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Richard Lin 林壽宇
13 September 九月十三日
1982
Richard Lin was born in Taiwan and briefly educated in Hong Kong before moving to the United Kingdom in 1952. He studied architecture there, and developed a practice painting in primarily white on white. Although he began to work with metal and plastics after declaring that ‘painting is dead’ in 1984, he maintained a minimalist approach throughout his career. In 1976 he returned to Taiwan, where he advocated for geometric abstraction and minimalism as an alternative to modernism in China.
The clean lines of 13 September reflect Lin’s training in architecture and his interest in humanism and transcendental asceticism. The work’s different tonalities of white are punctuated by short, thin bursts of colour at uneven intervals. The narrative suggested by the work’s title is left vastly open to interpretation, a characteristic of Lin’s aesthetic, one influenced by his interest in both Taoism and abstraction.
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