'Water of immortality' takes center stage at exhibition at Taipei museum
A long-lost nude sculpture by late Taiwanese sculptor Huang Tu-shui (黃土水) is to be the central exhibit at a show at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education from today through April. The exhibition, titled “Lumiere: The Enlightenment and Self-Awakening of Taiwanese Culture,” is to feature the newly rediscovered sculpture — Water of Immortality (甘露水), which was formerly known as Sweet Dew — along with paintings and writing by more than 20 Taiwanese artists and literary figures of the Japanese colonial period. Curator Lin Mun-lee (林曼麗), who discovered the s...