ART BY Oliver C.I. Lin      artist cv   Gaze into Life - 02-20 Gaze into Life - 02-23 Gaze into Life - 02-27 Gaze into Life - 02-21 Gaze into Life -03-01 Untitled #5 Untitled #5 Untitled #7 Untitled #2 Untitled N#1 Untitled N#6 Untitled N#4 Untitled N#3       “Treasuring Lines like Gold; Painting at Will without Easel Oliver Lin’s works contain very few lines, which occasionally perplexes western observers who count lines the specialty of Chinese painting. Why doesn’t he use lines? It sometimes sees that Oliver Lin Makes a deliberate point of being self-reliant and persistent in reverse thinking. For example he has made oil pigments transparent, and conversely made water color opaque. The few line he treasures like gold are sincere and pure, intriguing and coarse, and thy show up unexpectedly in his pictures to express thoroughly the quality of materials, sometimes as naïve circles, sometimes as loose squares. The technique required to produce works such as Eastern Fence of Tao Ch’ien (1975) is often visibly taxing for painters, but Oliver Lin’s skill makes the unrestrained lines appear effortless. Thus the contrast between lines without thickness and materials with intrinsic depth forges his individuality. Eastern Fence of Tao Ch’ien marks the beginning of a period that peaked at his work PE Net on Wooden Box (1984) which belongs to Liver Lin’s “Objects Exploring Period” (1984-86) At this point, materials and even the supporter emphasize thickness. Sometimes the thickness reaches several centimeters, enough to make the profile a significant view to appreciate. This excursion into treating every facet of the work in three dimensions led to a brief interest in sculpture and installation art (1994). During this period he began laying canvas on the floor, especially when using liquid resin, a practice that still continues. He seeks chance effects by allowing the materials to flow and bleed over the canvas. The intention is not to appropriate physical action and reaction of floor and brush. Rather it is to assist the artist to melt into the painting”. Excerpt from “Mind & Matter”, A 20 year Retrospective Exhibition of works by Oliver Lin KAOHSIUNG MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Lu Qing-fu Curator Professor of Department of Industrial Technology Education National Taiwan Normal University (Translated by Yihua Chen & Robert Curry)