『Outside the Box! When Machine Meets Art』

奇美博物館　|　CHIMEI Museum

展覧会会期：2023.06.03-2024.02.29

◾️CHIMEI INDUSTRIAL COLLECTION SHOWCASED FOR THE FIRST TIME

◾️SUBVERT YOUR IMAGINATION WITH ART！

◾️FEATURES WORKS BY NINE PARTICIPANTS FROM SIX COUNTRIES WHOSE ARTISTIC CREATIONS EXEMPLIFIED THE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES BY THINKING “OUTSIDE THE BOX.”
01｜Wen-Long Shi (Taiwan) ｜許文龍（臺灣）
02｜James Cook (UK) ｜詹姆斯．庫克（英國）
03｜Chi-Shuan Ying (Taiwan) ｜應奇軒（臺灣）
04｜Sebastian Brajkovic (Netherlands)｜　塞巴斯蒂安．布拉伊科維奇（荷蘭）
05｜Seungmo Park (Korea) ｜朴勝模（韓國）
06｜Minako Ishikawa (Japan) ｜石川美奈子（日本）
07｜Riusuke Fukahori (Japan) ｜深堀隆介（日本）
08｜Chien-Chung Liao (Taiwan) ｜廖建忠（臺灣）
09｜Christoph Niemann (Germany) ｜克里斯托夫．尼曼（德國）

ORGANIZER　 ：奇美博物館
SPONSORS 　 ：華南銀行、奇美實業、奇景光電
COLLABORATOR：國立科學工藝博物館、國立臺灣歴史博物館、奇美文化基金曾

【INTRODUCTION TO THE EXHIBITION 】
“If one’s life is confined within a box, then one can only live in his secluded world.” This is a motto that CHIMEI Museum and Group Founder Mr. Wen Long Shi lives by. Overcoming poverty and illness in his early years, his innovative approach to business and manufacturing of acrylics earned him the title, “Father of Acrylics” in Taiwan. An avid art collector, music lover, and accomplished amateur painter, his success in business also allowed him to realize his childhood dream of building a museum. Mr. Shi’s life story exemplifies overcoming adversity to re-define one’s life by thinking “Outside the Box.”

This exhibition explores the connections between industrial innovation, social changes, and artistic creativity. Many of the Museum’s rare collection of industrial machinery and tools dating from the turn of the 20th century are showcased for the first time to the public. Outside the Box! also features works by eight contemporary artists from six different countries whose artistic creations are inspired by machine tools and industrial materials.

This exhibition aspires to challenge the viewers to think outside the “Box” of conventional artistic expression, but also tell stories of innovation and artistic creativity. There are four themes in this exhibition— “Unstrained with Infinite Possibilities,” which introduces early machines from a new perspective and also tells the life story of Shi’s thinking outside the box; “Machines Unraveled,” which shows how the use of machines can be taken to a different level. “Materials Unraveled,” which demonstrates the diverse changes of industrial materials; and “Infinity Workshop,” which offers a glimpse into the artist’s unconventional way of looking at ordinary objects.

四つの桶　和金　|　Four tubs: Nikikogane
毓繡美術館所蔵（台湾）