ARTISTS

Ichi Tashiro

Lin YiHsuan

Each Modern and Gallery COMMON are pleased to present a joint booth at Asia Now Paris featuring Japanese artist Ichi Tashiro and São Paulo-based Taiwanese artist Lin YiHsuan. Lin YiHsuan’s fourteen-year sojourn in the distinctive cultural landscape of Latin America has provided him with a lens distinct from the conventions of Western art. Brazil, the most prosperous hub for abstract expression in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, has offered him fresh insights through its focus on the non-objective abstract theoretical concept of 'Forma.' In Lin’s paintings, the vibrancy and contrast of colors and forms, informed by his immersion in Latin American life, have become dominant themes over the past five years. Lin’s works find their complement in Tashiro’s sculptural abstractions, which, in addition to color and shape, incorporate the third dimension of space as an additional element. Carving into wood panels to create deep canyons and winding valleys, Tashiro then overlays colored paper into the plains and crevices, creating powerful works that seem as if they could be maps of the soul. Tashiro’s bold abstractions are a maturation of methods that recall the Automatists and Dadaists, whose ideas of the automatic and subconscious and use of collage and surrealism formed the foundation of what is now an expressionist approach.