Fubon Art Museum Presents Three Major Exhibitions

(中央社訊息服務20251220 10:23:58)Fubon Art Museum proudly presents Into Eternity: Giacometti, Miró, Calder, in addition to two exhibitions featuring highlights from the Fubon Collection—Resonance: Symphony of Light, Love & Color and Sanyu. Located on the first floor, Into Eternity showcases iconic works by three of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. On the third floor, Resonance and Sanyu together showcase the breadth of modern and contemporary art within the Fubon Collection.

Dr. Maggie Tsai, Director of Fubon Art Museum, remarked: “This has been an important year for the museum as we have continued to strengthen international collaborations, advance collection research, and expand educational programming. Through these three exhibitions, we invite visitors on a spiritual journey from contemplating existence to discovering the self.”

Into Eternity presents iconic postwar works by three pivotal figures in modern art—Giacometti, Miró, and Calder—whose creative innovations engage with existence, time, and motion. The exhibition guides visitors on a journey into their artistic universe and the dialogues between them. Celebrated cultural figure Cai Kangyong (Kevin Tsai) lends his voice and unique perspective to this special exhibition’s audio guide.

Visitors will encounter Giacometti’s Femme debout II (Standing Woman II), almost three meters tall, and Homme qui marche I (Walking Man I), which once set the record for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture at auction. Miró’s colorful painted bronze sculpture Personnage makes its debut in Asia, alongside a massive tapestry never before shown in Taiwan; his fantastical creations convey a visual language rich in rhythm and poetry. The exhibition also features Calder’s impressive large-scale standing mobile L'Empennage and mobile Trois soleils jaunes, works that reimagined sculpture as an art of motion and constant flux that transforms space.

Resonance presents selections from the Fubon Collection, bringing together 16 contemporary artists—including Damien Hirst, Georg Baselitz, Huang Kuang-nan, Paul Chiang, Ava Hsueh, Su Meng-Hung, and Jason Chi—whose works awaken direct, visceral responses to light, color, and movement. Light as a fluid presence is channeled through 22 different types of materials—including LEGO blocks, marble, neon, brass, and lacquer. This exhibition highlights the experience of the encounter, inviting visitors, as they move through the gallery space, to become attuned to their intuitive responses and emotional resonances.

Exhibition highlights include Ai Weiwei’s The Last Supper in Pink, a monumental 7-meter-wide work constructed from 370,000 LEGO blocks that reimagines Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic composition, creating a dynamic perceptual experience that transforms with each viewing perspective. Visitors will rediscover Robert Indiana’s Love—the beloved aluminum public art icon in front of Taipei 101—as a marble work on an intimate scale in this exhibition. Resonance also presents an exciting selection of paintings by Damian Elwes that meticulously recreate the studios of Picasso, Matisse, and Yayoi Kusama, offering intimate access to these creative environments and bringing us closer to these artists.

This exhibition of Sanyu continues to showcase works in the Fubon Collection that reflect cross-cultural currents in modern art. Sanyu focuses on the artist’s extensive use of pink in his paintings from his early years in Paris. Through soft colors, simple, lyrical lines and expressive brushwork, these paintings reveal the artist’s development of a unique visual vocabulary as he navigated between two cultures. In addition his better-known paintings of nudes, the exhibition features a range of still lifes and animal subjects, including Basket of Fruits and Dalmatian, which have rarely been shown since entering the collection. Fubon Art Museum’s strong holdings of early Sanyu works offer unique opportunities for research on the twentieth-century Chinese artist. Visitors are invited to explore the two Fubon Collection exhibitions, Resonance and Sanyu, accompanied by the gentle voice of Lin Chiling on the audio guide.

Through these three major exhibitions, Fubon Art Museum encourages audiences to slow their pace and contemplate the weight of existence through Giacometti’s sculptures; attune to the rhythm of their heartbeat as they move through Resonance; and experience the tenderness of life through Sanyu’s color palette.