- Taipei -
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL - THE MINIATURE ART MUSEUM SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL - THE MINIATURE ART MUSEUM
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Date: January 10 - April 6, 2025
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Brick Lane W1 Building, Tapei
Chen Forng Shean creates sculptures and paintings on the tiniest and most fragile materials : string of dental floss, wings of a fly, a sesame seed, or a grain of sand. Most of his creations are only visible with a magnyfying glass or a microscope. He currently holds four titles, one of which is the Guinness World Records for his five character quatrain micro-engraving on a sesame seed.
A unique artist, the works created by the American Julia Cissell are made to measure. And what a measure it is! Since her early childhood, Julia Cissell has cultivated a boundless interest in very small things and in minute details. She started by making tiny accessories for her Barbie dolls.
She then went on to alternate between painting, drawing, sculpture and sewing, before turning to devote all her patience and talent to micro art.
Using polymer clay, iridescent film and nylon fiber, she creates miniature sculptures that are completely true to life. In her works, she magnifies each object, each detail - and gives them a touch of magic, too. From her tiny butterflies to her surreal sceneries, her works are a totally unique performance.
The Iriartes have worked with wood for generations - it is the family's fundamental, vital, basic raw material. Woodworking and carpentry thus come naturally to David Iriarte. But it was his passion for antique furniture and restoration that gradually led him to focus on the reproduction in miniature of 18th-century French furniture. A distinguished member of the International Guild of Miniature Artisans (IGMA), Iriarte patiently and meticulously copies the smallest details into his hyper-realistic 1:12 scale pieces. Using very fine wood and the greatest attention to detail, he creates unusual, delicate works of art.
UNITED KINGDOM - Slinkachu stages his miniature characters in urban settings around the world, photographs them and then "dumps" them there (Street Art in Miniature). His installations are a humorous reflection on the loneliness and melancholy of life in big cities; the isolation of individuals in their urban environments.
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