No/Thing | 本來無一物
Opening 開幕
17.12.2011 (Sat) 5:00pm
Exhibition Period 展期
17.12.2011-08.01.2012
Artist Commune
Unit 12 Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, Kowloon
藝術公社
九龍馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村12號單位
Hours :12:00noon - 8:00pm , Tue- Sun
This is an exhibition of New Trend 2011 series.
17.12.2011 (Sat) 5:00pm
Exhibition Period 展期
17.12.2011-08.01.2012
Artist Commune
Unit 12 Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, Kowloon
藝術公社
九龍馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村12號單位
Hours :12:00noon - 8:00pm , Tue- Sun
This is an exhibition of New Trend 2011 series.
Dajian Huineng/ Huineng of Sixth and Last Patriarch once said, “Fundamentally there is not a single thing, where could any dust be attracted?” Many had heard the saying from Chán Buddhism, but one may has their own interpretation of the sentence. As one of the four awardees of New Trend 2011, Oscar Chan has his own reading of these words. He observed his muse from the “free and ease” of Chán Buddhism and created a series of works that are corresponding in his first solo exhibition. The artist created a series of mixed media pieces to present his thoughts and provide a sensible aspect to discover the “existence”, “nothingness”, “void”, and “solidity” of life.
The exhibition evolved from the artist’s bit and pieces of life experiences: His work “Scar” was based on a major brain operation in childhood, while working, Chan reflected his helplessness from the scar and his life, by relating his scar to other personal wound in livelihood. In the mean time, with the work “Since All is Void”, which titled the exhibition, he transformed the exhibition space into an obscure /ambiguity surrounding by using painted images on tiles. The artist also tried to chew on our obsession and ease towards the elements of real and unreal, solid and void, of all existences, with his own visual experiences. |
六祖慧能曰﹕「本來無一物,何處惹塵埃」。不少人都聽過禪宗這詩偈,但究竟如何詮釋其中含義,卻人人自有不同看法。《出爐2011新人獎》得主陳翊朗對此話別有一番體會。他從禪宗的灑脫取得創作的靈感,並以「本來無一物」為題舉辦他的首個個人展覽。展覽以不同形式的混合媒介作品呈現藝術家的思考,讓觀眾以新的感知角度探究生命的「有」、「無」、「虛」、「實」。
是次展覽源自陳翊朗對過往生活點滴的體驗。如題為《疤痕》的作品便以他童年腦部手術所留下的疤痕為本,透過作品去了解自己對傷痕、對生命的無奈,並從個人的傷痕聯繫到人生得失所刻下的痕跡。另外,點題作品《本來無一物》利用展場寛濶的環境,以畫在階磚上的圖像營造一個似有還無的環境。藝術家嘗試以視覺經驗為本,玩味萬象世間的有與無、真與假及我們對此的執著與釋懷。 |