Liquid_Mondrian Series

Conceptual Paintings
2001-2004, Oil on Canvas

This project, Liquid_Mondrian, is an attempt to explore the transformation and migration of images and objects from the physical world to the cyberspace. The presentation of this project is a site-specific installation in which the actual “code paintings” will be hung on the gallery walls, and a computer portal is set up for the visitors to examine how the codes generate images in the cyberspace.

Liquid_Mondrian series has been exhibited world-wide including showings at Queens Museum (New York), Arts Center at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), and Melvin Gallery (Florida).

Liquid_Mondrian installation, Queens Museum

I chose Piet Mondrian’s painting as my subject based on several factors: he is widely recognized, his style of painting is unique, his painting is very suitable to encoding by HTML, and the Modernist movement of which he was part believed in the singularity of original artwork.

Translating Mondrian’s work into HTML code, and then materializing these codes using the same material, method, and presentation as the original leads to a new series of painting in some sense equivalent to the original yet completely distinct in nature. These paintings are neither analog nor digital. They have a physical presence that does not belong to the cyber world, yet the intended visual content of these paintings is no longer apparent to the human eye. My process has produced works that ultimately mirror the differences between themselves.

Liquid_Mondrian / Composition A: Composition With Red and Blue / 55 cm x 55 cm

Liquid_Mondrian / Lozenge Composition with Two Lines and Blue / 56.3 cm x 56.3 cm

Liquid_Mondrian / Composition En Blanc Noir Et Rouge / 104 cm x 104 cm

Liquid_Mondrian / Composition No. III Blanc Janue / 100 cm x 51 cm

Liquid_Mondrian / Lozenge Composition with Three Lines and Blue, Gray, and Yellow / 80 cm x 80 cm

Liquid_Mondrian / Boogie Woogie New York / 95 cm x 91 cm