LONGING FOR
LONGING / Wan-Yen Hsieh
“LONGING FOR LONGING” is a solo exhibition of
the Taiwanese artist Wan-Yen Hsieh. She was
born in Taiwan, studied Chinese Literature at the National Taiwan University in
Taipei, and Fine Arts at the University Carl von Ossietzky in the 90s in Olderburg,
Germany, and has been living since 2005 in Norden-City, on the Nordsee coast.
There are in total five series of paintings and photographs to be seen in this
exhibition.
Hsieh’s
paintings present one side of an exactly constructed geometry and the other
side a free abstraction. Her longing for
something uncertain could be perceived in both trends of her works. “COLOURFUL HAIKUS”, “SPACETIME” and “LONGING
FOR LONGING” are the three series of paintings.
“I paint, therefore
I see, and in order to see the unpainted.
Each painting extends a short stroke on the timeline of my life. Most of the things I paint area spaces,
without people or objects, without a specific time or light source. Like a dream swaying between wakefulness and
sleep, searching for beauty, poetry, and a way out.
“Longing for longing. Therefore I paint.” – Wan-Yen Hsieh
One of the two
photography series is patchwork-serie, which shows collage works based on tiny
objects and the other one contains black-white photographs, mostly people in
ordinary life.
It’s still to
be mentioned: there are Haikus written down by Hsieh, which are attached to
each painting of the “COLOURFUL HAIKUS” Series 2020-23. Accompanied by this series is a book,
published that will also be presented.
