- DATE : 11/06/2014
- TIME : 15:00–16:00
- VENUE : Lecture Theatre, Minto House
Prof. Pao-Shia Hsueh 薛保瑕
Artist, National Tainan University of Fine Arts
“As a messenger I move between source and pathway, until I find my destination.”
About the Artist
Pao-Shia Hsueh was born in Taichung in 1956 and received her Doctor of Art (D.A.) from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 1995. She directed the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2006-2009) and currently serves as the chair professor of Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory in Tainan National University of the Arts. Her works have been collected by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, and National Art Museum of China. Her works were recently selected in several exhibitions, including Horizon Realm: Contemporary Art From Taiwan in New York (2013), Form of Formless: Taiwan Abstract Arts in Taipei (2012). She held Flowing Reality: 2011 Abstract Art of Pao-Hsia Hsueh at National Art Museum of China in Beijing and Shanghai Art Museum.
In the artist statement crafted for her recently exhibition, Non-Zero Point (2013), Hsueh opens with: “As a messenger I move between source and pathway, until I find my destination.”
In this statement she seems determin
ed that information has its own intent and through certain channels would reach a destination. However, information that is sent and transmitted is not always successfully received and read. The coding, decoding and generation of the meaning of information has its uncertainty, especially distortion, mutation, or even loss in the process of transmission. Perhaps Hsueh intends further—she wants to emphasize her persistence and pursuit in creating abstract art. The “message” and its system of transmission and communication, refers to abstract art and its historical evolution. Through personal exploration and expansion, Hsueh attempts to establish an “information” system, and in the search of “pathways,” she is a believer and preacher of abstract art, with “its destination” as her final dwelling.