Taipei Contemporary Art Fair: This new type of artwork scene overturns the vision of Taiwanese audiences
A rare sight: a major work by Japan's most prominent artist, Yayoi Kusama - 06 Yayoi Kusama flowers that bloom at midnight list g-2010 and d-2016
Southeast Asian artists Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan (b. 1965, 1962) Left Wing Project-(belok kiri jalan terus) 302x85cm 2017-18 hand-forged sickles 302x85cm
British renowned artist Sarah Lucas b. 1962 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2014 g-left chair d-right chair 84x40.5x52cm
Vivian Suter 3 individual works,each untitled,undated mixed media on canva dimension variable
At the Contemporary Art Fair, a beautiful piece by Georg Baselitz, The Messenger 1984 250x200x4cm oil on canvas, next to a major work by British sculptor Tony Cragg
Left-Shirazeh Houshiary b. 1955 Feel 2018 120x120cm pencil and pigment on black acrylic on canvas and aluminium Right-Anish Kapoor b. 1954 Untitled 2014 alabaster 83x82x63cm
Taiwanese emerging artist Chou Shin Hsiung b. 1989 100 Faces of Youth 2019 1152x600x413cm oil on plexiglass

Text and images by Chen Chi-Hsiang. The opening of the first Taipei Contemporary Art Fair has ushered Taiwan’s art market into a global Warring States period, stimulating the local art industry and challenging in-house creation. Galleries unable to keep pace with contemporary industrial value will fade away and disappear automatically (perhaps becoming art shops within hotel expos). Creations that fail to advance with the times will find no footing, suffocating in isolation. Even Taiwan’s top art universities are not exempt; teaching methods and curricula that merely coax students without fostering creativity or keeping up with the times will face student skepticism and even challenge.

Contemporary Western art is certainly not our version or guide, but stones from other hills can indeed overturn our thinking and industry. Let Taiwan’s art, art education, and art industry exert more effort, create their own value, and ask themselves: Have we been globalized?