Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation

The award ceremony for the TDCC Brainstorming Contemporary Arts Award was held in the morning on December 27 2018. The venue was packed with winners, their advisors, and their parents. Distinguished guests such as Wang Yung-Hsin, Director-General of Securities and Futures Bureau (SFB) of Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), Lin Zhi-Ming, Director of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and President of International Association of Art Critics (AICA), as well as the jury also attended the ceremony. They presented the winning students with prizes and took pictures with them.

Distinguished guests, e.g. SFB Director-General Wang Yung-Hsin (the fifth person from the right in the front row), Liang Jin-Zhi, Head at the Department of Arts Development of Ministry of Culture (the fifth person from the left in the front row), TDCC Chairman & CEO Sherman Lin (the fourth person from the right in the front row), TDCC President Meng Ching-Li (the fourth person from the left in the front row), and Lin Chi-Ming, Director of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (the third person from the right in the front row), took pictures with winning students.

Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation (TDCC) has always supported the market with sustainable development. Once deriving benefit from society, TDCC will definitely return the favor back to society. Thus, TDCC has dedicated to charity work for a long time. This time, TDCC got involved with local art and organized the TDCC Brainstorming Contemporary Arts Award which attracted works from all over Taiwan. The registration period was from July to August 2018. A large number of works–324 pieces were submitted from 172 students at departments of arts from different universities or colleges in Taiwan. There was a fair and professional three-stage review conducted by the jury. In the end, one Masterpiece Prize, one Special Jury Prize, and eight Prizes of Excellence were selected. TDCC has completed the decoration of the public areas in the office with the winning works. Winning students will elaborate on their concepts of works on the day of the ceremony. By doing this, TDCC hopes participants can get closer to the art pieces.

In the remarks given by Sherman Lin, TDCC Chairman & CEO, he said that this event aimed to encourage more youths and students to display social issues through their artwork. The process of creation will be like a seed planted in their hearts, widening their horizons. At the same time, TDCC also hopes to send aesthetics into all national’s lives, so the exhibition venue will be in the office. Thus, employees and participants can get closer to art in the most natural way. They can open up conversations and have more inspiration and feelings of life when they are discussing the artwork.

Wang Yung-Hsin, SFB Director-General, also mentioned that art could be the sparkle in a wonderful life. She recognized TDCC’s patronage to cultural and artistic events. It is an enterprise with humanistic qualities and corporate social responsibility (CSR) that fosters the innovation of combining traditional techniques and contemporarily art. Wang encouraged TDCC to keep supporting artistic activities because “there was no end for inheritance and no boundary for innovation.”

The TDCC Brainstorming Contemporary Arts Award invited SFB Director-General Wang Yung-Hsin (in the middle) to present the Masterpiece Prize to Xie Cheng-You (second person from the right). (From right to left stood TDCC Chairman & CEO Sherman Lin, Xie Cheng-You, SFB Director-General Wang Yung-Hsin, Lin Chi-Ming, Director of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and TDCC President Meng Ching-Li.)

Lin Chi-Ming, AICA President, pointed out that there were diverse themes in this competition. He could feel the inexhaustible energy of creation bursting from young Taiwanese artists. He has invited critics, artists, and curators to form a jury to select and judge the artwork from a broader perspective. Lin was glad that TDCC organized this event to support young artists through real action. He also hoped that, with this experience, other enterprises could start to care about and value Taiwan’s artistic events.

TDCC will keep supporting artistic events, seeking potential artists, as well as encouraging cultural and creative industry in the future in the hopes that the society will start more trends of creation, have more conversations between culture and society, explore our inner selves with the society as a whole, understand the core value of human civilization, and incorporate humanistic spirit in Taiwan’s society.

[TDCC Brainstorming Contemporary Arts Award]

Website: http://www.brainstorming-art-awards.com/

The opening of the award ceremony→https://youtu.be/51QAn2oQr1k