New exhibition of paintings by Lin Kui-hua opens at Tainan Art Museum
New exhibition of paintings by Lin Kui-hua opens at Tainan Art Museum
2024-06-17
A new exhibition of paintings by Lin Kui-hua is on show at Tainan Art Museum. The “Shared Vision” show features closely observed paintings of social interactions, and examines the impact of technology on daily life. Lin was formerly a business entrepreneur, and has turned to painting full-time in later life. Her delicate style is full of wry commentary on society as well as humans’ connection to the land.
Lin Kui-hua’s paintings depict the huge changes wrought on everyone’s lives by the advent of consumer technology, and the new face of contemporary society.
Lin Kui-hua
Artist
This is our era. Sometimes we paint in order to leave a record of the era.
This painting, “Hide and Seek,” depicts a child hiding in a closet, who eavesdrops on the goings on in the wider world. But his bare feet are poking out into view, proving his existence. This painting is in the collection of a Japanese business owner, and was lent specially to the exhibition so it could be made available to the wider public.
Lin Kui-hua
Artist
We often say that people need to maintain a “beginner’s mind.” I think I regain that kind of feeling from these children.
Lin was formerly a junior high school teacher and pursued further studies in the U.S., then working in the import-export business. She and her husband founded an electronics company in the U.S. But in her leisure time, she never lost her love for painting. She studied painting in America and returned to Taiwan to take up painting full-time more than a decade ago.
Lin Kui-hua
Artist
I didn’t want to be an amateur painter, because only by getting into the professional workplace could I come into contact with professionals, and learn the real conditions that should be met. So this is how I’ve spent the last decade or more.
Li Chung-liang
Husband of Lin Kui-hua
Every day, she says to me, “As a painter you can’t just paint the same thing over and over again.” So she’s constantly finding something new to do, just like when we were in business.
The works in this exhibition use fine brushwork and innovative framing to explore fine observations of society and social dynamics.
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企業家變身藝術家 林桂華作品流露對人文.土地關懷
2024-06-17
從企業家變身藝術家的林桂華，在台南南美館一館，展出「共同視界」畫展。超過百幅作品，呈現畫家對今日生活，與社會現象的細微觀察，從林桂華細膩的畫作中，充分流露對人文，以及土地和環境的關懷。
強調時下3C產物，對男女老幼的巨大改變，林桂華描繪出現今生活的樣態。
[[畫家 林桂華]]
“這個就是時代，有時候我們繪畫會講說，就為這個時代留一個記錄”
至於這幅躲貓貓，則是描繪了那個曾經隱身在環境，躲在櫥櫃裡的孩子，在置身事外的聆聽著外圍動靜的同時，卻有一雙露了餡的腳丫子，成了存在的證據。這幅已經被日本企業主收藏的畫作，林桂華特別借展出來，讓參觀民眾一飽眼福。
[[畫家 林桂華]]
“我們常常說人要保有赤子之心，所以我就從這些小孩子身上，好像回復到那種感覺”
林桂華曾任國中教師，赴美進修後，從事進出口貿易，和夫婿在美國創設電子公司，但她工作之餘，難以忘情繪畫，在美國修習繪畫後，十多年前返台成為了專職的畫家。
[[畫家 林桂華]]
“我不想做一個業餘的(畫家) ，因為我要進入一個專職的職場，我才能夠接觸到這些專業的，才能夠學到真正的，這方面應該具備的條件，所以就這樣投入十幾年”
[[林桂華夫婿 李忠良]]
“她每天都跟我講，當畫家一定不能畫一種畫就畫到底，所以她不斷的，一定要去創新，跟我們做企業一樣”
林桂華這次展出的系列作品，把對人類社會樣態的關注，以及對社交活動的深刻觀察，都藉著細膩的筆觸和創意的展現，呈現在所有觀賞者的面前。
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