The 9th Very Fun Park exhibition, organised annually by Fubon Art Foundation, is taking place across the eastern part of Taipei City and Songshan Cultural and Creative Park until 14 September.
“Pip & Pop” by Tanya Schultz (11am to 7pm Monday to Sunday)
Exhibition number: 1-3
Location: East Tobacco Factory, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Australian artist Tanya Schultz works under the name Pip & Pop to create super-colourful artworks from materials such as sugar, glitter, sweets, toy animals, plastic flowers, and everyday craft materials.
Pip & Pop carpets the factory floor with colour sugar, and in a beautiful aesthetic visual illusion, emphasizes the basic values created by the century of excess. Amongst the seemingly romantic and colourful inebriation, the artist sneaks in the problem of excess and scarcity.
(Pip & Pop) Photo courtesy of the artists and Fubon Art Foundation
“Eurydice Lost” by Buff Diss (8am to 10pm Monday to Sunday)
Exhibition number: 05
Location: Cultural Corridor, Taipei New Horizon
At first look, despite its clean and concise lines, it’s the attention to detail that stands out in the work of street artist Buff Diss. Only on approach do you realize that it’s not spray paint, but tape. Buff Diss uses tape to make graffiti, which displays a Greek myth transformed into contemporary philosophical thought.
In a corridor space of the Taipei New Horizon Building, the artist portrays the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. After Eurydice died of snakebite, Orpheus played a song so sad that he won over the underworld gods with his music. The gods allowed Eurydice to return with him to earth on one condition: he should not look back until they both had reached the upper world. However in his anxiety Orpheus couldn’t resist disobeying the instruction, causing Eurydice to disappear. For Buff Diss, the myth represents the struggle of an artist in trusting his inspiration: when you run into self-doubt, you should keep marching onward to reach spiritual freedom.
