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Tsong Pu(1947-)
Pursuit
Reference Price NT$ 2,000,000
Selling Price NT$ 1,400,000
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Tsong Pu(1947-)

Pursuit

2010

112x145.5cm

Acrylic on canvas

Signature
Singed by the artist on the reverse
Publication
Tsong Pu: Main Trend Gallery, 2020, p136
Reference Price
NT$ 2,000,000
Selling Price
NT$ 1,400,000
  • About Work
  • About Artist
  • Purchase Info

About Work

[Pursuit] is a piece of Tsong's Ma Yuan at a Corner Series.

 

This art series is titled after its eponymous piece [Ma Yuan at a Corner], an artistic incarnation of Tsong Pu’s observation and insight about Southern Song landscape paintings.

 

Given the ethos of that time, the viewer may presume this work has a style as reductionist as understated; only to find that the artist manifested his seal-imprint technique in the intricate mosaics that fill the composition to the brim. Looking from a distance, you’ll see a texture with unique vein lines and joints, but you’ll find a fascinating kaleidoscope of checks when you take a close look. This work shows great creativity, even though it was created simply with shades of black, gray and white.

 

Contemporary imprints and the corner encountered through a millennium in the artist’s experiment, wherefrom they resonate with endless possibilities for interpretation.

About Artist

Tsong Pu
Tsong Pu
莊普

Tsong Pu’s career as an artist has spanned nearly 40 years since he returned from Spain in 1981, bringing him an iconic status in the Taiwanese contemporary art scene. More specific, he is not only a minimalist artist in the spotlight, but also a bellwether for material and ideational innovation in the pluralistic genealogy of Taiwanese contemporary art. His achievements and reputation rest as much upon his long-term forward-looking horizons for creation, as upon his brilliant, sui generis philosophy of art evolved from his prolific career over the past four decades.

2019
Awarded the 21st NATIONAL AWARD FOR ARTS as a visual artist
1981
Returned and settled in Taiwan
1978
Graduated from Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, Spain
1947
Born in Shanghai, China, in 1947
MAIN TREND EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Illusions of the Universe, ESLITE Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017
Against the Quotidian Tug, ESLITE Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016
Tsong Pu Large Scale Paintings 2008-2015, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
A White Stream of Consciousness, Moon Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
Multicolored Bamboo: Tsong Pu's Twelve Monologue, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China
2014
Beckoning to a Myth, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Settlement of Time, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
The Broken Light – Reading Each Other, Moon Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
The Tower of the Shining Stars, Apartment of Art, Munich, Germany
2012
Ma Yuan at a Corner, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Drifting Towards An End, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
One of 7,034,071,329, Inart Space, Tainan, Taiwan
2011
Gleamingly Gleaming, Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2010
Art from the Underground, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Estranged Rhythm, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Coordinates of The Distance, National Chung Hsing University Arts Center, Taichung, Taiwan
2008
I Hate Takashi Murakami, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
A Flood of Tender Water I Take One Only, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2005
The Spectacular Snore, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2004
I See I Seek, Warehouse 20, Taichung, Taiwan
2001
Spinning Round and Round, None Theme Park, Tainan, Taiwan
I am Sorry, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
1999
On Line, ESLITE Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1998
Tsong Pu 1998, Yuan Ze University Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
1997
You are the Beautiful Flower, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
Tsong Pu 1997, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan
1995
Name and Warehouse Nomad Museum, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
1993
Love Never Dies, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
1991
The Frontier, UP Art Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1990
A Tree A Stone and A Piece of Cloud, Doors Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The Space between Body and Soul, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1989
A Tree A Stone and A Piece of Cloud, Sala Alta Gallery, Cuenca, Spain
1985
Temptation after Meeting by Chance, Spring Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Temptation after Meeting by Chance, Ming-Men Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
1983
A Meeting of Mind and Material, Spring Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
A Meeting of Mind and Material, San-Chai Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

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