Group photo with Nansan San members and guests after the sharing session
Joan Miro (1893-1983) Blue (One of Three Series), 1961, Oil painting, Centre Pompidou, Paris collection
J-P Raynaud (1938) Homage to Matisse, 2002, Centre Pompidou, Paris collection
Chinese artist Chen Zhen (1955-2000) Round Table Conference, 1995, Centre Pompidou, Paris collection
Scottish painter Peter Doig (born 1959) 100 Years ago, 2001, Oil painting, Centre Pompidou, Paris collection
Contemporary digital artist Miguel Chevalier virtuel-peinture, October 2015, Digital space interactive installation

Text and photos by Chen Chi-Hsiang

"Contemporary Art from All Angles"

Sharing is the greatest joy; whether it accumulates merit is unknown, but perhaps frequent sowing leads to sprouting. As the French literary giant Maupassant said, "If no one shares with you, what meaning does victory have?" I am deeply grateful to Snowflake and Shumei, my good friends and executives at Nan Sansan, for their encouragement. This lecture was invited a year ago. It has been a long journey, filled with hardships, yet we finally had the fortune to reach this day. Because of all of you, this art feast was made possible.

Paris is a charming place, where artistic creation ferments. Paris is the world for those pursuing dreams, and naturally, Paris is the lover I love most in my life, a place overflowing with milk and honey. But the moon missing my hometown also calls out; my hometown—my original land—is the nerve of my life, the land of my mother, and the source of great spirit. Without it, our world would be dark. As the twentieth-century literary giant D.H. Lawrence wrote, "Every continent has its own great local spirit, and every nation has its local characteristics. That is home, that is the homeland. On this earth, different places have different vitality, different vibrations, different chemical smells, different stars, different characteristics. You may call it whatever you like, but the local spirit is a great reality."

The contemporary meaning lies in the present and the exploration of the unknown, surprising your imagination in unexpected places and stunning you in a state of pause. "Post-postmodernism - under globalization - nothing is impossible." Contemporary art displays infinite imagination under all these possibilities. "Contemporary art is not that difficult, but the difficulty is that it is not that easy."

Indeed, talking about contemporary Paris for only two hours seems too short, like kissing soy sauce—at least a feast needs twenty hours to be satisfying. Please let Snowflake plan for the long term next time. Here, "Thank heaven, thank earth, thank this land of Taiwan, thank everyone—for co-creating our Taiwanese value, just keep striving forward."