TIF reflects on living in bad world and promotes 'It is ok not to be perfect all the time' manifesto

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/12/20
By: Lyla Liu, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter\

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)— The Taipei Illustration Fair (TIF) theme this year is, “Why Why Why,” and features Asian illustrators exploring a turbulent environment, at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park until Dec. 22.

The second edition of TIF gathers 120 Asian illustrators and their “bad” artworks to explore a “bad world.” The Chinese exhibition name “壞壞壞,” (huai, huai, huai or bad, bad, bad) sounds like the English exhibition name, explains curator Andy Yen (顏寧志).

Yen said works can be “bad” in many ways, as they may be the product of bad ideas and thoughts, from artists with bad personalities, or just bad drawings. He added there is a reason for displaying “bad works” and that is to encourage people to make mistakes for themselves.

Yen said the first edition of the fair, themed "New Age Ukiyo-e" (青春浮世繪) showed off a cute and sweet style, which is popular. However, he wanted to show the public a different face this time, hence he invited Mr. Paul, who has 350,000 followers on Instagram, and Iku Iku Studio, which mainly looks at sexual themes.    [FULL  STORY]