LIU Kuo-Sung

A ridge seems to hover in space. LIU Kuo-Sung balances crisp, near-photographic edges with the tactile grain of lithographic printing — technique and feeling in one frame.
    After graduating in 1956 from Taiwan Provincial Normal University (today National Taiwan Normal University), LIU co-founded the Fifth Moon Group (May Movement), a circle of young artists seeking a modern language for Taiwan. Their aim: move beyond salon conventions, fuse abstraction with Chinese traditions, and exhibit on their own terms. Beneath this was a broader search — how to speak locally while joining a changing world; how to honor ink and paper yet make something new.
    In the 1960s, LIU built a modern idiom rooted in ink, often tearing paper into strips to shape form. Later, he explored marbling — floating ink on water and transferring it to paper — opening landscapes that feel both ancient and newly imagined.