An Exhibition for All: Home & House

Themed Assistive Device: Landscape of Tamsui
The assistive device is the same size as the original artwork. It is the first of its kind in Taiwan where a painting is transformed from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and then colored after the original work. First, designers prepared design drawings for 3D printing. Then, the Metal Industries Research & Development Centre in Taiwan 3D-printed the sand mold that is used to make the white finished product. Finally, an artist specializing in restoring paintings colored it with oil paint based on the original artwork.

Having been converted from two-dimensional graphics to shallow relief, it is now possible to tactilely "feel" the composition and layout of the original work and explore the forms of the houses inside the landscape painting and the spatial sense of varying distances. The coloring, on the other hand, allows us to appreciate the hues and textures of the oil paint.

Lee Shi Chi created “Untitled” in 1964, using buildings as the subject matter, he compares the composition of Eastern and Western architecture in a more linear and complex way.

He accentuates the lines of traditional Chinese buildings through complicated compositions and seeking changes through harmony.

Themed Assistive Device: Untitled
The size of this assistive device is the same as the original print and is divided into three layers: base, middle and top. The base is like the first layer of graphics imprinted by the painter onto paper; there are three large patches of mainly red, with more intense hues where the 3D sandblasting is thicker.

The black acrylic in the middle is the second layer imprinted by the painter onto the artwork. This layer is the primary composition of the artwork: numerous dark and hefty lines express the theme of Chinese architecture in an abstract manner. Various textures are engraved into the topmost acrylic surface to offer clues to the Chinese architectural forms on the print, helping the visually impaired to identify symbolic elements concealed within the painting.

Themed Assistive Device: Upraising the Civilization
Assistive device 1: One section is selected from the graphics of Upraising the Civilization and transcribed onto this relief/intaglio board. Every relief patch is on the same scale as the original paining, giving a tactile feel of the density of the numerous geometric shapes in the original artwork.

Assistive device 2: Part of the graphics in the original painting the size of the palm is magnified and designed into two parts: base and blocks. A dozen of triangular, quadrilateral and arched blocks represent the geometric shapes that are the darkest in tone, painted last and located at the topmost layer, representing the process of painting in which the geometric shapes are drawn one over top of another.