Flowing Water – 2023 Taoyuan Watercolor Biennial

“The Flowing Feast” originally refers to a flowing occasion of the feast for guests to come and go freely: sharing, carefree, and satisfactory. These terms elucidate the material properties of watercolor: flowing, blending, and airy. If we deconstruct the phrase “The Watercolor Feast,” they are metaphors for changing characteristics, material medium, and invitation to hospitality. Such can be regarded as the appeals in the 2023 Flowing Water – Taoyuan International Watercolor Biennial: Experimental Innovation, Subject Contemplation, Interlocutory Presentation, and Local Characteristics, in an attempt to usher in possibilities for the watercolor of Taiwan in the new century.
The watercolor art in Taiwan has a history of over a century. The active property of water plus color is now fully localized as a de facto MIT product as well as an integral part of the art history of Taiwan. Numerous talents have emerged for watercolor art in Taiwan, presenting varied figurative and freehand creativities. It is also a platform for inheritance and education that deserves great appreciation and attention.