Stone Teapot Exhibition- Liao Tian Zhao

About the artist
Liao tain Zhao is the founder of the art of creating stone carved teapots which he began 40 years ago in Taiwan. He is fastidious in the modeling of each teapot which have sense of aestheticism and practicality in that they cana lso be used for making tea. During the past 30 years he has created more than one thousand teapots; each one a different size and unique shape.

Recently he has changed to creating different styles of carving but continues to use stone as the medium. For Liao Tian Zhao stone evokes a special emotion within him. He says that life is very short for the stone, because it comes from nature, will last forever and in this way he can record his life in something solid and tangible; retaining the beauty of nature and integrate his own creative ideas.

Reference from FGY Art Gallery, Manukau, Auckland 16 Stancomb Rd.
www.fgs.org.nz

The gunpowder artist Chi Guo Qiang

I read the article about the famous gunpowder artist Cai Guo Qiang recently, and this make me more realized the meaning of creative art, and his work is so amazing, stronger, and elegant that I can not forget. He is one of mine favorites artist who used the gunpowder to create the series of compositions, also some of work which has combined with the western art, such as the oil paint.

In my point of view, the artist works harder to tried to focuses on studied the difference of gunpowder to make simple experiences on papers and canvases. And he learned to measure the fan properly to blow the wet paint, and so on.

The artist used to contribution his art can be served for socialism and revolutionary politics, however, he give up the ideology of traditional culture, then uses his own subjective idea. Also he creates the new , fresh, even dangerous art which represents the astonishing vision effect by using the gunpowder.

Furthermore, his art can described like media shower, and it represented the surprising, aesthetic, and mysterious feeling that impress me a lot. For instance, the “Project for Extraterrestrial” which he made series of work and were the most biggest project that made around the world wide. The artist believes the relationship between human and universe, then he used the “explosion” to communicate his art work can approach to the universe if sequences of explosions. Besides, the context of these work which reflection our earth problems , such as population, pollution, also he used his work to remind people to more concern our earth.

Moreover, in his famous work “Cultural Melting Bath- project for the 20th century” it was the well-known installation work that replaced by 18 of Tai Hu rocks from China, a big bathtub, and a root which was hang on the ceiling. The interesting was viewer can really have hot bath in the installation art work.

However, it is really fresh and new in artist work, as I see his work has becoming better and better that showing the new processes and new creations by using the gunpowder, and challenging to use the dangerous elements to make the compositions.

References from “Coming Up- Chi Guo Qiang,” www.anb.org.tw