Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum

installation in the water park by Virginia Scotchie

Whoa. We took a trip to Taipei yesterday to see the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, as well as some other galleries. This is possibly the best ceramics museum in the world. They have an enormous collection of ancient pots and architectural details, folk pots, contemporary ceramics and installation pieces, and currently the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale pieces. Where to begin...

Virginia Scotchie

Virginia Scotchie

I was in the gift shop and they had a video playing of the installation process of Virginia Scotchie's permanent piece in the water garden. That was so cool to see, but not as cool as experiencing the actual piece. This piece is so gorgeous, a perfect contrast of bright colors and playful shapes with the beautiful Taipei mountainscape in the background, as well as the light reflecting in the water. This piece really made me happy. Yay Virginia!!!!!

Back in the museum, the Biennale was overall a great show. My one complaint was that several of the pieces were from as far back as 1989-early 90s. Just my opinion, but I thought that a show like this should include all contemporary pieces. Here's a few cool pieces...

Gertraud Mohwald, 1999

Isobel Egan, 2005

Kyoko Hori, 2009

Kim Dickey, 2009

Mariko Isozaki, 2008

Catrin Howell, 2010

Kim Simonsson, 2009

This is only a fraction of the show. To see more at the museum, look at www.ceramics.tpc.gov.tw
or to see the show, http://www.ceramics.tpc.gov.tw/2010TCB/en/b.html
Good night!