Yi Yun Art Jinhua

Yi Yun Art was established in 2016 on Taipei’s artistic and historical Qingtian Street. With a focus on “contemporary interpretations of classic eastern aesthetics,” Yi Yun Art has explored the impacts and boundaries between classic and contemporary ideas throughout the six years since its establishment. Yi Yun Art focuses on 20th-century Asian calligraphy and painting, as well as contemporary artists, exploring ways of positioning artists in the context of art history and new chapters of ink art and calligraphy, introducing contemporary artworks with eastern undertones while presenting rich perspectives for aesthetic appreciation. Yi Yun Art stresses the connection between art and life, spaces and people, and attempts to include the senses in its curations. The 2018 exhibition “Yi Yun Xiang - An Exhibition of Incense Recipes” includes visual and olfactory experiences, incorporating contemporary calligraphy, poems on scent, and Yi Yun Art’s incense recipes to present a display that reimagines incense culture in contemporary contexts. The exhibition was a milestone for the gallery, the artist, and the entire market. Yi Yun Art has participated in ART TAIPEI for three consecutive years since 2020, and our endeavors to introduce local artists to Asia and the world have been positively received. In 2022, Yi Yun Art presented several exhibitions showcasing contemporary ink art, calligraphy, and sustainability through eastern philosophy. “Sequence in good time – Solo Exhibition of Liang Zhao-Xi” features how France-based Chinese artist Liang Zhao-Xi creates paintings using charcoal pens, showcasing the contemporary breakthroughs of ink art; “Bu Zi's Astonishing Calligraphy Arts” focuses on selected works that the calligrapher created between 1993 and 2012, illustrating how the free-spirited, contemporary “Sacred Wild Cursive” developed from the rigid structures of traditional calligraphy. “Symbiosis: Seed 2.0 Art for a Sustainable Future - grand tour - Taiwan” harnesses the eastern philosophy of “Unity of Heaven and Humanity” to redefine sustainability, reconciling human beings and nature. At the end of 2022, Yi Yun Art presented the critically acclaimed “How can we live without this gentleman? Cheng Tsai-Tung Solo Exhibition,” introducing new interpretations of ink in contemporary painting. Through Cheng’s works, including A new account of tales of the world triptych, Four Panels of Gold and Green Landscape Series, and Tribute to Chirico series, this curation tackles the interaction between eastern and western classics and their contemporary configurations, as well as its run-in with the contemporary collection system, achieving impressive results and receiving positive responses.