The exhibition was a collaboration between the calligrapher 董陽孜 and several architects. Each architect created an installation that drew inspiration from the calligraphy. It was an interesting show. Below are three of the installations.
Architect 阮慶岳 created a skeletal house with real and fake plants.
The design actually reminded me of Robert Venturi's Franklin Court project in Philadelphia.
Architect 簡學義 designed a minimal space where two opposing walls were lined with white lights. A small hole was cut on each of those two walls to allow images to be projected into the space. Visitors were handed fans to catch the images.
I quite liked the idea but I wished there were more than two holes; it would have been more dynamic if the images moved around in the space.
The installation that I liked the best was by 陳瑞憲. He created an abstract landscape that consisted of a white "mountain" and a black "lake". The lake was actually a giant inkwell.
On one side of the inkwell were calligraphies by 董陽孜 and on the other side was a long table and a bench for visitors to practice their own calligraphy. The space was not only very dramatic but also interactive.
Is that Vera at the ink lake?
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