Since 2011 the National Palace Museum in Taipei has initiated “Painting Anime.” Through the latest technology, four high-resolution 1080 HD projectors seamlessly unfold long scroll paintings on the light wall to present the classical scenery in Chinese paintings. 'Painting Anime' reproduced six popular paintings, including Up the River During Qingming (Qing court artists), Spring Morning in the Han Palace (Qiu Ying), Imitating Zhao Bosu's Latter Ode on Red Cliff (Wen Zhengming), Syzygy of the Sun, Moon, and the Five Planets (Xu Yang), Departure Herald (anonymous), Return Clearing (anonymous) and Activities of the Twelve Months (Qing court artists). Inspired by historical material related to the artworks, .....

Taiwanese printed cloth represents a simple everyday aesthetic that arises from the people’s affection for the land and their home villages. For many Taiwanese, printed cloth embodies memories of their daily life while growing up in a simple culture. In recent years, artists and creative designers have injected a new cultural spirit and appearance into printed cloth by interpreting and transforming it in their own ways. They have created contemporary works using printed cloth, yet related them to the familiar past. The exhibition at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung is divided into five sections: “Printed Cloth in History,” “Floral Fortunes,” “Grandma’s Fabric Store,” .....

For this project, five curators of contemporary art from Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau have each selected three to four active young artists from a region not their own to create separate exhibition units. Working from their own geographic and experiential specificities, the five curators made their selections with the concept of artistic exchange as a starting point to create a four-unit exhibition representing the four regions that comprise the project. The chimera in the title refers to Père David's Deer. Known as milu in Chinese, the beast is also known by its nickname sibuxiang-- literally “unlike any of the four.” This is an apt metaphor for this exhibition of works from the four regions across the China Strait, each with their own geopolitical differences as well as cultural and artistic contexts. .....

Curated by Victoria Lu, the exhibition at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung features a total of 180 exhibit works by 130 artists/teams. It focusses on the theme of Animamix, illustrating the curator's interpretation of the variety of the artists' styles and the development of contemporary art in the 21st century. Organized around the dualities of East/West, Past/Future, Yin/Yang, Universe/Individual and Virtual/Real, the exhibition looks into the processes in which Asian contemporary arts, having been inspired by traditional art forms while at the same time significantly influenced by contemporary cultural forms such as anime or other forms of popular culture and intertwined with the social, political, economic, and cultural milieus in which the artwork is produced, .....

As our imagination encourages us to believe, “cloud” is the symbol of fantasy, poetic and romantic. While we look at a floating cloud, we almost believe that no mundane thing can confine us. Freeing ourselves from the disturbance of the reality, we are indulged in the dream woven by ourselves. In the work “The City in the Sky,” exhibited at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung until July 8, 2012, Artist Wang invites viewers into a world of cloud through their perceptual experience. The white cloud is beautiful and poetic, as how we imagine it, through which we dream the most beautiful dream. .....