Press Release
Red House Exhibition by Chih Liang Liu and Sing Lee Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Chih Liang Liu and Sing Lee acknowledged for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category for Red House Exhibition by Chih Liang Liu and Sing Lee, designed for Golden Eagle International Lighting & Engineering Co., Ltd., Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government.. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Red House Exhibition
Red House is an art installation created for a lantern festival in Taipei. The work forms a tunnel corridor of eight sides, built from stainless steel pipe and laser cut metal sheets. Each side carries carved images of the Ximending area placed in chronological order, starting with the Red House building of 1908. Computer controlled LED lights illuminate the panels and brighten the street. Fluorocarbon baking paint protects the surfaces for long term display. Visitors walk through the corridor and read the history of the city through pictures rather than text.
About Chih Liang Liu and Sing Lee
Liu Chih-Liang (Sammy), Senior international lighting designer, a racer. As the host of various landmark art and culture types of architectural lighting projects in Taiwan, completed a number of large-scale venues and art space lighting project in Taiwan and abroad. Fully devoted to lighting projects of large-scale events and installation artworks, Sammy has aimed to create various kinds of lighting arts and present the most diversified interpretations for lighting aesthetics.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chih Liang Liu and Sing Lee is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2023 - 2024 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Entries typically include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. Awarded art designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/160505
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/160505
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!160505
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/234198
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.facebook.com/GoldenEagleLightingEngineering
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Red House Exhibition
- Function
- Exhibition
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Black, Sienna, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Golden Eagle International Lighting & Engineering Co., Ltd., Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chih Liang Liu and Sing Lee
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #160505
Credits
- Team
- LIU CHIH LIANG, HO TIEN, SING LEE and CHIEN SHIH CHIEH, Golden Eagle International Lighting & Engineering Co., Ltd., Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government, ERA TV and TSELIN Metal Co., Ltd.
- Image Credits
- Image #1 to; Photographer Rex Chu / Creator Chih Liang Liu (Design Director) and Sing Lee (Artist), Red House's Memories, 2024. Main image is Image #1, Optional Image #1 is Image #2, Optional Image #2 is Image #3, Optional Image #3 is Image #4, Optional Image #4 is; Video Credits: MP4. For Images in JPG.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Located in bustling tourist destinations, the city memory corridor features ancient architecture as the main theme to tell visitors about the city's history and culture through huge metal corridors and metal carved picture books. Following the development and changes of the times, many scenery in the city has disappeared. However, as we pass through this huge metal corridor, those pictures in the book that convey the memories of each era will awaken precious images left in the memories of former residents or visitors.
- Inspiration
- The Lantern Festival is a highly anticipated and celebrated event in Taiwan. With the development of the times, this festival has slowly become one of the most important celebrations in the cities. In a modern city, providing a lively celebration that preserves the historical and cultural essence of the city has become a unique work of art. We use visual graphic installations to achieve this goal, At the same time, the installation can also decorate the streets with colors and increase the brightness of the lighting, and become a business card of the city.
- Research
- The Red House, a historical building built during the Japanese rule era, is used as the main viewpoint for reading the development of Ximending, so the first metal installation of the Red House, which was built in 1908, is used as the starting point of the tunnel corridor. In total, there are eight sides of the tunnel gallery, each of which is chronologically placed with different images of the development of the Ximending area, telling the story of its own development.
- Challenge
- This project is an attempt to understand and interpret the exact history and culture of the centuries through various local organizations and scholars. Due to the size of the work produced, the project had to give up the textual interpretation of these events and scenes and use images that the general public or domestic and foreign travelers can understand. At the same time, Its location was a street with a constant flow of tourists, and the biggest challenge was how to make the artwork and the street become one, and to exhibit the artwork in a harmonious way.
- Realization and Technology
- The metal sheet is laser cut through the conversion of archives, and the overall corridor structure is designed using the structural mechanics method of architecture. By calculating the energy consumption and diffusion angle of LED lights. The interior and exterior are coated with highly protective paint using fluorocarbon baking paint, ultimately making it an art piece that can be displayed and easily maintained for a long time.
- Operation and Interaction
- The art installation visualizes historical and cultural images, constructing an independent three-dimensional space. Through the interaction with people, it enables people to read the relevant history of the city and pass it on to the next generation through storytelling, forming an intangible inheritance of historical and cultural heritage.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started on October 17, 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan and was completed on February 10, 2024. It was exhibited at the 2024 Taipei Lantern Festival on February 17, 2024.
- Specifications
- 5400 mm x 16000 mm x 4500 mm / Materials is Stainless Steel Pipe, High Performance Paints, Computer Controlled LED Lights, Illumination Transducer.
- Keywords
- 2024 Taipei Lantern Festival, Taipei Lantern Festival, Red House's Memories, Lighting Art, Performance Art, Installation Art, Exhibition, Event
