EAST meets WEST at 12 o'clock - 12點整 東方與西方相遇

"East meets West at 12 o'clock - 12點整 東方與西方相遇" (2018)
157x50cm (61.8x19.7") N. 40
Acrylic and oil on canvas - 壓克力顏料,油畫顏料,畫布

I met a man, a gentleman. It was a short time ago, on a Sunday, around noon.
We spoke of his country, a beautiful island, a pearl of the Orient, he sang sweet Italian songs, we ate food from both our countries and cheered together with the other friends we were dining with.
Later I showed him my works and we stopped before this one.
It was an allegory of our encounter. I found out how much I like this painting that I rediscovered and looked with different eyes from those who had seen it painted.
Indeed, after a while, art doesn't belong anymore to the moment and the artist who brought it into existence.
He liked it too, for reasons which are not for me to fathom.
In a moment when art is considered more as an investment than for the pleasure it may offer to our daily lives, it's good to know that from now on someone else will enjoy it, too.

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HISTORY 53 - 2014 - VISITOR'S VISA

In a moment of dire consequences, Susumu 進, the Japanese Koi, undertook the perilious challenge to follow the bureaucratic path and get all the necessary documents to come and visit the city. In order to combine business and pleasure, he took this chance to help solve the catastrophic moral failure affecting the labour market, without asking for whatsoever reward or monetary remuneration. To him go the citizenry's enduring affection and gratitude.

MMXIV

Fish: Koi - Menkaburi Kohaku

2014 - Acrylic and oil on canvas 80x30cm (31.5x11.81")

A new painting in the 'History' series. More will follow...

WELCOME! - 歡迎, 歡迎!

Welcome! (When the clownfish from Turtle Island went to Keelung)
歡迎, 歡迎! (當小丑魚從海龜島去到基隆)

It was a fine day to go and see friends and the Ketagalan always had nice stories to tell.

那是一個風和日麗探訪朋友的好日子, 凱達格蘭人總有說不完的好故事.


2013 Acrylic and oil on canvas

100x60cm (39.37x23.62")

 

THAT IDEA: THE QUIET REVOLUTION - 2012

"Ci avevo già pensato prima io." - "Non è vero, sei solo invidioso."

"I had already thought of it first." - "You liar, you're just envious." 

 ”這個點子我已經先想到了。”  ”你說謊，你只是嫉妒!“

50x50cm (16.7X16.7")

Acrylic on canvas

A painting included in the series "MOVEMENTS" displayed at Open Box Art Gallery in Taichung - Taiwan in November 2012.