The opening of "Tak Chun Art Garden"- Cai Guojie's solo exhibition was such a great success held in Tak Chun Macau Art Garden on September 20 (Friday). On that day, lots of honorable guests have come to support the exhibition, including the Deputy Director of Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR, Mr. Xin Jian Bo, Functional Head of Exhibitions and Museums at Macao Museum of Art, Mr. Samuel Leong, Director of School of Arts, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Hsu Hsiu-Chu, President of the Macao Wisdom and Humanities Encourage Political Association, Mr. Ung Choi Kun, President of the Macau Artists Association, Mr. Lai Ieng,  President of the Macau Artist Society, Mr. Lok Hei, Representative of Trust Const & Invest Co. Ltd - Strategic Development Manager, Mr. Wong Cheong U, Assistant Vice President of Tak Chun Group - Brand and Marketing, Ms. Eugenia IP, Director of Macao Delegation of Orient Foundation, Ms. Ana Paula CLETO, Director of Creative Macau, Ms. Lúcia Lemos,...etc. The exhibition hall was so crowded that it filled with lots of guests and artist, it was such a great time to have fun and enjoy the moment.

Opening ceremony
 

Group photo of guests and artists

 
Cai believes that art is to create a description of differences, and artists cannot give up the power of art in the name of art. The " Half-Field Plan " is a deed to mark the inter-space space and explores the concept of "power field" in art. With the series of contents of the " Half-Field Plan ", the choice is power-giving; mutual understanding is the game of power. Cai Guojie's focus is on the transfer of rights from "concepts" to "entities", and the ownership of the gaps between boundaries. At this point, the "bound power" and "the power of desire" of the artificial boundary, these powers can help to oppose the "infinity" of the opposite - that is, the freedom we desire.

The “Half-Field Project” is an imaginative art project by artist Cai Guojie. Starting from the "Linear Store" implemented in Taipei in 2004, Cai Guojie borrowed the land development and sales model to sell the boundary line between the land sections in the world. It is a borderline that is a mixture between various "spaces of power" and "spaces of consumption". In the game of selling the borderline, the “Half-Field Project” suggests a solemn concept: the space of power and the jurisdictional boundary.

His works had exhibited in New York, Liverpool and Hampstead, France, Paris, Germany, Berlin, Italy, Florence, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Portugal, Lisbon, Istanbul, Tokyo ,Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and places.

In this exhibition, Cai has a collection of the “Half-Field” Projects over these 10 more years. The booklet can be purchased at AFA .

The memorial booklet of the〈Half Field Project〉

Different from his previous "Half-Field Project", the artist's current solo exhibition "Tak Chun Art Garden" in the Macau Art For All Society records and exhibits the continuous re-circulation process after the sale of "a land line" in front of the Tak Chun Macau Art Garden. "Tak Chun Art Garden" is a brand new attempt in the entire "Half-Field Project". The artist gives up the production control of the work and makes the work flow and spread in nature. As long as humans recognize the exchange of such forms, this project will continue to circulate over time, self-generating, never ending, and is "nomadic" in its nature: the flow of decentralization (de-centering) process and the breeding of aesthetic characteristics. This flowing line in "Tak Chun Art Garden" has become the artist's determination to resist the structure of the old rule of space, "Deterritorialising" in nomadism, flowing and spreading. This is a new and profound aesthetic attempt.

 "A land line" in front of the Tak Chun Macau Art Garden and the “Right to Buy of this Land Line” by Cai Guojie - 《Tak Chun Art Garden》29.7x21 cm, paper rights, 2019.

Guest was watching the artist 's work

"Tak Chun Art Garden"- Cai Guojie's solo exhibition is partly sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Macao SAR Government. Media partners include Hoje Macau and Ponto Final. The exhibition will be opened to public from September 21 to October 25, 2019.

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