天鵝下蛋 ，1988，畫布油彩，150 x 120 cm x 2

NADA New York18 – 21 May, 2023
548 W 22nd St, New York侯俊明 Hou ChunMing

Each Modern 亞紀畫廊很榮幸宣布首次參加 2023 年美國紐約 NADA 藝術博覽會。作為台灣唯一參展畫廊，亞紀畫廊將於國際藝術重鎮之一紐約帶來台灣重要中生代藝術家侯俊明的早期油彩繪畫，及近期花布系列作品，呈現藝術家數十年深厚的創作脈絡。

侯俊明早期歷經了台灣社會文化快速變革的時期，其八零年
代創作雖正逢台灣解嚴前後，但關乎的卻並非是對當下社會
環境解放及大我的回應，而是對身處亞洲社會框架下的身體、性與小我深刻地直面探問，以及與禁忌的碰撞、對傳統
美學的挑戰。透過極具個人特色和視覺震撼性的表現方式，
侯俊明成為當時台灣前衛藝術的重要人物之一，也是台灣當
代藝術中探索人性慾望及情色的先鋒。然而，侯俊明作品中的性與暴力代表的不單單只是藝術家私人的慾望展現，如此藝術表現，也是同時是以激烈衝撞的姿態呼應著時代下人們對於從威權中解放身體的渴望。

鐘聲，1988，胚布、炭筆，142.5 x 110.5 cm

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35年後，侯俊明重新審視並回復到了繪畫創作的狀態，其近年的花布繪畫作品串連了藝術家在充滿突破力量的創作生涯
中，曾經出現過的諸多元素，並加入以當下國際氛圍與在地花布對話而產生的新圖示；同時，花布的挑選環繞著藝術家近年
來對私密情慾與童年回憶的關注，其中多幅作品以刺繡完成，
猶如木板刻劃線條的樣貌也回應了他自1990年代起專注的版
畫創作。
時代的變遷讓藝術家在創作上產生了有趣的對照，但無論在哪個時空，這些強烈、特立獨行的「侯俊明式」圖像依舊坦蕩、
狂癲也粗暴記載著長久以來被忽略或被刻意隱藏的個人私密，也揭示了下個世代該如何正視抗爭、諷刺、揶揄，尋找關於人「真正自由」的狀態。

天地合抱，2022，花布刺繡，42 x 42 cm

關於藝術家
侯俊明，1963年出生於台灣嘉義縣六腳鄉，以「六腳侯氏」署名。畢業於國立藝術學院（現改制為國立台北藝術大學）美術系第一屆，曾於1995年及2013年受邀參加威尼斯雙年展等國際大展，並於2008年起陸續於橫濱、台北、台中、曼谷、嘉義及香港等城市進行訪談創作計畫。侯俊明的作品獲路德維國際藝術論壇館、日本福岡亞洲美術館、香港M+博物館、台北市立美術館、高雄市立美術館、國立台灣美術館、台南市立美術館、帝門藝術教育基金會、玟秀收藏室、伍角船板、白兔美術館
等單位收藏。

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Swan Laying Eggs, 1988, oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm x 2

NADA New York18 – 21 May, 2023
548 W 22nd St, New YorkHou ChunMing

Each Modern is pleased to present a solo booth of works by one of Taiwan’s most important
contemporary artists, Hou ChunMing at NADA New York 2023, featuring his early oil oncanvases from 1986 along with his latest printed fabric paintings made in 2021 and 2022.
Like his peers, Hou’s careerspans a period of rapid socialand cultural change in Taiwan.
In
contrasttothemass
movements
andaggressiveopposition prevalent in his time,
Hou’s art preciously carries thesensibility of a generation. Hou's
early works in the 1980s
coincided with the lift of martial
law, but rather than responding(L) Oops, 1986, acrylic, ink and pencil onfloral cloth, 100 x 95 cm(R) Double Blue, 2022, acrylic on floral
cloth, 110 x 84 cm

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to the emancipation of society and the 'larger self,' Hou's response is a collision of the taboos
regarding body, sexuality, and ego in Asian society, as well as a rebellion challenges thetraditional academic aesthetics. The sex and violence in Hou’s works are no longer his private
desire - they are the topics that the public refuses to address. With his impactful themes and visualexpressions, Hou became one of the leading figures in Taiwan's avant-garde artists at the time,
and the first and most significant one who explored the eroticism of human desire in Taiwanesecontemporary art.

After 35 years of making art, Hou reflected on hiscareer and shifted back to painting. In 2021 and2022, he created a series of printed fabric paintings hemade with elements he had developed previously.
Through combining the present international context
with local printed fabric, Hou also created a series ofbrand-new images. The choice of the fabric could beseen as his recent focus on desire and childhood. In theseries, many works are made with embroidery,recalling the lines of the woodcut prints he has
produced since the 1990s. What these ‘Hou-styled’
images bring to light is not only a future reference ofopposing, satirizing, and teasing, they also express thestatus of an artist who is nearly 60 years old.

Six Legs Muse, 2022
embroidery thread on floral cloth, 42 x 42 cm

Hou ChunMing 's works are not about clean and gorgeous contemporary expression, nor about
the grandiosity of the overwhelming group consciousness, but recordings of private secrets thathave been long ignored or hidden, and the liberation of the body. Such practice reveals how thenext generation should face the rivalry, irony, and sarcasm and look for ‘true freedom’ forhuman beings.
About the artist
Hou ChunMing (b.1963, Taiwan) was invited to exhibit at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and2013, and his interviewing project, which started in 2008, has been done in Yokohama, Taipei,Taichung, Bangkok, Chiayi, and Hong Kong. His artwork can be found in the collections of The
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, M+ in Hong Kong, Taipei FineArts Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum ofFine Arts, Dimension Endowment of Art, Wenhsiu Collection, Five Dime, and White Rabbit
Gallery.

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