Born in keelung in 1964, Hsi-Te Sung graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan with a Ph.D. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sculpture under the College of Fine Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts after spending ten years teaching in the Department of Visual Communication Design at the same university from 2001 through 2010. With a specialization on both design and art, he visualizes the non-everlasting and the everlasting in an expressive style which transforms concepts into techniques.

“Human,” “move,” “environment,” and “field” have always been the major concern in Sung’s artistic perspective and approach, through which he attempts to integrate the cold metal texture of stainless steel with the warmth reflection of color and light refracted through the mirror surface. He thus transforms the non-material elements such as “light,” “power,” and “magnetic force” into a multi-dimensional structure of various possibilities. Apart from kinetic art, his focus in recent years is to combine different textures of steel-cutting treatments and the mirror surface of stainless steel to explore how materials and shapes represent the cultural concepts of “artistic spontaneity & field” in his landscape series.

We have long ignored the original material essence of everything. Sung is willing to delve into the existence of substance based on Eastern philosophy, revealing the essence as well as discovering new aspects in a concrete, straightforward, and humble way. The traces of both the material and the spiritual are well preserved in the world of steel and stainless steel.