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Solo Exhibition
"Please help to pass a dream 請幫忙傳一個夢 "
January 14th - February 11th, 2011 Opening reception: Friday, January 21
6:00-8:00PM
Place: Gallery 456 Chinese American Arts Council
Hour: Monday- Friday 12-6PM
456 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 Tel: 212-431-9740
www.caacarts.org
 
Love Tree Project
Now you can see the video on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Rygk-srGg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzEJwwTs8h8 (Japanese)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0q20SgGhmU
WHERE:
Queens
Crossing located at 138th Street & 39th Avenue, Flushing
The Love Tree project was conducted by Artist Lin Shi Pao, in
partnership with Councilman Peter Koo, Flushing Chinese Business
Association, F&T Group, Flushing Chamber of Commerce, Local
Public Schools and Love Tree Committee. With the help of
students and volunteers from the local community, thousands of
recycled water bottles and LED lights, Love Tree was built in
Flushing Mall over several months and will be unveiled in Queens
Crossing Plaza where it will be on view during the holiday
season.
The Love Tree was conceived by artist Lin Shih Pao, it is a
28’ high tree that was made using over
10,000 recycled water
bottles, 10,000 LED lights and a wire armature. A key component
of Lin Shih Pao’s concept for Love Tree is that the community
takes an active role in its creation. The public was asked to
bring recycled empty water bottles to Flushing Mall and Queens
Crossing for collection. Once 10,000
water bottles were collected the artist and volunteers from the
community helped him construct the tree at an open studio
located in Flushing Mall.
A tree lighting ceremony will take place on December 1 7th
in Queens Crossing Plaza where Love Tree will be unveiled and on
view throughout the holiday season. Love Tree offers the
community the gift of public art and serves as a participatory
gift that will invite and encourage community members to
participate with the sculpture’s message of how beauty can be
created through the act of recycling and community cooperation.
  
  
August 2010 Artist: Shih-Pao Lin
Dream Collection Project
「集夢計画」,
Dream Collection Project, is the latest work of New York
based artist Shih-Pao Lin’s “ The Collecting Hart” series.
Lin has been working on this “The
Collecting Hart” series for over 20 years. The name of the
series stands for the artist’s aim to bring people’s hearts
together by creating an artwork with a collaboration of artists
and people. The artist call this process, “behavioral art,”
which he tries to bring people closer to other people, people
closer to art, and art closer to people. The process of
creation as well as communication with people is important parts
of his artwork. This is the style of expression and is the art
he developed in the U.S.
Works in “The Collecting Hart” series
includes: “Christmas Love Tree,” created with 200,000 pacifiers
in 2006 and “Gate of Wisdom“, created with 300,000 donation of
pens, which was exhibited at the Aichi World Expo, Japan in
2005.
Shih-Pao says: “a life is a drama and a drama
is a life,” and “dream is a force to move human spices, and so,
the evolution starts from a dream.” The artist believes that
each individual is born with a dream and live to achieve that
dream. Imaging, seeking, and achieving one’s own dream is a
3-acts-drama called “life.”
A dream emerges from a daily life. For an
artist, the dream comes to life as a language of the art (that
is an art work). However, as an artist, Shih-Pao knows how
difficult it is to achieve one’s dream. He also knows that there
are people who fight a difficult game with determination to
achieve one’s dream.
Shih-Pao says that he had been producing his
art in a vision “art is more beautiful than a life.” However, he
never fully satisfied with one or two dimensional art. He felt
that something was missing. He realized that he wants to create
a film, a film that portrays more than his past visual art
works. A film merges human life and arts. Everyone who involve
in the filmmaking is an artist. It is not a story or a script
that inspired the artist to make a film, because the story will
evolve during the process. His inspiration is a dream and people
who have a dream.
The Dream Collection Project is to
discover people with strong wills to achieve their dreams,
gather supporters, and provide a stage to showcase their
dreams.
This world is driven by the force of people’s
dream. Thus, the Dream Collection Project is a condensed
version of the world and the project possesses infinite
possibility.
The Dream Collection Project will be
possible not only with one’s efforts, but with the corporation
of one’s family, friends, and coworkers. The story of the human
spices has begun its journey. It will need tons of support from
everyone. The artist ask those who have achieved their dram to
help their successors. He asks the predecessors to give chance
that they were given.
The artist has been portraying combination of
logics and emotions as behavioral art. In order to achieve this
Dream Collection Project, dream (emotions) and logics goes hand
in hand.
The Dream Collection
Project Fundraising Plan
The artist believes that
collecting goodwill and give them back to the society is to
engage the society in a wheel of life. This is a plan to collect
the goodwill.
Budget: $3,000,000
(1)
Promotion of limited edition of original T-shirt
(2)
Sales of the artist’s about 50 art works ( 10 in Taiwan,
10 in the U.S., and 30 in Japan)
(3)
Collection of donation
Line Items:
Production fee
Advertisement fee
Personnel
(directors, actors, producers, and artists)
Articles on the Japanese news paper
Take a look my recent works
http://www.epochtimes.jp/jp/2009/09/html/d56355.html
http://www.epochtimes.jp/jp/2009/09/html/d69316.html
http://www.epochtimes.jp/jp/2009/10/html/d24725.html
http://www.epochtimes.jp/jp/2009/10/html/d41146.html
http://www.epochtimes.jp/jp/2009/11/html/d15105.html
Lin Shih Pao's Queens Crossing Sculpture
Heavenly Timing, Earthly Advantage, Human
HarmonyInfinity
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Place:
Queens Crossing
39th Avenue at 138th Street, Flushing, NY
11354
Cow Parade
 
Tiger 2010
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Lin Shih-Pao
