"Take Me Away - I" Special Exhibition: On display at Mac/Val Contemporary Art Museum from May 7 to September 19. "Take Me Away - I" is a passionate and romantic special exhibition that explores the life energy of passion and disillusionment in male-female "love." All works feature strong metaphors of love and extraordinary sensibility. It presents nearly half a century of exploration into the warmest realm of human "romantic love." Love is the most beautiful, touching, poetic, passionate, unrestrained, intoxicating, and eye-catching force in the world. In the dramatic joys and sorrows of parting and reunion, it has been the source of literary and love poetry creation across time and cultures, and remains the driving force behind today's cliffhanging television dramas. This exhibition gathers 40 artists of all ages, including Andy Warhol, Marina Abramovic, Sophie Calle, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Jana Sterbak, and Ange Leccia. Over 80 mixed-media works radiate a fragrance of romance amidst deep affection. Sweet caresses, whispered words, heartfelt confessions, holding hands, a tender embrace, a passionate kiss, a warm declaration of "I love you," or an intense argument and sorrowful farewell—all these emotional tremors lead to mutual promises and the disillusionment of love. "Take Me Away - I" is both delightful and fraught with joy and sorrow; there, the fickle nature of humanity and unease are often hidden, along with the risk of losing possibilities. It raises fundamental questions about human desire for love: the inevitability of emotional stirring, longing, and seeking. It intends to meet the lover of one's dreams or encounter the admired prince charming, searching amidst such willingness, intoxication, passion, and imagination. All works carry thought, passion, illusion, dreams, and desire, as well as abandonment or inner struggle, equally expressing loneliness, pain, and hope. They are highly sensitive, lyrical, immersing people in this world of romantic sentiment and passion.

Under current artistic trends, "Take Me Away - I" features diverse media: numerous videos, photographs, objects, object-sculptures, and spatial installations. Full of passion and romance, the works are highly lyrical, with rich literary and narrative connotations, poetic and picturesque like love novels or sentimental prose. Divided into two major types: passionate and disillusioned. Between love and hate, jealousy, sex, death, romance and violence, intoxication and longing, passion and unease, a flow of life energy runs through, presenting the deep consciousness of emotional love and the touch of existence.

"Take Me Away - I" Passionate Love: Under this passionate love, many shots of romantic kisses and warm embraces between couples boil with life and the passion of love, warmly intoxicating people involuntarily. Andy Warhol "Kiss" (1963): Continuously presents eight pairs of male-female, female-female, and male-male black-and-white images of passionate, frenzied kissing scenes. Inspired by American Hollywood films, where regulations from the 1930s to 1968 forbade kissing scenes between men and women lasting more than three seconds. The artist not only broke social norms but also became a pioneer in video art. Melanie Manchot "Kissing" (2009): Presents a young couple in love sitting on a London bus, kissing intimately for 16 continuous minutes like a Hollywood film scene, conveying boiling love. Douglas Gordon "Self-Portrait" (1994): Under negative video effects, shows the artist narcissistically closing his eyes and kissing his reflection in the mirror, dizzy and immersed in the embrace and imagination of love. Diane Borsato "Fuck Your Head" (2009): Two vocalists sit before a piano, singing loudly while romantically inhaling each other's breath in a kiss, full of rhythm until the song ends. Christodoulos Panayiotou "Marathon Dance" (2005): A 24-hour relay dance on a park stage, pair after pair dancing passionately to the melody of the romantic love song "You Tell Me You Love Me." The artist invokes local love songs, affecting everyone's sensibility and situation. Or Francois-Xavier Courreger "Another Paradise" (2005): Filmed his two inseparable pet parrots, one red and one blue, living together intimately day and night, playing happily back and forth forever, like a devoted couple, conveying deep affection and transmitting messages of love between fiction and documentation. Ange Leccia "Arrangement - Kiss (1985-2004)": Under post-Duchampian readymades, anthropomorphized two pink movie projectors facing each other and shining upon one another, full of imaginative space, poetic and picturesque like a pair of lovers embracing and kissing passionately.

"Take Me Away - I" Disillusioned Love: Love intoxicates; in the sensitive emotional world, variables and unease abound. Emotion and love are inseparable; the deeper the love, the longer the emotion. Love and hate are also on the edge; unrequited love becomes hate, and failed love seems to leave regrets for a thousand years. Love and sex: the highest peak of love is sex; sex becomes the flower of love and the fragrance of emotion, witnessing the existence of life. Love and death are no exception: love at first sight, loving forever, loving to the bone, dying for love—love is full of romantic sentiment and the light of life's existence. Death leaves nothing behind; love is so tragic, so great, and so romantic.

Christelle Familiari "Knitted Cotton Hat for Couples" (1998-2002): This mutually loving (two-headed) cotton hat metaphorically suggests "with you there is me," eternal until forever, pointing to the body, the inner self, and the sexual pleasure and desire shared by two hearts. Sam Taylor-Wood "Mutual Mockery" Video (1995): Dramatically presents a couple standing on opposite sides of a double screen, accusing each other, in a fiery domestic quarrel scene. The intimate and subtle relationship between couples or spouses is unimaginable; mockery and disputes become commonplace, serving as an outlet for emotional expression, a snapshot of daily life situations. David Altmejd began creating unique hybrid sculptures in 2000. "Lover" (2004) Sculpture: Presents an unusual skull mixed with mineral and organic objects on a white pedestal, like an anatomical image, like a precious commodity window display, like an open coffin. Metaphorically representing the romantic sentiment of love unto death. Kevin Francis Gray "A Couple's Coffin" (2008) White marble statue: Depicts a young couple dying for love, eternally inseparable, romantic and tragic, like the moving story of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's novel. Jana Sterbak "Sweat Scent Portrait" (1995) Glass vessel: An organic and amorphous form resembling a water droplet, constructed within a biological imaginative world, full of poetry and sensuality. Metaphorically depicting the atmosphere of chemical changes on the body of love or sex; the artist transforms this magical alchemy of love into an object. Carsten Holler "Love Psychedelic" (1993-2006): Love is like taking psychedelics, making people dizzy and intoxicated. The artist conceptually presents this extraordinary "love" situation through a bottle of liquid. Once people taste "Love Psychedelic," they begin to feel warmth and fall in love with their beloved, acting as an ideal springboard for experimental relationships with the world.

Cerith Wyn Evans (2006) wrote poetic sentences combining love and death in romantic pink neon tubes: "If I hadn't met you in this world, then! I will meet you in the future, hope it won't be late, hope it won't be late." These lyrics come from the famous Voodoo Child love song by renowned American rock musician Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s, connecting themes of love and myth, such as Orpheus and Eurydice in Greek mythology (the singer who plays the lyre), or Romeo and Juliet in literature. Douglas Gordon "Blue" Video (1998): The artist ambiguously rubs, softens, threads, and inserts his hands repeatedly, seductive movements, sensual behavior, clearly showing the intimate and lingering sexuality between genders. Michel de Broin et Eve K Tremblay "Honeymoon Trip" (2002): A series of unusual photographs in nature, ambiguous actions and behaviors such as a man lying face down on a huge rock with arms spread, a woman sitting on a sofa hugging a long pillow, a woman taking off her underwear under a tree, etc., metaphorically depicting the mystery and pleasure of the union of two genders, carrying feelings of wandering, adventure, questioning, and abandonment. Tracey Emin "Love Poem for CF" (2007): Uses neon lights in a diary form of intimate romantic poetic writing with short phrases: "You put your hand in my mouth / Rumors continue endlessly / Every part of my body / Is screaming / Shattered into pieces / Thousands of fragments / Every step never belonged to you." Sending wishes for emotions and transmitting messages of love and the imagination of tender embraces and sexual love to the lover.