Exhibition view | Photo by the Liu Kuo-sung Foundation
Presented by the NTMoFA, the two-year exhibition Arts as Imprints of the Times: Permanent Collection of the NTMoFA is organised in three stages. Through the display and study of works from the Museum’s collection, the five curators—Huang Tung-fu, Hsueh Yen-ling, Lin Chen-ching, Tsai Chao-yi and Feng Sheng-hsuan—map out the development threads of Taiwan’s art history. The second stage of the exhibition runs from January 17 to August 16, 2026.
Liu Kuo-sung’s works are shown in the third thematic zone—Waves and Impacts: Development of Taiwanese Art from 1945 to 1979. Using a sociology-of-art perspective, curator Lin Chen-ching has selected around 90 works in various media, including oil, ink, watercolor and Eastern gouache (jiaocaihua) paintings, and sculptures, to first explore how Taiwanese artists initiated a modern art movement in Taiwan in 1945, under the influence of postwar international art trends, and then how socio-political shifts and diplomatic setbacks in the 1970s reshaped artists’ cultural reflections and returned them to their native roots.
Within the Waves and Impacts zone, Liu’s Mountain beyond Mountains (1968) was presented in the exhibition’s first stage; his Moon’s Metamorphosis No.2 (1970) is currently on display in the second stage. Both works clearly demonstrate Liu’s continuous exploration of the formal vocabulary of modern ink from the late 1960s to the 1970s, and the important position Liu occupied in the development of post-war modern ink.
Dates | January 17 – August 16, 2026
Times | 09:00–17:00 Tuesday to Friday; 09:00–18:00 Saturday and Sunday
Venue | National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts