TANG Jo-Hung ; The Outsider

Mind Set Art Center is delighted to present Tang Jo-Hung’s solo exhibition “The Outsider” from 2nd of September to 7th of October 2017. 

Tang Jo-Hung has long been conscious of his marginalized situation, in terms of ethnic identity, living status as well as artistic pursuit and viewpoint. “Even confronting with myself, I still cannot tell where my sense of floating comes from,” he said, and a sense of alienation indeed lingers among his recent paintings. Many of his recent paintings are of people, each with some distinguishing or even odd features, arousing a kind of intimacy while evidently alienated from the environment where they situate. The crevices amongst cognition, identity, environment and individuals thus provide spaces for unrestricted imagination and wandering.

When talking about art, Tang is never concerned with issues, emotions or messages. The painting itself and its visual effect are what he really mind right from the beginning. His brush would leave traces of color and shape on the board. The brushworks in turn bring up feed backs to the artist, forming a conversation between the creator and the created that is nutritious to both. Tang’s paintings always have outstanding coloring. Each of his brushstrokes varies in speed and form, but always responses to each other. Together, they grow to form a scene of literary temperament and aura.

Born 1975 in Taipei, Taiwan, Tang Jo-Hung currently lives and works in Taipei. He graduated with BA. from Department of Fine Arts, Tunghai University in 1998. In 2002, he received his MFA. from University of Salamanca in Spain (Máster del Arte de la Universidad de Salamanca), and was granted the prestigious Premio San Marco premiere award in the same year. He received the first prize at the 22nd Kaohsiung Awards in 2005, Liao Chi-Chun Oil Painting Award in 2008, and the First Prize of Taipei Arts Awards in 2016.