[The Distributed Information] is a piece of Tsong's Shinning Meet Series.
Shinning Meet is an art series of special significance as a watershed and a milestone to Tsong Pu’s career as an artist.
Graphic works are the staple of his oeuvre prior to Shinning Meet, while the latter guides the viewer’s sight from 2D planes into a 3D space. Not only that the composition intersected by slanting lines demonstrates spiritual dynamism, but also that the shapes it contains create a perspective drawing-like extension — virtual spaces derived from the lines comprised of real checks. Such transfiguration can be counted as the artist’s philosophical reflection mediated through painting.
Tsong Pu’s career as an artist has spanned nearly 40 years since he returned from Spain in 1981, bringing him an iconic status in the Taiwanese contemporary art scene. More specific, he is not only a minimalist artist in the spotlight, but also a bellwether for material and ideational innovation in the pluralistic genealogy of Taiwanese contemporary art. His achievements and reputation rest as much upon his long-term forward-looking horizons for creation, as upon his brilliant, sui generis philosophy of art evolved from his prolific career over the past four decades.
