“Moving Ink: Tong Yang-Tze”
Curated by Fang-Wei Chang
Tong Yang-Tze’s oversize ink works recall ancient brush traditions but pulsate with au courant energy. Her “chaotic script” combines both rapid and protracted brushstrokes to render poetry in wet and parched ink densities on lengths of paper spanning up to 180 feet. The Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s entire first floor will be overtaken by these immersive genre-bending installations, offering visitors a spatial appreciation of calligraphy. Upstairs, the artist’s ink abstractions from the 1960s and ’70s will be on view alongside a rare display of early oil paintings. The