Live in ART | A Soulful Dialogue Between Art and Music | Christmas Special

Date｜2023.12.22 (Fri) 19:00 – 21:00
Artist｜Taiwanese print-based artist YANG Chung-Ming
Musician｜Taiwanese accordionist WANG Yen-meng

Organizer｜Gallery de sol
Art Director｜Sunny Chang Ph.D
Executive Producer｜Yu-Wen Liu

Location｜Gallery de sol
Address｜3rd Floor, The Arcade, No.166 Dunhua North Road, Songshan District, Taipei City
Contact｜02 8770 5055｜service@gallerydesol.com.tw

This is a special encounter. When the album “Cosmic Campfire” was released last year, it met the works of YANG Chung-Ming, and the final album cover was crowned by Yang’s work “Eternal Echo.“

This year, as we use music to feel the vastness of the cosmos and use a talk to reveal the secrets of the soul, Yang’s new solo exhibition “Flora of Formosa” is on display. Two romantic forces are poised to converge on the eve of Christmas, illuminating the secrets of your soul.

WANG Yen-meng is both a musician and an astrologer. To be more precise, he is a child who collects shells from the ocean of the universe. We all possess a soul; even if you’ve forgotten, one day you will remember. Remarkably, our souls are intimately connected with the workings of the universe. Over millennia, many philosophers and scholars have gradually unearthed fragmentary pieces of this truth. You deserve to know these secrets, and Wang Yen-meng will quietly reveal them to you amidst the spiritual atmosphere surrounding YANG’s works.

At Gallery de sol, we will create a small resonant cosmos for one evening. Beyond performing live versions of the music from “Cosmic Campfire” — distinct from the recorded tracks — WANG Yen-meng will also perform a new single that has not yet been published. During the concert, he will present a talk titled: “On the Connection Between the Soul and the Universe.”

There is no fantasy here, no conjecture.
We piece together these fragments through real evidence.

We often question the meaning of life — an eternal riddle — but opening a new window from this perspective will make the world appear differently. There is also an Easter egg: WANG Yen-meng will reveal a surprising Maya calendar secret that will bring you a wondrous insight.


Musician

WANG Yen-meng —— a renowned Taiwanese accordionist.
His compositions are not limited by established styles; his melodies are delicate and emotionally rich. In recent years he has explored spiritual realms and the mysteries of the cosmos, integrating electronic and ambient elements into his work to present multi-layered musical textures.
He has collaborated with many singers, including Cheer Chen and Lei Guangxia, among others. He has composed and produced music for numerous TV shows and films, and his solo album “Floating Accordion” was nominated for Best Instrumental Pop Album at the 15th Golden Melody Awards and for Best Recording Package at the 47th Grammy Awards.
At the end of 2022 he released the new album “Cosmic Campfire.”


Feat. print-based artist YANG Chung-Ming

YANG Chung-Ming (b. 1974, Taiwan) is a contemporary artist whose print work is the only printmaking collection held by the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
He primarily works in printmaking. The aesthetics hidden within music, images, reading, and objects — the details left by time — combined with his rich life experience and keen sensitivity, have shaped a practice distinct from traditional printmakers who focus solely on technique: profound thought and subtle feeling precede technique. He navigates nature and the humanities, East and West, classical and contemporary. Through repeated experiments that open new paths and expand the boundaries of printmaking, he has created a unique artistic landscape.
From painting and installation to printmaking, from exquisitely detailed mezzotint to irreplicable single-plate impressions, his decades of honed technique make the medium a tool devoted to concept, enabling diverse creations unbound by a single style. Beyond form, what is most precious is that Yang’s art does not loudly assert itself; rather, it slowly flows into the viewer’s depths as a resonance.

About the album “Cosmic Campfire“

There are moments when, camping in the woods around a blazing fire, we gather together. Beyond warmth and the glow on each other’s faces, in a shared gaze we feel a sense of boundlessness.
This is the cosmic message WANG Yen-meng wishes to convey through music, having in recent years deeply integrated music with spatial and esoteric perspectives. Collaborating with electronic musician and beat-maker KbN, he expanded his compositional palette beyond the accordion, using electronic music as poetry to reach frequencies difficult for acoustic instruments, resulting in ten melodically profound and beautiful pieces.
Within the poetic musical structures and clean, simple instrumentation, electronic arrangements subtly plant faint clues — fresh yet deep, delivering rich messages. This new electronic-poet ensemble brings music that is both healing and contemporary, like camping in the universe, taking listeners on a journey toward oneness through the notes.

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