TaiShin Art Award: 2005 Top Visul Art Exhibition
Surface‧Aspect‧Container‧Volume -The hypothesis of urban architecture
This piece is a creation derived from a person’s thoughts on space and
architecture. The space, built from the surface of the earth was given the
concept of volume to create relationships with human activities. The clustered
architectural constructions on the streets are often built with scaffolds and
protected by dustcovers. This announces to the world that the street space and
mobile visual are about to change; urban landscape is going to change along with
the architecture. Similarly, the relationship between space and people will also
encounter transformation due from the structure and destroy of
architectures.
The exhibition theme ‘Surface, Aspect, Container, Volume’
needs to be broken down into four components in order to explore on the concepts
of architecture and space. ‘Surface’ not only represents the visual surface of
all objects and space but also the visual embellishments people feel towards
space or architectures. All layers pile up to deliver a surface that is
conceptually visible. The concept of ‘Aspect’, from the creator’s point of view,
is the external cover of an object’s volume; it covers the true soils, walls,
ceilings and both naturally or manually determined perpendicular and horizontal
physical concepts without the building materials or the embellishments of the
object itself. To continue the extension of visual perception, ‘Container’
further addresses the idea of space being a physical container. The internal
space, derived from the establishment of a surface, reflects from the interior
to the exterior space and therefore places itself naturally into a container.
‘Volume’ implies the scope that is physically mobile. The container volume
composed from the surface creates a mini-representation of exterior space that
allows one to access to the internal space from the routes that connects from
the exterior. The scope and restrictions of physical mobility tightly concern
the various extensions of one’s being and time.