A Cross-Disciplinary Art Feast: Dong Yangzhi’s "Silent Symphony · Variations" Premieres Now

By MOOK Scenic Spots Family Travel Life Network, reported by Chen Guanxin

Dong Yangzhi, a renowned calligraphic artist in Taiwan’s contemporary art scene, following her 2009 exhibition "Boundless Ink Charm," will once again present “Public Art Installation Project of the City Gateway Art Museum Park – Dong Yangzhi: 'Silent Symphony · Variations'” at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts from today through October 14. Co-curated with architect Huang Yiching and musician Lee Shou-chuan, the exhibition utilizes the space of the KMFA Sculpture Hall to arrange and combine a hundred calligraphy works into a unified piece, which audiences can appreciate from various heights and angles within the museum. Additionally, an outdoor concert will be held tomorrow evening (31st) on the plaza in front of the museum, featuring diverse performances by musicians such as Lim Shiong Hsiang and Chang Hsuan, accompanied by projections of the calligraphy works onto screens, creating an overlapping visual and auditory art experience for the public.

In 2011, Dong Yangzhi selected 100 character forms she had previously collected and couldn’t bear to discard, had them mounted, and was inspired by the different brushstrokes—such as the flying white spaces and varying ink densities created through the dynamic interplay of light and heavy, fast and slow strokes—to draw parallels with the rhythm and musicality of flowing music. Thus, she named this series of works "Silent Symphony." These hundred ink dots are categorized according to their different expressions, including those with bold, thick, and forceful strokes; those with swift, lively lines full of movement and rotation; and those interspersed with ample white space and occasional ink dots or strokes. The installation even deliberately inverts some of the works upside down, allowing the hundred pieces, when composed as a “variation,” to exhibit changes, densities, contrasts, weights, and themes much like a painting.

Architect Huang Yiching took advantage of the Sculpture Hall’s spacious and lofty unique space at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, arranging the hundred works into a unified piece. The display design cascades downward like a waterfall, not only evoking the grandeur of “the Yellow River’s waters descending from the heavens,” but also utilizing the surrounding corridors on different floors of the museum hall to offer visitors varied vantage points and more diverse perspectives and methods of viewing.

Furthermore, this exhibition merges the concepts of calligraphy art and musical creation. With musician Lee Shou-chuan serving as music director, an outdoor concert will be held tomorrow evening (31st) at 19:30. Works from the "Silent Symphony" series will be projected onto screens as a backdrop, emerging, receding, lingering, or drifting along with the music performed by various artists, overlapping into scenes and shadows. There will also be diverse musical performances by artists such as Lim Shiong Hsiang, Chang Hsuan, VOX Play Vocal Band, Lu Chia-hung, Fan Tsung-pei, and Su Tzu-yin, allowing concertgoers to enjoy not just music but also a visual feast. Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts: www.kmfa.gov.tw.

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