23 January – 15 November 2009

200 Newton Road, Newton 200 Ground Floor, Singapore 307983 by appointment only

iPRECIATION is pleased to announce an exhibition preview of the celebrated Taichi Series by the Award winning artist JU MING (b. 1938).

The Taichi Series is the second series of works Ju Ming has created, in between his popular Nativist and the recent Living World Series. As his astounding sculptural technique demonstrates, the Taichi Series effectively explicates the contemplative flow of the self.

The Taichi Series is an important milestone signifying the maturity of Ju Ming’s sculptural language and aesthetic style, where he found himself being able to wield his exquisite craftsmanship with complete ease and freedom, reaching the stage of being unconscious of the ‘self’ in the process. These works are noteworthy as the sculpting process for such massive artworks requires considerable effort for his age, thus attesting to the rarity of this series, that will no doubt, be a heartfelt artistic indulgence for all sculptural art enthusiasts.

Ju Ming was born in 1938, in Taiwan. Before he became an established artist, he served his apprenticeship under sculptor Lee Chichuan (1953) and Yuyu Yang (1968). Ju Ming has exhibited extensively at major international galleries, museums and open spaces around the world; including Tokyo Central Art Museum (1976), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (1987), London’s South Bank Centre & Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Musee d’Art Contemporain a Dunkerque in Paris (1991), Buckinghamshire’s Milton Keynes Sculpture Park (1992), Place Vendome in Paris (1997), Brandenburger Tor in Berlin (2003), Singapore Art Museum (2004) and National Art Museum of China (2006).

For further information or artwork enquiry please contact enquiry@ipreciation.com or 65 6339 0678