Hsu Yunghsu: International Touring Ceramic & Sculpture Exhibition – Seoul → Van, Turkey → Seravezza, Italy

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Turkey , Van, Edremit, 65000, Italia

26/03/2026 - 26/04/2026

A New Route for Global Art: Hsu Yunghsu’s World-Touring Exhibition at Tariria

Taiwanese master artist Hsu Yunghsu’s international traveling exhibition Sisyphus’s Doubt opened on March 14, 2026, at the Tariria Culture, Art and Gastronomy Center in Van, marking its first presentation in Turkey. The exhibition has drawn significant public attention and will remain on view until April 26, 2026. Following its stop in Turkey, the exhibition will continue its journey to Seravezza, Italy, connecting audiences across Europe with a cultural dialogue that spans East Asia and Europe, centered on material, labor, and endurance.

Widely recognized as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary ceramic art, Yunghsu pushes clay beyond traditional boundaries, transforming it into a monumental language of bodily resistance. Nearly four decades ago, he left a secure academic career to dedicate himself fully to the rhythm of earth and fire. Today, he continues his practice at one of Taiwan’s largest ceramic kiln studios in Tainan.

A turning point in Yunghsu’s work came during his 2005–2006 New York residency, where he encountered the monumental steel sculptures of Richard Serra. Rejecting conventional ceramic smoothness, he embraces cracks, voids, and smoky tonalities as aesthetic strategies. His modular structures, expanding organically according to exhibition space, invite viewers to confront the tension of material and spatial gravity directly.

Returning to the ancient coil technique, Yunghsu constructs each work through direct physical engagement. In an era dominated by digitalized and outsourced production, his sculptures bear the marks of hands, palms, and endurance. Inspired by the myth of Sisyphus, the artist treats art as an ongoing ritual rather than a final product; each fingerprint and layered coil becomes a memory embedded in clay.

After its presentation in Van, the exhibition will continue to Seravezza, Italy, sustaining a universal narrative shaped around patience, the resilience of material, and the timeless relationship between body and earth.