KUANDU MUSEUM OF FINE ART

KoMoFA (on the TNUA Campus, 1, Hsueh-Yuan Rd., Guandu, Beitou) has world-class artists, often better quality shows than the more famous (and better-funded) downtown Taipei museums.  The previous show had a few of the best modern work I've seen in America, Europe, or Asia.

The current show, "Post-Loyalist of Doomsdayism," well-curated by Huang Wan-Hsuan, is equally wonderful.....

Outstanding work includes: Tien Chi-Chuan’s extraordinary spiritual and reflective Moonscape, Lin Chien-Chih’s stunning roomful of black-lighted alien/prehistoric/modern figures. Karel van Laere’s beautifully hypnotic and disturbing minimalist video loop of a motionless body slowly dragged across different real natural and city moving landscapes (with sparse powerful subtitles),

Lo Li-Feng’s green and cellular forms and garden that doesn’t waste precious water, Chen Guo-Zai’s reflective beaded swimmer, Hsu Yu-Jen’s strong B&W and color ink abstracts,

and the brilliantly architecture of the Museum interior itself - perfect for displaying art intimately and at different proper perspectives, to best bring out the meaning of the art, rather than to show off the building.

The show closes 24/2/13. See it (and future shows), if you care about non-decorative deeper visual, sensual, thoughtful creativity.

On the way up the green mountain to the Museum, you also have the opportunity to see the grassy sculpture garden, with superb work by Ju Ming, Chang Nai-Wen, and other, and watch kids play, kites flying, and the best 5-star free view of all Taipei.