For the 2022 edition of Taipei Dangdai, YIRI ARTS will presents a two-person presentation of new and significant works by Yuichi Hirako, and Shih Yung-Chun.
The personal selection, made by YIRI ARTS and titled 'My Grandfather's Clock', draws inspiration from a 19th century American nursery rhyme. The song depicts an ancient pendulum clock which has lost its function due to the successive deaths of its two owners and the pendulum stopped swinging eventually. Correspondingly, this presentation brings together two artists with a strong emphasis on 'time'. It seeks to explore the multiple meanings and historical relationships between objects and people.
Japanese artist Yuichi Hirako's paintings draw attention to the constant shifting of time and space between the urban city and the wild forest, presenting the distinct behaviour and psychological register of human beings. Taiwanese artist Shih Yung-Chun's works have a deep perception of the flow and unexpected changes of time.
Yuichi Hirako, during his studies in the UK, started focusing on recording the various types of greening habits among different cultures and nationalities. Humans stepped out of the jungle and entered the city, and return to the jungle during the holidays. The city in time has not affected the biological instinct of human beings in terms of the pursuit of their natural instincts. Somehow, the constant shifts taking place between the urban city and the wild forest have reached a distinct balance for modern people in his works.
Shih Yung-Chun, his father was an army officer from China; under his father's influence, Shih experienced the cultural fusion and reorganisation of regional alienation. He underwent the process of collecting vintage pieces, combining them into an installation, staging the scenes, and documenting them in photography and paintings. From three-dimensional to two-dimensional all-media creation, he uses his unique style to record the flow of time and the traces of life.
