《You Are My Eyes》 Public Art Exhibition

《You Are My Eyes》Public Art Exhibition at Kaiser Art Gallery 

“Your black is not black, your white is not white!” The King of Golden Melody Xiao Huangqi sang about the blind's bewilderment towards colors. In the world of blind students, painting is a kind of sound, not a colorful color. The “You Are My Eyes” public art exhibition by renowned artists and the visually impaired is on display at Taichung's Kaisei Art Gallery from today (22) to March 8, and all proceeds from the art auction will be donated to Taichung City's private Huei-Ming Correctional Institution for the Visually Impaired.

This unique transboundary creation has moved many entrepreneurs to sell their collections at a high price, and on the first day of the exhibition, the amount of charity sales reached $305,000; the artists also authorized the release of limited edition peripheral merchandise, and the public is welcome to seize the opportunity to go there to appreciate the collection. Beethoven, who was deaf, could create symphonies, but how should blind children create? The Taichung City Think and Love Charity Association invited six artists - Wu Ji, Huang Yingquan, Chang Shu-quality, Liao Yingli, Tang Chih-hao, and Yan,Wen-Shuo to collaborate with the Huiming Correctional Institution for the Visually Impaired, where visually impaired students would “speak” their imaginations of colors and shapes, and then the artists would bring their visions of the world of the visually impaired to life in a unique artwork that would be out of the box.

He had never seen it, but when he drew the mango at the end, I wanted to cry.” Wu Ji was blindfolded and let the visually impaired student hold his hand while he talked and imagined. 

Wu Ji, blindfolded, let the visually impaired student grab his hand and drew while talking about his imagination, finally completing a long, dark object with rounded corners, which turned out to be the blind student's imagination of a hard and round mango. Liao held the blind student's hand patiently and guided her to touch the doll's ears and chubby body in an attempt to construct an impression of a gentle and cute doll in her mind, but she unexpectedly found that knowledge is a kind of framework. She pointed out, “Because the visually impaired lacks the ability to recognize the shape and color of an object, it breaks the universal value of ‘beauty’, and the pastel colors and beautiful flowers are just abstract and difficult to comprehend for the visually impaired students.Liao Yingli has been betting on the world of beauty for many years, and has been a regular winner in major international art exhibitions. She admits that she is inspired by blind students who are unable to see, and has created a series of elegant and charming silk scarves full of children's interest by breaking the framework.

“The moon may be a straight line, the wings are a series of circles,” said curator Lin Yingying, the value of art is often not superficial, the uniqueness that can not be replicated, the story behind the hidden, is the most precious value of artistic creation, although not many of the works in the joint exhibition, but each of them is quite worthy of collection, treasured at the same time to pay the public welfare and love, the significance of the extraordinary. 

Cheng Bo-jen, President of the Taichung City Think and Love Charity Association, said that the association currently has no large-scale corporate support for concerts, second-hand garden parties, and art exhibitions, and relies only on the public's love to support them, and is actively recruiting members, and more friends are welcome to join in the public welfare ranks.

Representatives of enterprises and units present today to support the event include Lily Chang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Association of the Republic of China and Chairman of Lung Pao Construction; Tinghua Jiang, Vice Chairman of Fuwang International Development; Wu-hua Chen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Taiwan Action Bodhisattva Scholarship Association and Chairman of Shengqun Metal; and Jun-Ju Ji, Secretary General of the Taichung City Real Estate Agents and Dealers Association. As well as the chairman of Taichung Real Estate Brokers Association, Ms. Shu-Huei Chen; the chairman of Taichung Private Kai Sheng Social Welfare Charitable Foundation, Mr. Muren Wang; the president of Fuzzy Central Potato Association, Ms. Chun-Min Lin; and Taichung City Councilor, Mr. Shou-Da Huang.