IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES II

28.11.14 - 01.03.15

Formal opening:

Friday 28 November at 8 p.m.

Opening hours:

9–12 a.m. and 2–6 p.m. (except Saturdays and Sundays) plus the evenings when there is a performance at the Theatre.

The Imaginary Landscapes exhibition

A selection from the student work (videos, animations, digital paintings, interactive installations, drawings, transmedia) entered for the “Imaginary Landscapes II” biennial international competition, initiated by Patrizia Abderhalden, who directs the EPAC, and Eng-Hiong Low, in collaboration with the MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) at Taipei on Taiwan (ROC), and the fruit of collaboration between arts academies and universities in Europe and Asia. The theme of this second edition was “Immortal quest – new spaces and codes – the post human”.

With the new technologies and new artistic media, experimentation plays an essential role in both the teaching and the learning processes. New codes and new techniques have completely changed the access to the media of artistic expression and how they are used. The idea in itself has become more important than the original work. In a post-modern, global and interconnected world, we need a more open mind, to think beyond common sense if we are to apprehend the new ways of understanding the world, art and society – in short: new imaginary landscapes.

Julia Hountou, curator of the Crochetan Gallery.

Julia Hountou is a teacher with a doctorate in contemporary art history; the Curator of the Théâtre du Crochetan’s Gallery, she commissioned this exhibition.

Title, artist(s) and type of work on show:

Obfuscator, Chen-Chun Chen, an interactive installation

Circus, Guo-Wei Chiou, animation

Suspended Monsters, Nicolas Degaudenzi, digital painting

Landscape, Chih-Ming Fan, video

A Time and a Place, Chuang Ho, animated drawings

Floating Island, Hsin-Wen Hsu, wood and pencil

Live or leave, Po-Yu Huang, digital graphics

Bionic Orchid, Li-Chin Lin/Yun-Jun Lin/Cipto Hartanto, interactive installation

Eternity, Julien Loutz, pencil

Rouge Statue, Dexter Maurer, colour pencils

Le Signal, Ramiz Morina, digital painting