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 Stay With the Ancient Tao, Move With the Present

執古之道 以御今之有

    Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.

     Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.

     Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible.
     These three are indefinable; Therefore they are joined in one.

      From above it is not bright; From below it is not dark:
      An unbroken thread beyond description.
      It returns to nothingness. The form of the formless,
      The image of the imageless, It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.

      Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. 

      Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.

                                                                                              ---Tao Te Ching Chapter 14

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Present Contemporary Art

2010- New

 

Kotaro FUKUI 福井江太郎

Silent Flowers and Ostriches

Curator: Luchia Meihua Lee

March 5th – April 17, 2010

Chelsea Art Museum

Opening reception: Thursday March 4th, 2010 6-8pm

Performance and artist talk: Saturday, March 6, 2010 4pm

 

 

A striking 7 meter long(24 feet) “Silent Flower” Iris painting will be shipped from Tokyo, and regally looks down from one wall of the Museum.

Japanese Washi paper, Gold Foil, blue lapis lazuli pigment, indian ink, nature glue..all organic nature materials.

 

 

Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden:

Mixed Media Works by 24 Asian Artists

 

Chelsea Art Museum       April 9-May 18, 2009

Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in NY    May 6 -June 5, 2009

Elga Wimmer Gallery        May 13-June 25, 2009

THE Gallery at Papoo's    April 30 -May 30, 2009 

ACAW 2009  

 

Kotaro Fukui: Silent Flowers & Ostriches

Febrary 7- March 14, 2009

Asian Cultural and Art Center, Towson University, Maryland

 

Kotaro Fukui
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Reason's Clue

September 28th, 2008-January 12th, 2009

Queens Museum of Art, New York

 Meditation in a Contemporary Landscape

Godwin Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY

September 12-December 15, 2008

 

 

 

  Back to the Garden: Daily Life to Spiritual Vision

 Crossing Art, New York\

March 22- June 30, 2008 

 

Back to the Garden: Daily Life to spiritual Vision is Crossing Art’s largest exhibition to date, featuring eight artists who address Utopian aspirations.
Artists: Eun Yung Choi, Ming Fay, Lin Peychwen,

Shannon Plumb, Jeremiah Teipen, YoYo Xiao,

Zhang Hongtu, Chee Wang Ng.

Back to the Garden gives free rein to the imagination and chooses an interpretation that reverses
 the intuitive direction and contemplates more than the beautiful view.
This exhibition is made possible by F & T Group.

The title of the exhibition “Back to the Garden” was originally from
Joni Michell’s song “Woodstock.”

Back to the garden on view
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Outside In: New Realms of Taiwan Art

February 21, March 13, 2008

Columbia University, New York

Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York

 

 

 

Outdoor Sculpture:  "Heavenly Timing, Earth Advantage, Human Hamony" by artist Lin shih Pao

opening reception: March 8, 2008 -March 28, 2008

Queens Crossing, Flushing Main Street & 39 Avenue

    

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Forum : Create Dialogue 論壇及對話

 

Beyond Measure-見仁見智

The fragment of traditional heritage are revival only through consistent use of contemporary interpretation, and to reach international recognition. Beyond measure, aims to elevate the awareness and appreciation of the creativity and frosting dialogue among broad communities using creative ways to integrate of the historical ideas, by crossing the boundary of region and time to encourage the reflection of mutual understanding globally.

 

Nexus

Queens Museum of Art, New York 2004 

24 artists from New York and Taiwan

 

     

    

 

 

茶道與生活文化

 

Tea tasting, along with music, painting, poetry readings, and calligraphy,

was a symbol of the prestigious life of literary scholars and other members

of the intelligentsia. This combination of activities became the defining concept of their esthetics, and in fact a kind of art form.

    

   

 

 Zen Box is composed of a group of art professionals in pursuit of contemporary art. 

They endeavor to combine different arts that inform daily life. 

 Address:  Auburndale  NY11358  Tel:               917-412-2831         917-412-2831 fax: 815-461-2831  

 http://www.zenboxny.com      E-mail: luchialee@zenboxny.com

 

 

  

 

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Forum

論壇對話

 

 

Beyond Measure

見仁見智

 

The fragments of traditional heritage are revival only through consistent use of contemporary interpretation, and to reach international recognition. Beyond measure, aims to elevate the awareness and appreciation of the creativity and frosting dialogue among broad communities using creative ways to integrate of the historical ideas, by crossing the boundary of region and time to encourage the reflection of mutual understanding globally.

 

Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden

Artist Talk

May 16, 2009  4-6pm 

Chelsea Art Museum

 

 

 

Meditation in Contemporary Landscape

Lecture

Artist Rountable

Godwin Ternbah Museum, Queens College

November 15, 2008

6pm

 

*Outside In

Panel Discussion

February 21, 2008

5-7pm

Columbia University

Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in NY

 

 

 

*Back to the Garden

Artist Roundtable

March 22, 2008

Crossing Art, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 An intricate web connects us to myriad people, places and things.
Erase all those connections: how much of you is left?
Individuals can be very misguided.
So can societies.
Individuals can go mad.
So can societies.
Think free.
Think

                --- http://www.7stones.com/

 

 

Essay 2009

 

Dream in a Asian Contemporary Secret Garden

 

Luchia Meihua Lee

 

Treatment of gardens has evolved into a genre featuring many aspects of nature: flowers, trees, water, and fauna – all of which are messages to the dreamer. Gardens are realms of longing, both spiritually and physically, and one expects them to be pleasant, visually colorful, or playful.  These qualities and other more surprising ones are evinced in the work of these 24 Asian artists who challenge the mainstream culture discourse that relegates Asian contemporary art to a curiosity. Their collective oeuvre elucidates the diversity of experiences and culture that may be grouped together under the rubric of Asian contemporary art, Gardens change according to the season and as a result of human involvement. They are moving landscapes, and children’s wonderlands, where fairy tales start. More frequently grounded in literary contexts, Asian gardens provide meeting places for poets, scholars, and literati; and mystical legend love stories flower in the back garden........................

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