Client: Egret Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei City, Taiwan
Exhibition Design
Tape Art by TAPE THAT
Tape art is art made out of adhesive tape. It is a new art form that has grown rapidly over the last ten years. The Berlin-based Tape That Collective designed an exhibition space of 380 sqm inside the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei. Within the exhibition, they created eight tape art installations and exhibited over 40 tape paintings created by collectives. Working on-site, all artists included the spatiality of the exhibition space in their themes ranging from camouflage and illusion to a mirror house and a night-view corridor. Moreover, special sounds and light installations turn the event into an immersive art experience. Easy to adhere, tear and change – with sophisticated patterns and skills, the lines and colours of approximately 7,000 cuts of tapes transformed the otherwise plain and little exciting space into a fancy place of great aesthetic value and emotional depth.
Statement by the Jury
The remarkable thing about this exhibition is that it is made of simple materials and yet achieves such a rich visual effect. It is with the help of ordinary, ubiquitous adhesive tapes, which skilfully adorn the space with strong graphic patterns and different colours, that it has become possible to present a variety of spatial perceptions and to evoke a multifaceted sense of liveliness.
Credits
-
Client:FunDesign.tv, Taipei City, Taiwan
-
Design:Tape That Collective, Berlin, Germany
-
Project Team:Carrie Chang (Curator) SK Chen (Curator) Sandrine Cheng (Curator) Thomas Meissner (Artist) Nicolas Lawin (Artist) Cedric Goussanou (Artist) Stephan Meissner (Artist) Stefan Busch (Artist) Adrian Dittert (Artist) Atau Hamos (Artist)