Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Tang-Wei Hsu
Tang-Wei Hsu (born 1980 in Changhua, Taiwan) currently lives and works in Taipei. He obtained an MFA in Architecture at the Tainan National University of the Arts. Hsu’s paintings begin from an imagined fantasy space extending into installation, sculpture and public art.
Hsu’s solo exhibitions include Sphere of Planetesimals, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2011; Evolutionism, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008; Dredging up the drift, ITPARK Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006; Fantasy, the Art Center of Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2005 and Follower, SLY Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004. Group
exhibitions include Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan, 2009; CIGE 2009, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China, 2009. Hsu was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Artist Abroad Subsidy, 2009 and the National Culture and Arts Foundation Creative Subsidy, 2009.
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space No.1, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 44 × 63 in. (111.76 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Tang-Wei Hsu, Unknown World Of Distance, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 63 × 44 × 13/8 in. (160.02 × 111.76 × 3.56 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space, 2008, Installation, 551 × 157 in. (1399.54 × 398.78 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Tang-Wei Hsu, Monster Of My Imagine, 2010, Mixed media, 295 × 118 × 98 in. (749.3 × 299.72 × 248.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Tang-Wei Hsu, Strange Stars No.11, 2010, Ink on paper, 94 × 47 in. (238.76 × 119.38 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2011: North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Elmar Hermann
Elmar Hermann’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by linguistic concepts as a differentiating factor between culture and nature. Hermann is currently working on an ongoing project featuring various aspects of collaboration, language and education as a complex processes of human culture acquisition.
Elmar Hermann (born 1978 in Neuwied, Germany) studied with Rita McBride at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany and holds an MA in Linguistics from Düsseldorf University. Recent exhibitions include Biblioteca Albertina Leipzig, Germany; Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul, Turkey; and Villa Romana, Florence, Italy. Hermann is part of the artist collective NÜANS which is soon to present the artist book APOGEE (Revolver Publishers, Berlin, 2011) in upcoming shows at J.B. Jurve Gallery, Los Angeles; BAS, Istanbul; BRAENNEN, Berlin; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Goethe Institut, Mumbai, India.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon at Olive Street Garden: Elmar Hermann and Firoz Mahmud
June 7, 2011
Elmar Hermann, Abrakadabra, 2010, Neon sign on acrylic glass, 51 × 15 in. (129.54 × 38.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Elmar Hermann, Vater Und Sohn / LOST (No 7 Of 8), 2010, Screen print, 35 × 35 in. (88.9 × 88.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Elmar Hermann, Vater Und Sohn / LOST (No 3 Of 8), 2010, Screen print, 35 × 35 in. (88.9 × 88.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Elmar Hermann, Kosuth / Tarzan, 2009, Collage and paint, 7 × 9 in. (17.78 × 22.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Elmar Hermann, Every Man For Himself, 2010, C-Print, 23 × 31 in. (58.42 × 78.74 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2011: Anonymous
Armando Mariño Calzado
Armando Mariño Calzado’s recent work is a statement about the representation and the visual consumption of violence inflicted by nature or by humankind. In his work, new media has not only granted the technical possibility for the explicit depiction of violence but also for shortening the time and enlarging the space between the fact and its visual impact. Taking explicitness, immediacy and omnipresence as essential aesthetic values in contemporary society, his work reflects on the role of painting with respect to current aesthetics of violence.
Armando Mariño Calzado (born 1968 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) has studied at the School of Art in Santiago, Cuba, the High Pedagogical Intitute of Arts in Havana, Cuba and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Holland. Recent projects include Keloids, Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA; Without Mask, Contemporary Afro Cuban Art, South Africa and Cuban Avant Garde, The Howard Farber Collection, Katonah Art Museum, NY.
Armando Mariño Calzado, Beautiful World, 2007, Installation image, Dimensions variable
Armando Mariño Calzado, Platform1, 2009, Oil on canvas, 63 × 122 in. (160.02 × 309.88 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Armando Mariño Calzado, The Hole, 2005, Oil on linen, 78 × 92 in. (198.12 × 233.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Armando Mariño Calzado, The Panda Who Cannot Speak, 2010, Charcoal on paper, 47 × 59 in. (119.38 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Armando Mariño Calzado, Untitled, 2010, Charcoal on paper, 39 × 59 in. (99.06 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist
