New Publication
Liu Kuo-sung
Now available online is The Liu Kuo-sung Reader: Selected Texts on and by the Artist, 1950s – Present. Edited by Eugene Y. Wang, Valerie C. Doran, and Alan C. Yeung, and published by HarvardCAMLab on May 7, 2024, the Reader is the first English anthology on the Taipei-based artist, featuring many previously unpublished and untranslated texts.
The Reader follows the Liu Kuo-sung’s (Liu Guosong) journey from war-torn China, to his education and leading role in Modern art movements in Taiwan, to his rise on the international stage. Comprehensively arranged and richly illustrated, the anthology focuses on themes important throughout the artist’s long and celebrated career: the role of tradition, Modern identity, and creative artistic freedom, and is a must-read for students of Chinese art history and collectors alike.
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Art in Our Times – National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Museum Exhibition
Liu Kuo-sung
Several Modern ink paintings by Liu Kuo-sung’s are now on view at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung. Celebrating the NTMoFA’s 35th anniversary, Art in Our Times features highlights the Museum’s permanent collection, and offers four curatorial perspectives of Taiwan’s art history
Installation View, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. Photo: T. Chang
Experimentation as Method
Museum Exhibition
Liu Kuo-sung
The Father of Modern Ink, Liu Kuo-sung’s large-scale retrospective at the National Gallery Singapore opens from Jan 13 to Nov 26, 2023. The exhibition features over sixty paintings and 150 archival items from the Taipei-based artist’s career of over seventy years, as well as highlights Liu’s innovation and contribution to the developing the genre of Modern Ink Painting.
Installation view, National Gallery Singapore. Photo: National Gallery Singapore
2023 Hengshan Calligraphy Biennial
Museum Exhibition
Liu Kuo-sung
ERA OF PRINCIPLE AND NO PRINCIPLE – Calligraphy as a Visual Form opens Jan 20, 2023 to April 24 at Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center at Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. Curated by Wu Chao-Jen of Tunghai University’s Department of Fine Arts, the exhibition invites Taiwanese and international artists to explore calligraphy as a visual form in Contemporary art and its possible future development as a practice.
Installation View, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taoyuan. Photo: TMOFA