Taiwan hosted only 'live' SDGs art show
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – SDGs Art 2021 featured installations, sculptures, and paintings from artists in Italy and Taiwan, at the Breeze Center exhibition center in Taipei.
Inspired by the United Nation's (U.N.) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), SDGs Art 2021 closed Friday (March 26) — but there are plans to resurrect it next year.
The U.N. has proposed 17 linked global goals to achieve a more sustainable future by 2030. SDGs Art 2021 in Taipei was the only "live" event, with the rest going online, according to the organizer, Gita Art Corp.
Curated by Emerson Wang (王焜生), a Taiwanese art critic, SDGs Art 2021 showed 10 groups of artists from Taiwan and Italy for just two days. The artists included Willy Verginer, Wu Kwan-dun (吳寬墩), a doctor at National Taiwan University Hospital, Clayton An (安庾心), the founder of And Landscape Design Company, and Cnang Ling (常陵).
At the entrance, Verginer's two sets of basswood sculptures explored the idea of ocean pollution through an innocent kid and a sad-faced woman. The half-naked child is chilling in the ocean with trash floating around him.