The 6th Asian Art Biennial will be grandly on view at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts on September 30th, 2017. For the first time in more than a decade, the biennial this year is curated by a joint team of an in-house curator and three foreign curators, a mechanism fairly distinct from its previous curatorial practice. Treating “Negotiating the Future” as the theme, the curatorial team plans to invite around 30 artists/collectives to accomplish this great achievement with concerted efforts.

Zao Wou-Ki is a Chinese painter whose artworks are held responsible for making the Western and Eastern visual styles meet each other. His aesthetics are best explained as a combination of the abstract method borrowed from the West and the Chinese concept of Tao, best explained as the meditative spirit characteristic to Eastern traditions. During his long career, Zao Wou-Ki became a crucial part of the global art scene and was also a member of the Académie des beaux-arts. This artist is often regarded as one of the most successful Chinese painters of the 20th century.