About Alixe Fu
Alixe Fu is an outstanding artist from Taiwan, who lives and work between Paris, peijing and New York. His artwork includes oil paintings, color-ink paintings and sculptures. Born in 1961, his first personal exhibition took place in Taipei in 1983. Afterward, he went on trips to the Unites States and Europe for cultural exchange. He has exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Center and the Grand Palais (Salon d’Automne, Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Salon de Mai), among other prestigious institutions, and has had dozens of personal and group shows in Europe, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan. (Please refer to the artist information column for his resume.)
Alixe Fu’s artwork is aimed at portraying the impressions that arise in various types of human experience – pursuing, encountering, being dejected, achieving, etc. This includes consciousness and sub-consciousness, behavior and desire, as well as truth and falsehood. He strives to use refreshing ways to share with viewers the spirit, secretiveness, and legends in art. In a way, this striving spirit characterizes the ultimate human caring. It transcends national boundaries and is a penetrating instrument in examining the human psyche. This, in itself, is a modern legend.
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In 2007, Alixe Fu received an invitation from the City of Auvers in France to use his sculptures as the center pieces at an art festival. This festival is an unprecedented large-scale event that aims to involve all residents in the city. It will be held from September to November, 2008.
The City of Auvers is where Van Gogh worked in his latter years and where he was buried. It was also a favorite place for French impressionists such as Pissaro and Cézanne to make drawings. With many museums and art events, this city attracts countless art pilgrims annually. The City of Auvers has invited Alixe Fu to carry out his Name Sculpture activity city-wide during French National Heritage Dayin 2008. Thus, Alixe Fu will help the city pave the way for several art endeavors, including an effort to let arts enter the community and a new front in art that enables two-way communication between artists and the viewers.
Alixe Fu comes from the East and has decided to make the East part of the tour. This echoes the spirit of Sign Me, which respects pluralism and differences, encourages dialogues and abandonment of biases, and unites people with different traditions and languages. With the help of name signing on large sculptures, the wall between viewers and the artwork begins to crumble, making national boundaries and cultural gaps no longer relevant. As such, this international tour also reveals how artists adapt and self-reflect in this age of globalization.
After making arrangements with various parties, the exhibition tour is set to stop by the Cube Museum of Art in Beijing and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, in addition to sites in France. These exhibitions form two axes – time and space - making the tour spanning two continents and bridging two years.
Please visit http://www.alixefu.com for more detailed information about Alixe Fu and his works.
