03-29
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- Event Time
- 2024-03-09~2024-04-28Tue. - Sun. 10:00 – 18:30
- Event Location
- 1F, No. 128, Lequn 3rd Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
How would you describe the colour of hope? Can you imagine a colour that doesn’t exist? If you were to choose a colour that represents your childhood, what would it be? If you add the hue of the weather outside, what would it be?
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We are delighted to announce the launch our first exhibition of the spring season following the Lunar New Year: ‘Soft Gloss’ by British artist Emma Stone-Johnson (b.1982). The Asia Art Center has long been engaged in postwar Asian modern art movements, encompassing the ‘Fifth Moon Art Society（五月畫會 )’ and ‘Ton Fan Art Society（東方畫會 )’ in Taiwan since the late 1950s, Japan’s Mono-ha（もの派 ) and Gutai（具体） movements, as well as Southeast Asia’s Nanyang School in Singapore and the Bandung School in Indonesia. Within the vast realm of abstract art, how should we understand the abstract paintings of the emerging artist Emma Stone-Johnson?
Starting from the 1950s, the trend of Abstract Expressionism has swept the world, a history of over seventy years. One of the major differences between Emma Stone-Johnson’s works and early abstract paintings is the extensive use of fluorescent pigments and metallic luster materials. Since the rapid development of chemical technology after World War II, artists have no longer been limited to colour found solely in nature or within the traditional colour wheel. The title of this exhibition, ‘Soft Gloss’, is a title of a type of paint itself, glimpsed in an aisles of a hardware shop. The materiality of paint and pigment, an ever important and intrinsic part of the artist’s practice. Stone-Johnson saturates the canvas with water, allowing the image to emerge through the chemical changes of pigments, binders, diluted acrylics, ink, metals, and other substances as the water-saturated canvas absorbs the fluidity of the paint. Just as we absorb light into our skin. The image seemingly swims to the surface as it dries, just as memory, loss and grief float to the surface of our consciousness throughout our days. They swim in and out.
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We are delighted to announce the launch our first exhibition of the spring season following the Lunar New Year: ‘Soft Gloss’ by British artist Emma Stone-Johnson (b.1982). The Asia Art Center has long been engaged in postwar Asian modern art movements, encompassing the ‘Fifth Moon Art Society（五月畫會 )’ and ‘Ton Fan Art Society（東方畫會 )’ in Taiwan since the late 1950s, Japan’s Mono-ha（もの派 ) and Gutai（具体） movements, as well as Southeast Asia’s Nanyang School in Singapore and the Bandung School in Indonesia. Within the vast realm of abstract art, how should we understand the abstract paintings of the emerging artist Emma Stone-Johnson?
Starting from the 1950s, the trend of Abstract Expressionism has swept the world, a history of over seventy years. One of the major differences between Emma Stone-Johnson’s works and early abstract paintings is the extensive use of fluorescent pigments and metallic luster materials. Since the rapid development of chemical technology after World War II, artists have no longer been limited to colour found solely in nature or within the traditional colour wheel. The title of this exhibition, ‘Soft Gloss’, is a title of a type of paint itself, glimpsed in an aisles of a hardware shop. The materiality of paint and pigment, an ever important and intrinsic part of the artist’s practice. Stone-Johnson saturates the canvas with water, allowing the image to emerge through the chemical changes of pigments, binders, diluted acrylics, ink, metals, and other substances as the water-saturated canvas absorbs the fluidity of the paint. Just as we absorb light into our skin. The image seemingly swims to the surface as it dries, just as memory, loss and grief float to the surface of our consciousness throughout our days. They swim in and out.
