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Taipei, 15.9.2018 – 4.11.2018
Following the success of the Bugs’ Book, which received Silver at the World’s Most Beautiful Book Award in Leipzig, Germany in 2017, this exhibition held in Taipei once again explores the inexhaustible creations of bugs as compiled by Zhu Yingchun.
At the centre of the exhibition is a twenty meter long scroll with expressive marks left by bugs that allow visitors to escape the human world and see life from a new perspective. Visitors are also invited to write messages using a special font devised from the chew marks made by leaf miner flies.
During the exhibition’s run, a special collector’s edition of the Bugs’ Book was launched, published by Lion Art.
2015
Guangxi Normal University Press
Bugs’ Book is a major work of Zhu Yingchun’s and the result of several years of painstakingly observing the wildlife around his studio. Seemingly a textbook, the book does not in fact contain a single word. Rather it is a mysterious creation of the bugs themselves making Zhu Yingchun not creator, but discoverer and compiler.
The traces of snails, earthworms, stink bugs and other insects, to which many turn a blind eye, are the subject of Zhu Yingchun’s gaze and his ever-expanding curiosity and marvel. Like Chinese calligraphy or landscape painting, the work of each bug has a distinctive style, from the cursive script of the leaf-miner flies to the earthworms’ apparent seal script, the dry brushwork of the stink bug to the long-horned beetles and their dotted textures.
2017 The Best Book Design from All Over the World
Leipzig, Germany.
The UK edition is titled The Language of Bugs and published by ACC Art Books.