Egan Frantz, Hell Gette, Huang HaiHsin, Antone Könst, Stefan Müller, Araki Nobuyoshi

Through a generation of post-war avant-garde and contemporary artists working in Taiwan, we listen to the geo-political pitter patters of the collective heart.

This new collection of silkscreen on canvas prints echo the expressionistic film genres of the1950s. The seemingly dangerous urban shadow-spaces, and the alluring red lipsticked femme fatale; these images, combined with the aesthetics of Pop Art have defined Moriyama Daido as a 21st century classic.

Art lives. Ideas endure. Each Modern is pleased to announce an all-new thematic series “New Relics.” Through the contemporary artist and the antique object, “Crossing Over” presents ideas made tangible and transmitted across cultures and time.

Xu Qu’s practice illuminates certain unseen power relations, in a potential sense as well as a kinetic and physical sense. For his first solo exhibition in Taiwan, the artist shares “LSD” series inspired by the culture of the psychedelic substance, and “Conversion” which reexamines global value systems.

Through a collection of recent works, Zhao Gang’s history painting practice is used as an examination of his own subjectivity, and of the premise of History itself.

New York-based Antone Könst uses painting, sculpture, and glyphic tablets to depict experiences in light, and the latent potential within everyday moments. With deep roots in modern art history, this series also possess a reverence for Eastern philosophy.

New York-based Taiwanese artist Hilo Chen’s “The Bather of Valpinçon” features the artist’s well-known photorealistic paintings from the late 70s as well as early works that have not been shown since his immigration to the U.S. in 1968.