Review：Call For Submissions - International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2020 R.O.C.

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International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2020 R.O.C.
中華民國第十九屆國際版畫雙年展

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Silver CCA Award

Taiwan

Wen-Pi Tien

From the quality of the lines - dotted or solid, tangible or intangible – I try to explore the renewed and reconstructed memories inscribed in the consciousness. By way of juxtaposition and overlapping, I try to to break the spatial limits using flowing lines, in order that the lines and shapes are mutually dependent with each other, creating a sense of rhythm that derives from the fusion between time and space. In so doing, I hope to continually expand and release new consciousness, and at the same time create unlimited possibilities for the mind.

Silver CCA Award

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Japan

Masaaki Ohya

I used to think that perhaps I would never go there. It doesn’t mean that I’m not interested or that I dislike it. I just felt that it had nothing to do withme. If I stretch my arms out a bit further, perhaps I could reach the sky. No wonder the air is so thin. Today I am here. At the place where I thought Iwould have nothing to do with. I am looking at the sky. Accidentally again, I have come further forward. It’s quite far this time and close to the sky. Istand on the earth and my whole body listens to the wind. I hear the battle cry of a lead-grey group of ice crystals, which is growing and will soon cover the sky; it is as if it is calling me from afar. What a vast world it is.Floating time is a fact of nature. Every living creature in heaven and earth is in slow motion. Everything is here now but I am unable to have it.Perhaps it is something that man left behind at the time of his crossing the Bering Sea a long time ago. The thought of an eternal heaven and earthexists within the ethereal bonds of human history. Are encounters between people a coincidence or a necessity? From the first fallen drop, encountersand farewells begin; they are inside and outside, one single indivisible eternal reason. Are the days promising to echo each other with an eventof long time ago? Or is it an illusion? A new start begins, right now, from here, today.Just one, single encounter, is the first ripple of those inscribed in a spiral. The ripples present in my unconsciousness will resonate along with various thoughts and at various times, and they are supposed to reach a further extent tomorrow. Is it a magical aspect of time? Is it a trick of destiny? Let’s listen to the tones of the sound coming from the spring of the heart that exists within unconsciousness. These tones will surely teach us that there isnothing which is not related to living.

Bronze NTMOFA Award

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Taiwan

Ching-Wen Yang

In the atmosphere created through two neon tubes, the immediate physical feeling is projected emotions and mental imagery. The two sets of physical feeling meet with each other and feel each other's emotions.

Special Technical Award

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Poland

Marta Bozyk

My art is intuitive and emotional. My art should speak by itself not my words.The art must be the manifestation of freedom. This is an individual story following an individual interpretation. I want a viewer to feel my art, bringing him a good field for positive thinking and being. I want it to guide the thoughts, to ease him thinking.Man should be surrounded with objects which speak not shout, which do not drown thoughts but inspire them. Such art I appreciate and such art I want to do. "Art should be a good field for thinking. My intuitional drawings are for your inspiration! My creation for your creation. Speaking not too loud and not too silent. It is a living image."

Special Judges’ Award

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Taiwan

Chiung-Fang Chang

All those images from life, experiences, senses, self-consciousness and intuition - identifiable or unidentifiable - are treated as symbols that cross my mind in either a meaningful or meaningless fashion. They are then arrayed and intertwined into a graphic language.

Honorable Mention

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United States

Art Werger

My recent work continues to explore themes of time/space and the nature of representation as shared experience. Through the mediaof etching and mezzotint, these pieces attempt to place the viewer into an active relationship with the image. The subject is presented in arealistic manner but often observed form an oblique aerial angle, forcing the viewer into an unusual role, not unlike the omniscient narrator in a work of the viewer. The viewer is privy to the world below, yet curiously removed form it. As a cinematic device, this abstract angle allows for an overview of the scene as well as an introduction to the characters within the environment. This is intended to suggest a narrative which ultimately requires the viewers’ participation.

Honorable Mention

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Japan

Koen Sakamoto

I am making the works titled “SNOW WORK” Since 1986. First I make the objects from snow. Next I take photograph of the objects. Finally, I print image of the photograph to Japanese paper “Wa-shi” by the technique of Inkjet print.

Honorable Mention