EXHIBITED :
Happy Animal Party-Hung Yi, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, July 27-December 1, 2013

This sculpture is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Impressions Art Gallery, Taipei.

Hung Yi is an original artist featuring strong personal style and distinguishing characters in the development history of Taiwanese Contemporary Art. His works are bright, vibrant, lively, peculiar, and whimsical. Hung Yi once said “The diversifying creative forms are overwhelming in the flourishing contemporary art world. In figuring what Taiwanese characters are, I found people often neglected the very close things. I considered art a part of life. No matter what one is creating, the creation must be combined with one’s surroundings in order to make it vital and meaningful.”

Hung Yi has been using lacquered steel, a brand-new material, as his new style in response to modern mechanical civilization. In order to produce the dynamic form for each sculpture, every piece of work was forged and shaped individually. He utilizes the bold, abundant colors, and elements of Taiwanese cultural, which bears multiple humanities, collectively to form the distinct “Hung Yi Style.” Hung Yi’s art world is brimmed with imagination. Through the sculptures with brilliant colors, he has richened the world with fascinations and amazements.

Recently, Hung Yi has been widely invited to exhibit in Taiwan and abroad. In 2013, he was invited for a solo exhibition at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan, the museum with the great international reputation. In 2014, his solo exhibition was held in Hong Kong Maritime Square, Taichung City Hall Plaza, and San Francisco Lake Merced Golf Club. In 2015, he was invited by Ed Lee, the Mayor of San Francisco, and the San Francisco City Hall to exhibit a large-scale landscape art exhibition in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. Early this year (2016), Hung Yi was invited to exhibit the grand solo exhibition in the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung. With bountiful local elements and totem paintings in unconstrained imaginative style, Hung conveys a sense of delight and merriment through his sculptures.

“Money Frog” is originally a Chinese folk legend. It was said that the appearance of three-leg money frog could bring wealth to people. Hung leads the audience into a splendid, glamorous world by recreating colors and symbols that were often seen in folk culture and daily life. From the transformation of form to the elaboration of symbol, Hung Yi blends in his social observations and life experiences into “Money Frog” to invoke a better and wealthier life for all.