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Tsai Ken(1950-)
Buddha Without Form II
Reference Price NT$ 720,000
Selling Price NT$ 720,000
SOLO──Tsai Ken

Tsai Ken(1950-)

Buddha Without Form II

2007

30x20x165cm

Mixed media

Publication
The Great Form Without Shape Tsai Ken 2009 Solo Exhibition: Main Trend Gallery, 2009, p76-77
Reference Price
NT$ 720,000
Selling Price
NT$ 720,000
  • About Work
  • About Artist
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About Work

The “Buddha without Form Series” originated from the wire that Tsai unconsciously wound in his studio. The wire gradually took shape, and Tsai saw it somewhat resembling the Buddha’s head, so he created the imagery accordingly. The Buddha’s head was roughly outlined owing to the limitations of winding wire by hand, yet the viewers can immediately recognize it, hence his idea of “Buddha without form.”

 

Tsai believes that, in the Chinese world, the Buddha’s image has been deeply rooted in people’s mind. Most people can recognize it just by looking at it from a distance. Therefore, the Buddha has no exact, concrete image, viz., the “Buddha without form.” Art critic Liao Ren-I further commented that the form of Tsai’s “Buddha without Form Series” is faintly discernible, “implying that the greatness of the Buddha does not lie in his form,” “devoutness should not be confined to image,” and “it’s not so much his image as his teaching that renders the Buddha divine.”

About Artist

Tsai Ken
Tsai Ken
蔡根
1972
Graduated from National Academy of Arts (National Taiwan University of Arts), Taipei, Taiwan
1950
Born in Taipei, Taiwan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Thus Have I Seen, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
Wandering in the Creative Play of Forms and Materials, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, TNUA, Taipei
2014
IT LOOKS LIKE ART, Tamsui Art Gallery, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2010
Forty Years of Forming, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2009
The Great Form Without Shape, Main Tread Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
Still Life, Main Tread Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2000
Round Melon; Melon Ground, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1998
Tsai Ken’s Talking, National Tsing Hua University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
1997
Beyond the Horizon; Beyond the Form, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1996
Lineplay, Taipei County Culture Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1995
C’est La Vie, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1993
Tsai Ken 1993, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1990
Double Solo Exhibitions, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Purchase Info

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