《沒有意義》杜海銓個人作品展
〈That's it〉Solo Exhibition of Tao Hoi Chuen Jacky
展期: 2018年9月29日(週六)至10月2日(週二)
地點: 香港會議展覽中心 展覽廳3 J16展位
a.m. space在「水墨藝博2018」呈現杜海銓個展《沒有意義》。
杜海銓探討作品的存在意義,思考關於繪畫功能,藝術本質等問題。本展覽將展示畫家得獎作品,一組七件水墨裝置《如是存在》,以及最新的人物工筆畫。畫家描繪人物睡眠的姿態,透過觀察人的無意識狀態,反抗流於表面的「意義」,單純地呈現並探尋存在的本質。
Exhibition Period: Friday, 28.9.2018 – Tuesday, 2.10. 2018
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hall 3, Booth J16
a.m. space is proud to present TAO Hoi Chuen’s solo exhibition, That’s it, at Ink Asia 2018.
Tao Hoi Chuen practices contemporary Chinese Ink painting. Using Chinese Ink as a means to discuss the existential significance, functionality of painting and the essence of art. We will present his latest Chinese fine-lined figurative paintings and his award-winning ink installation, Being as it is (2018), a set of 7 paintings depicting various unconscious figures. The painter approaches the essence of existence by revolting against the idea of meaningfulness. Eradicating the traditional approach of semiotics, the painter emphasizes on intuition and the presence the object.
關於《沒有意義》
對創作的意義繼續追問下去,是關於繪畫功能,藝術本質等問題。後來我慢慢發現大部 分意義都是人為賦予的,例如深信藝術可以改變世界是因為我們需要讓藝術繼續合理地 發生,我們要通過尋找藝術的終極本質來充實繼續做作品的原因。創作本身可以是沒有 意義的,那麼沒有意義也可以成為作品存在的唯一意義。
因此,對意義的刪減成為杜氏創作的主軸。例如睡覺行為是死亡以外,人最靜止的狀態 ,就是要把人存在的事實如其所是的單純呈現;在宣紙上畫出紙的紋理是為了回到紙為 物本身。在緩慢的繪畫過程中,這是一個「薛西弗斯式」的方法,不斷詢問作品的存在 意義。在畫紙上畫多少條相同的線都會有畫完一整幅畫的時候,但真正重覆而沒有意義 的,可能是不斷創作的行為本身。
繪畫或許只需要一種意義,就是沒有意義。
About "That's it"
To continue questioning about the meaning of creation, is to question about the function of paints, the nature of art. By time goes I gradually realized that, most meanings are endowed by people; for example, we believe that art will change the world, because we need art continue generating for certain reason, we want to look for the ultimate essence of art, to provide motivation for working on art But art can be meaningless, thus meaningless can also be meaning of art.
Therefore, the main axis of Tao’s works is to delete the meaning. For example, the sleep, which is the most static state of human being except for the death, is presenting human being as it is; the painted texture of paper on paper is returning to the material nature of paper. During the long process of painting, this Sisyphus-way is constantly questioning the meaning of the existence of art work.
Perhaps , the only meaning painting needs is meaningless.