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Living with Forms: A Dialogue Between Art and Life

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Post date:2025-01-17

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Living with Forms: A Dialogue Between Art and Life
Event Time
Eve of Public Holidays: 11:00 – 22:00; Weekdays: 11:00 – 21:30
Event Location
No. 9, Songshou Rd.,, Xinyi Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
The “Living with Forms” exhibition at Taipei Xinyi Shin Kong Mitsukoshi A9 presents a distinctive cross-disciplinary dialogue exploring how art weaves into our daily lives, guiding viewers to contemplate the relationship between everyday objects and artistic creation. Planned by Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, it brings together the lifestyle brand “Nordic,” known for its focus on Nordic design aesthetics, and the Taiwan-born artist I Chao Wang—who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and Japan—to offer audiences a visually and spiritually rich experience. Running through February 28, 2025, the exhibition warmly invites all art and design lovers to discover the limitless possibilities of aesthetic living.

Central to this exhibition is inspiration drawn from the early 20th-century Bauhaus movement, which championed the fusion of art and industrial design. By highlighting simple, elegant, and practical design language, Bauhaus forever transformed modern life. Its spirit aimed to erase the boundary between art and production, elevating design as a critical force in shaping our everyday world. Building on this stylistic foundation, I Chao Wang carries forward classic Bauhaus thinking in his artworks, intertwining it with Eastern aesthetics to produce sculptural pieces that balance modern design sensibilities with profound cultural resonance.

Inspired by the traditions of Japanese origami, Wang’s “Origami Sculpture with Motifs” series further explores the dynamic interplay between form and space. Employing techniques of bending, folding, and cutting, these works achieve a subtle equilibrium between stillness and motion while probing the transformation of two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures. By choosing rigid materials such as iron to capture paper’s softness and resilience, Wang creates a vivid visual and tactile contrast. He also pays close attention to the relationship between material and form, infusing the concept of “negative space” (Negative Space / Emptiness / Void) into his designs. This use of space and emptiness guides viewers’ imaginations, forging a deeper interaction between the artwork and its audience.

Wang’s creations go beyond visual form, weaving Eastern and Western cultural elements into their narrative. Drawing on symbols and motifs from daily life, he uses sleek, refined design techniques to open new interpretive layers for the viewer. In this exhibition, he takes “the hand” as a point of departure, translating the fluid beauty of hand gestures into lines and symbols within his sculptures. Each piece carefully balances “strength” and “grace,” reflecting Wang’s ongoing inquiry into shape, storytelling, and cultural meaning. In blending the profound depths of Eastern culture with the modernist language of Bauhaus, his works present a compelling aesthetic context that is both richly traditional and distinctly contemporary.
“Living with Forms” serves as a dialogue that transcends time and culture. Shaped by Bauhaus’s far-reaching influence on modern design, I Chao Wang reinterprets the convergence of Eastern and Western aesthetics from his personal viewpoint. The exhibition unfolds the ways in which everyday life and art intertwine, inviting visitors to reevaluate the presence and possibilities of art in their own day-to-day experiences.

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