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Wesley Tongson at gdm Taipei 

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Wesley Tongson Whispers of Myriad ValleysApr 16 – Jun 27, 2026Opening: Apr 16, 4pm – 7pm 1/F, 390 Ruiguang RoadNeihu, Taipei+886 2 7713 6696Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm galeriedumonde.com Wesley Tongson (1957–2012) transformed ink painting into a fearless act of experimentation and expression. From his early splash-ink works—pigments cascading in ecstatic rhythms—to his radical abandonment of the brush, painting instead with fingers, fingernails, and hands, Tongson made the body itself the brush. Each gesture was a performative outpouring of emotion, each mark a whisper that swelled into powerful resonance. His artistic journey unfolds as a restless search for transcendence. Radiant splash-ink landscapes dissolve boundaries between tradition and innovation, while monumental finger paintings collapse the distance between artist and medium. At the exhibition’s center, the monochrome Spiritual Mountains are set within a mirrored chamber, immersing viewers in a space of contemplation. In later years, Tongson reintroduced color into these mountains, conjuring imaginary worlds where dreams and his inner voice could be revealed. The path culminates in finger-painted plants, placed in dialogue with the living garden beyond the gallery walls. These works embody resilience, purity, and renewal, …

The Un/Safe Reading of Spectrosynthesis – Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now

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By Anthony Leung Po Shan Spectrosynthesis – Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei in September proclaimed itself to be Asia’s first “LGBTQ art” exhibition at a state-owned museum. In addition to being the icing on the cake after Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage, it also marks the homonormative order finally gaining acceptance in its political, economic, social and cultural aspects. Although successful in its scope and accessibility, the exhibition failed to explore a more creative/destructive gender imagination, and inevitably felt too safe to an audience familiar with gender issues. The exhibition took three years to prepare, with curator Sean C S Hu classifying all artists that belong to the politically marginalised or the non-heterosexual mainstream as “tongzhi”, a collective term that usually encompasses lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. The inclusive definition of the term was an attempt to efface the question of who does and doesn’t qualify, plus some works of unspecified gender orientation also helped to dilute the stereotypical image of “tongzhi art”. Although the 44 works from 24 …