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Chuang Che 莊喆
Moon Eater 食月者
1967
Chuang Che was a leading member of the modernist Fifth Moon Society in Taiwan between 1958 and 1972, and he experimented with reinventing calligraphy and landscape forms throughout his career. Moon Eater was created during a residency in New York. Inspired by the United States moon landings that had begun to seize the American popular imagination, the work reflects Chuang’s new artistic environs, styles, and materials. It demonstrates his pioneering work with diverse colours on the picture surface, a direction in part influenced by his encounter with Willem de Kooning’s abstract expressionist paintings.
Moon Eater was assembled by marking cotton paper fragments with ink, fixing them to the surface with cow-hide glue, and then adding ink and oil paints. Its abstract forms highlight Chuang’s departure from his earlier landscape compositions. By using ink as just one element in a collage, the work is a deliberate resistance to the traditional application of calligraphic ink strokes. The result is a canvas that is blunt and forceful, that combines textures and wash, and that is layered yet flat, simultaneously reflecting and refuting the landscape tradition in which Chuang was immersed.
Moon Eater was assembled by marking cotton paper fragments with ink, fixing them to the surface with cow-hide glue, and then adding ink and oil paints. Its abstract forms highlight Chuang’s departure from his earlier landscape compositions. By using ink as just one element in a collage, the work is a deliberate resistance to the traditional application of calligraphic ink strokes. The result is a canvas that is blunt and forceful, that combines textures and wash, and that is layered yet flat, simultaneously reflecting and refuting the landscape tradition in which Chuang was immersed.
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