Size：570 X 300CM
Material：Oil on Canvas
Year：2015
Intro：
Artist Peng Hung-Chih’s “Taichi 24 Postures” follows his recent series “Post Inner Scripture” and he creates the largest size of oil painting ever in his artist career for the hotel lobby. The “Post -Inner Scripture” series is an audience participation-based performance art, inspired by “Neijing Tu”, an ancient illustration of human’s meridian system and it represents the essence of wellness and meditation practice in Daoism. He sometimes invites performance artists or his 6 years old and 4 years old daughters to splash or drop oil colours on canvas. Peng takes automatic drawing as core concept and illustrates figurative details on abstractive composition by meticulous painting techniques. It is a constant movement to assemble abstract Qi (life energy) on canvas.
When Peng started making “Taichi 24 Postures”, he laid canvas on the ground first and made a white circle splash on canvas. He held a long shaped paint brush and performed the 24 postures simplified form of Taichi Chuan at same time on canvas. Long shaped paint brush moved along with artist’s body movement and created rhythmic lines,splash dots and ink spreading on canvas. Peng completes Taichi’s spirit, which integrates physical external with meditative internal harmoniously on large scale canvas. Invisible Qi turns out very powerful momentum as well as astronomical circle.

Artist Intro：

• Peng, Hung Chih
• 1969 Born in Taipei City, Taiwan, live and work in Taipei and Beijing.
• 1992 BFA, National Taiwan Normal University
• 1997 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
• Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2013 [Post Inner Scripture─Peng Hung-Chih Solo Exhibition], Art Issue Projects,Taipei,Taiwan
• 2009 [Propaganda], Art Issue Projects, Beijing,China
  [God Pound], Musee Guimet, Paris,France
  [200 years], IT Park Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
• 2008 [Hung-Chih Peng], Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco,USA
• 2007 [Hung-Chih Peng], MIT List Visul Art Center, Massachusetts,USA
• 2006 [Beware of GOD], IT Park Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
• 2002 [Little Danny], O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria
• 2001 [Gou-Dong-Xi], IT Park Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
• 1998 [Expansion Underground], Southern Exposure, San Francisco,USA
• Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2014 [Illusory Contour: Dual Exhibition of Hung-Chih Peng & Kira Kim], Art IssueProjects,Taipei,Taiwan
  [Taipei Biennial 2014: the Great Acceleration], Taipei Fine Arts Museum,Taipei,Taiwan
  [”The Pioneers ” of Taiwanese Artists, 1961～1970 (Review)], National TaiwanMuseum of Fine Arts,Taichung, Taiwan
• 2013 [What’s ahead :Contemporary Sculpture of Taiwan in Post-Expansion Era
• FORMOSASculpture Biennial 2013], Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• 2012 [Contemporary Taiwan Revisited I-Constant Dynamism], Art Issue Projects,Taipei, Taiwan
• 2010 [Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York], Museum of Chinese in America,New York,USA
• 2011 [Moving Image in China 1988 - 2011], Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai,China
• 2009 [Manimal], National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow,Russia
• [Art in Busan 2009: Inter-City], Busan Museum of Art, Busan,Korea
  [The Epic in the Everyday], PAN Palazzo della Arti Napoli, Naples,Italy
  [Taiwanpics.doc], ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Paris,France
  [Spectacle- to Each His Own], Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei,Taiwan
• 2008 [Home-Taiwan Biennial 2008], National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,Taichung, Taiwan
  [Reflective Asia - The 3rd Nanjing Tiennial], Nanjing Museum, China
  [In Between - Asian Video Art Weekend], Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
• 2007 [10th International Istanbul Biennial], Istanbul, Turkey
  [Taiwan: From within the Mist], Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science,Sioux Falls, South Dakota / Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contempo rary Asian Art / Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center and Ransbury Gallery, University of Indianapolis, Indiana / the Illges Gallery, Columbus State University,Georgia / the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
  [Remote/ Control], Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai,China
• 2006 [Happy Believer", 7. Werkleitz Biennale, German
  [Taipei/ Taipei: Views and Points], Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei,Taiwan
  [Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai], Silpalorn University, Bangkok,Thailand
• 2005 [Two Asias, Two Europes], Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai,China
  [Archaeology of The Future-The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art], Nanjing Museum,China
• 2004 [The Era of Contention: Contemporary Taiwanese Visual Culture],Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York,USA
  [City Odysseys: Loosing and Lost], Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung
• 2003 [Time After Time], Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco,USA
• 2002 [The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale], Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
• 2001 [Labyrinth of Pleasure-Childhood Revisited], Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei,Taiwan
• Awards, Grants, Visiting Artist and Residency
• 2007 The 5th Taishin Art Award, Taishin Bank Foundation of Arts and Culture, Taiwan
• 2005 Visiting Artist, New York Studio Program
• 2003 Artist Residency, The International Studio And Curatorial Program, New York
• 2002 Artist Residency, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria
• 2001 Artist Residency, Hong Kong Arts Center
• 1998 "SOCA Award”, Society of Contemporary Art, Taipei
• Public Collections
• Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
• Foundazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
• National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
• Taipei Fine Arts Museum
• Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art
• DSL Collection