"Rebirth of Kiln Charm - 2026 Nantou Ceramics Special Exhibition" is on display at Huludun Cultural Center in Taichung City

Cheung Wing-yu's work "Kowloon Boil" displays superb pasting sculpture techniques and highlights the majestic energy of the dragon's head and coils. (Photo by reporter Ou Sumei)

"Kiln Rhythm Reborn - 2026 Nantou Ceramics Special Exhibition" will be on display at Huludun Cultural Center in Taichung City from now until October 25th! Selected from Nantou ceramic art collections, award-winning works and masterpieces by famous artists, from traditional and skillful memories accumulated over generations to contemporary creations, it showcases the heritage of kiln fire and the new look of art.

The Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taichung City stated that the Huludun Cultural Center has been actively connecting Taiwan's cultural and museum resources for many years, bringing precious cultural and artistic achievements from all over the world into Taichung, and practicing the concept of "cultural equality and art accessibility". This year, the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Nantou County Government was specially invited to cooperate with the exhibition. The Nantou kiln industry has been around for more than 200 years since its founding in the Qing Dynasty, and has developed diverse techniques such as relief, openwork carving, inlay, appliqué, and clay decoration. This exhibition also brings together the creative masterpieces of Nantou pottery families, a kiln art that has been passed down from generation to generation, showing the ever-changing vitality of clay.

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Among the exhibited works, Luo Jiming, winner of the "Taichung City Artists Relay Exhibition", exhibited the first-prize work "Wind of the Summer Night" in the ceramics category of the Nantou County Yushan Art Awards. He is good at creating fascinating color changes with glaze patterns, and combines dots, lines, surface elements and exquisite depictions of animals and plants to make the work full of visual hierarchy.

Zhang Yongyu, chairman of the Nantou Ceramics Society, presented his "Kowloon Boil" with exquisite pasting sculpture techniques, highlighting the majestic energy of the dragon's head and coils. Lin Guolong, the third generation of the Shuili Snake Kiln who inherited nearly a century of wood-fired history, brought the "virtual and real landscape" ceramic art aesthetic language that shows the interweaving of the actual landscape and the inner artistic conception.

In addition, the work "Dragon Plate" by Zeng Zhizhi, the fourth generation descendant of the "Ushi Unbori Pottery Family", uses a roughened disk combined with inlay techniques to depict the whirling shape of the dragon's body through molding and outline, showing the profound craftsmanship inherited by the family pottery. The "Huanglong" Pu'er tea warehouse created by Lin Qinghe, the third generation kiln owner of "Tianxing Kiln", strikes a balance between airtightness, stability and ventilation, and also implies the submersion and release of inner power.

The "2026 Nantou Ceramics Special Exhibition" will be on display at the Huludun Cultural Center in Taichung City from now until October 25. (Photo by reporter Ou Sumei)