Ultimate 3D moves to Taipei

Back in Taiwan last month to assist with the installation of the Ultimate 3D exhibition at a new venue in the capital Taipei. The show attracted 140,000 in Kaohsiung so we are hoping to improve on that figure.

We stayed in the very attractive W Hotel, where I had the chance to rest up and acclimatise before going to the venue.


This was the view from the bathroom, looking out towards the city.

and what I thought was a radio beside the loo, turned out to have more interesting functions

There was also some fabulous corridor art

The Songshan Cultural and Creative Park was a ten minute walk away, and located close to various other attractions. There was an exhibition of Karl Lagerfeld photographs just nearbye.

The building itself was in the Japanese style and at about 60 years old, fairly ancient for Taipei. A cavernous warehouse conversion it provided a perfect blank canvas to work on.

This time the installation crew were relaxed and cheerful, more confident of what needed to be done. You know a transmission hologram is properly lit when it casts a rainbow on the viewer's face.

Shu-Min Lin, Taiwan's best known holographic artist, had seen the exhibition in Kaohsiung and, to my delight had asked for some of his work to be included this time. We last met in 1994 at Lake Forest but I recognised him at once and was really pleased to be showing his holograms.

Mostly pulsed portraits of people, there were also glass vases containing holograms that you could look down into.

I was pleased with the way the show looked in the new venue. The lower ceiling gave a more human scale and the layout flowed more easily. 

The Art pieces are displayed in a discreet gallery of their own, but the local design team like to add graphics to jazz up other sections of the show and sometimes I think it works - as with the Richmond Holographic Studios 'Mime' hologram and the Light Fantastic 'Cheshire Cat', in the Kids Section of the show.

I had to fly home before the opening but UEG's man on the spot, Zex Yeh, sent me some of the above photos and I found this one of Shu-Min Lin opening the exhibition on the Ultimate 3D Facebook page.

Fingers crossed it all goes well and I should be back in Taiwan in the Autumn for the next leg of the tour!  It would have been nice to see more of the city, which I last visited in 1990, but I did get a chance to visit UEG's other exhibition in town - Salvador Dali, Mind of Genius!