Works
From Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Su Chongming has a calm and reserved personality. From a young age, he determined that painting would be his lifelong career. Although he once worked in the advertising industry for economic survival, he never gave up painting. Eventually, he quit his day job to devote himself fully to artistic creation. In 2003, Su pursued further studies in a Master of Fine Arts at Tunghai University, Taichung. Of the entire class, he was the only graduate who was not from a fine arts background. Although he lives in the bustling Xinyi District of downtown Taipei, he leads a reclusive life, spending almost all day painting. His landscape paintings are fresh and refined, with a lofty artistic conception—his art reflects his personality.
Exhibitions
Misty Mountains, Free and Easy
Su Chung-ming
Oct 12 – Dec 5, 2024
Journals
Four Views of a Landscape – Summer
Catalog Entry
Su Chung-ming’s landscapes give the viewer a sense of freshness, and the same is true of Four Views of a Landscape – Summer. The circular album leaf format sets the scale of the composition. The painting captures the fine details of a mountain, focusing in on a steep cliffside. The brushwork is non-traditional and is comprised of a network of rectangular lines. When viewed up close, the lines appear highly textural, while at a distance, they form the structure of a mountain.
Su Chung-ming, Four Views of a Landscape – Summer, 2023 © Su Chung-ming
Calling to Mountains
Essay
Su Chung-ming’s landscapes leap off the paper and call to the mountains outside
Seemingly speaking a thousand words, but spoken in solemn silence
The worries of the world are lost beyond the sky
Aesthetic theorist Zong Baihua (1897–1986) introduced in An Aesthetics Anthology that the most profound sentiment in Chinese painting is “to silently be molded by and thus become one with the infinite reality of nature and space.”
Su Chung-ming, Misty Valley (detail), 2021 © Su Chung-ming
News
VOGUE Taiwan
News
Su Chung-ming
In fashion and lifestyle magazine VOGUE Taiwan‘s coverage of the Art Taipei 2024 art fair, a definitive list of fifteen artworks were selected among thousands works presented by over a hundred galleries. Loftyart Gallery’s Su Chung-ming’s ink painting Floating Clouds and Mist was selected as one of the fifteen exciting works that represent the art fair.
VOGUE Taiwan Webpage © VOGUE Taiwan
Echoes of Nature: Inspiration and Reflection in Contemporary Art
In Conversation
Su Chung-ming
ART TAIPEI Live Talk podcast with Loftyart Gallery artist Su Chung-ming at the 2024 Art Taipei fair is now available online. This episode is hosted by TAGA’s VIVI, and speakers include artists Su Chung-ming from Loftyart Gallery, Lin Hao-bai from Cloud Gallery, and Wu Shi-wei from Yiyun Art.
From left: Su Chung-ming, Lin Hao-bai, Wu Shi-wei, and TAGA host VIVI, live at the Art Taipei recording studio, Taipei World Trade Center. Photo: T. Chang