The viewer’s eye contact with a painting is like moonlight floating on water, a contact from another dimension. Although there is no barrier between them, they cannot really merge.

Since the second half of the twentieth century, art studies centered on the subjective experience of the viewer have begun to emerge. Alois Riegl has argued that the subjectivity of the modern viewer dissolves the materiality of the work and that Stimmung, the subjective emotions of the modern human being, becomes the mainstay of modern art, which functions to provide spiritual solace in a time of loss of religious beliefs. its function was to provide spiritual comfort in an age of lost religious beliefs.

Gene Gallery is now presenting a two-artist exhibition, “Old Fire, New Spring”, which analyses the real life energy contained in the works from the viewer’s point of view, constructing a hidden space in a subtropical region with a changeable climate, so that the viewer and the works can read and digest each other without any barriers.