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'Taiwanese Art Treasures Preserved Overseas – The homecoming Exhibition of the Sun Ten Collection'

  • Publish Date:2021-05-24
'Taiwanese Art Treasures Preserved Overseas – The homecoming Exhibition of the Sun Ten Collection'

Sun Ten Museum was founded in 1996 in commemoration of Hsu Hong-yen (許鴻源). The late pharmaceutical entrepreneur was a devoted supporter of Taiwanese artists and he had collected and preserved more than 600 pieces of artworks from Taiwanese artists when there were no public modern art museums in Taiwan.

To honor Hsu's final wish and to help reconstruct Taiwanese art history, his family donated the entire collection to Taiwan. The artworks were displayed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) in Taichung from March 20 to June 27, organized chronologically with four different themes:

I. Luxuriance
This section presents artworks which were created by artists who lived in Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule and those who were born in Mainland China and migrated to Taiwan after 1949.

II. Diversity
This section highlights a total of 43 artists born between 1921 and 1935. They lived in a period of radical change after the rise of national self-determination movements in the 1920s.

III. Brilliance
The 43 artists presented in this section were born between 1936 and 1944, many of them were deprived of education during the years of war.

IV. Emergence
This section features a total of 60 artists born between 1945 and 1989, they belong to the post-war generation and have witnessed Taiwan's social, economic and political developments.