JOHANNES ZITS  EDWARD PIEN

尤漢           邊亦中

短 暫 迴 響

兩位加拿大藝術家的新作

為期一週『短暫迴響』畫展，是兩位來自加拿大藝術家的作品，這些新作是他們來台四個月的最新作品。

邊亦中 Edward Pien 1958台北出生 華裔加拿大人

  28年前移民加拿大，15、16年前已在加拿大、美國、荷蘭舉行多次展覽，此次主題是他在台灣的所見所聞，其作品有帶有黑色幽默的味道，每次展覽都有上百幅畫作，都是其對台灣生活的體驗及影響。邊亦中先生原本在加拿大溫哥華Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design教書，為了以後三個大型的個人展，停掉學校一年的課程，專門回台研究本土文化，雖然在台灣出生，此次卻是第一次在台展覽。

尤漢Johannes Zits 1955年荷蘭出生 加拿大人

  第一次來台，作畫已有15年，在加拿大、荷蘭舉辦過許多次展覽。在台主要是想探索中國的水墨畫畫法，由於它的畫作較抽象，筆畫流暢，表達方式也較豪放活潑，尤其是在表達人與人之間日常生活的關係，並試著在找尋公開場合和親密場合之間的界線，主題雖然簡單、平常，但要表達其中微妙的感覺是不容易的。

  最後，如果沒有賴純純小姐的協助，提供工作室讓我們安心作畫，以及新樂園藝術空間的藝術家提供場地展覽，可能就沒有此次展覽的機會，在此非常感謝他們。

新樂園藝術空間

Press Release

Temporary Residency

An exhibition of two Canadian artists

Johannes Zits & Edward Pien

Temporary Residency is a week-long exhibition by two Canadian artists Johannes Zits and Edward Pien. They will feature some two hundred of their drawings completed during their four months` stay in Taiwan.

This is Edward Pien`s first trip back to Taiwan since emigrating to Canada with his family 28 years ago, Frequently,this artist incorporates hundreds of drawings in his installations to make visually engaging works which often include elements of black humour. This exhibition is his response to Taiwan`s cultures. He has taken a year off from teaching at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver to do research for upcoming solo exhibitions in Toronto, Windsor and Montreal,Canada.The drawings at The New Paradise represent apart of this research.

Johannes Zits, a Holland-born artist,is here for the first time. A painter for over 15years,his work has been widely exhibited across Canada. His highly animated and gestural style of brushstrokes incorporates the medium of Chinese ink-brush painting with an Abstract Expressionist influence. While in Taiwan he is applying these techniques to continue his exploration of human relationships and the boundries between the public and the private. His work often depicts familiar and intimate situations.

Without the generosity of Miss Jun T. Lai, who lent her studio to these artists to provide them workspace, and the New Paradise Gallery, whose inaugural exhibition is scheduled later this month, this exhibition would not have been possible.

SLY ART SPACE