Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden

“Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden” is an exhibition comprised of mixed media works from 12 Asian artists. The Garden is a common subject in art – both ancient and contemporary, Eastern and Western. New York is a landscape that lies beyond nature, a city of secrets. To uncover its multi-cultural art is to discover the secret gardens of the city, and find the city’s heart.

Treatment of gardens has evolved into a genre offering many facets of nature – plants, trees, flora and fauna – to the dreamer. Gardens change according to the season, the aspect of nature revealed, and human involvement. It is a landscape in motion, and a children’s wonderland, where fairy tales start. Gardens in Asia are more exotic and erotic than their Western counterparts, and more frequently grounded in literary contexts. Poets, scholars, and literati meet in Asian gardens, and love stories bloomr in the back garden. Of course, a secret garden in an imperial palace exhibits the most extreme instance of these characteristics, and the intersection of private and public life lends itself easily to passion, drama, and tragedy.

In this exhibition, twelve contemporary Asian artists from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and New York use various media to express spiritual refreshment. The art relies on multiple perspectives to create a startling view of a landscape of the mind.

The works are divided into four categories: Poetic Garden, Landscape in Motion, Wonderland, and Hidden Garden.

Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden
Kuratoren: Luchia Meihua Lee, Howard Chen

Künstler: Eun Young Choi, Aihua Hsia, Huang Bo Chih, Kotaro Fukui, Kay Lin, Liu Shih Tung, Jiha Moon, Kaoruko Nakano, Shyu Ruey Shiann, Lu, Chi Yun, Yang Chin Chih, Yao Jui Chung