Article & Photography / MOOK Scenic Spots Travel Life Network, Chen Guanxin

Driving along the coastal highway of the North Coast, the azure seas and skies of Shallow Bay and White Veil Bay momentarily lift your spirits away from the rigid coldness of the concrete jungle, allowing you to freely roam amid the endless sound of crashing waves. Following the signs for Provincial Highway 2, you turn onto a path leading into Jinshan, until the Chu Wei Art Museum—embraced by lush greenery and adorned with white walls and black-framed windows—comes into view.

Opened in 1999, the Chu Wei Art Museum spans 11 hectares and features various themed exhibition spaces including two galleries, a Children’s Art Center, a Tai Chi Plaza, and a Science Park. It houses flat, collage, and three-dimensional works from the “Humanity Series,” “Tai Chi Series,” and more, displayed either on the indoor corridor walls at the museum entrance or in open-air exhibition areas with green grass as the flooring and the blue sky as the canopy. This not only breaks the conventional fate of artworks being confined within glass display cases but also allows viewers, as they pause to appreciate the art, to become part of the pieces themselves. At the Chu Wei Art Museum, in addition to admiring Chu Wei’s series of creations, visitors can also view masterpieces by renowned domestic and international artists such as Yang Sanlang, Liao Jichun, Salvador Dalí, and Andy Warhol.

The well-known “Humanity Series,” which takes individuals or groups as its creative subjects, is most captivating in how it uses different media to vividly depict the diversity of life through the images of ordinary people. Whether it’s chattering aunts sitting or standing together, or soldiers of the National Army standing in formation on the grass while carrying pickaxes, the use of simple lines or large block structures captures the subtle essence of everyday figures—even visitors without a deep art background can resonate with the pieces.

First Exhibition Room (perspective can be changed by dragging with the mouse):