NTHU Center for Arts and Culture

Bad Taste - Mr. OGAY Solo Exhibition

Exhibition：2024.9.10（Wed.）~ 10.9（Wed.）/  NTHU Center for Arts and Culture_General Building 2 (1Ｆ)     
Opening：9.10（Wed.）16:00  /  NTHU Center for Arts and Culture_General Building 2 (1Ｆ)
Weekdays 12:00-18:00 / Weekends 12:00-17:00

National Holidays (Moon Festival) 09.17 Closed

Mr. OGAY is a Taiwan street artist who calls himself an angry youth filled with love. He enjoys traveling around the world to create graffiti art, often featuring scantily clad or nude men. Since encountering graffiti art in 2000, his works have spread widely, making him the most reported artist in Taiwan's graffiti history.

Mr. OGAY believes that creation is a way to honestly face oneself. Based on his  concern for this land, his works are often filled with powerful critiques of current events. His style is direct, unpretentious, and sharply critical yet difficult to refute. Using humor, he aims to awaken people's desires and respect and to satirize the hypocritical moral standards of the world. By treating "ugliness" as vocabulary, he has developed his own unique creative mode, reinterpreting the relationship between systems, social issues, people, and the environment through his works. He attempts to subvert existing values, stripping away external appearances to contemplate the inner essence of people and things from another perspective.

The exhibition titled "Bad Taste" satirizes the elitism present in many contemporary art exhibitions, where entering the exhibition space seemingly elevates one's status and taste. Artworks are expected to meet the standards of collectors to be considered true "art." In this exhibition, Mr. OGAY connects some of his most representative works from recent years through canvases and on-site graffiti, complemented by unique installations created on-site. This allows viewers to experience the energetic and satirical creative language of Mr. OGAY.