The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts has opened its international exhibition of the year: the first large-scale solo show in Taiwan by Michael Craig-Martin, the British conceptual artist whose teaching at Goldsmiths helped shape the generation known as the Young British Artists. Titled 'The Language of the Everyday,' the exhibition opens to the public on October 3, gathering more than 70 works spanning five decades, on view through March 7, 2027. The artist himself flew in from London to attend the October 2 preview, joining city officials, museum director Yen Ming-hung, British Office representative Wayne Ives, and arts patrons for the unveiling. Craig-Martin described the experience of seeing a half-century of his work assembled in one place as an emotional one — few artists, he said, ever get the chance to look at their entire creative life at once. The show traces the arc from his landmark 1973 conceptual work 'An Oak Tree' — a glass of water on a shelf accompanied by a text that questions the relationship between objects and perception — to his signature paintings of everyday things rendered in saturated color and crisp, technical-drawing lines: high heels, headphones, screws, and laptops stripped of function and presented as pure image. Works are drawn from major public collections including MoMA, Tate, and the Centre Pompidou. A centerpiece is 'Cosmos' (2024), the immersive digital installation first unveiled at the Royal Academy of Arts, shown here for the first time outside Britain. Remade for Kaohsiung with 184 LED panels forming a curved screen four meters high and eleven meters wide, the five-channel work aggregates four decades of the artist's object imagery into a drifting, particle-driven universe the artist calls the sum of his cosmos. Four large outdoor sculptures extend the exhibition into the museum's 43-hectare art park, where flat line-drawn objects become three-dimensional forms that shift between image and line as viewers move around them. The museum is pairing the show with a 'British Cultural Year' program of nearly 70 public events, launching a new annual series tying each year's flagship show to a different country's culture.