The exhibition “Breaking Free” started from Feb. 6 to Jun. 31 in Asia Museum of Modern Art at Asia University (AU). The exhibition opens to the public except the New Year’s Eve and the first day of the year. To welcome visitors, the price of the tickets for three persons is reduced to five hundred dollars at Feb. 9 to Feb.14 in the lunar new year’s vacation.

The director of Asia Museum of Modern Art at AU, Me-Lin Li, mentioned that one of the artists joining the exhibition, Ashin, comes from the famous band MayDay. She also said that Ashin is a representative artist in Taiwan with distinguished interdisciplinary artistic creation who was born in the era of 1960s-1970s.

Li pointed out as well that Arman was a French-born American artist who cut objects into pieces and recompose them into artworks. Owing to this reason, he is best known for his and destruction/recomposition of objects, called "accumulations." The artworks of Arman shown in this exhibition most come from the personal collection of a Founder of AU, Prof. Chang-Hai Tsai.

Paul Chiang is an international Taiwan artist. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University. For about 30 years he lived in New York and Paris to learn West art, but now he lives in Taitung in Taiwan for the past few years. The exhibition “Breaking Free” shows his artworks, “Centennial Hall,” “Music,” “Dream of Pisirian” and “Fly of Song,” etc.

Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist whose artistic works depend upon the uses of electronic, sound, and image technologies in the new media area. His works focus on ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness. The exhibition “Breaking Free” shows his artworks, “Becoming Light, 2005,” “The Innocents, 2007” and “Two Women, 2008.” His artworks can be divided into three types, conceptual, visual, and a unique combination of the two.