展覽日期：2015.07.02-07.18
開放時間：週三(WED.)-週日(SUN.) 13:00~21:00
展覽地點：自由人藝術公寓 Freedom Men Art Apartments(台中市五權594號)

 

 

展覽簡介/

我好像是由兩個截然不同腦子拼在一起的個體,一方的我大筆潑灑,受不了極刁鑽的寫實功夫。另一方的我又偶爾會著魔似的拼命雕磨小地方,到過分謹慎的程度。也如同,半邊腦瘋狂地隨音樂搖頭擺動,渴望拔掉所有理智線路;另一邊腦子卻穩穩地將我釘住,不吵不鬧,簡直像是安靜的木偶。

引領我創作的是這兩者的綜合,其共通點是想太多。一面因為想太多而需要解放;另一面則因為想太多而必須固守原地。

讓我們借用教育部字典解釋:

[鑽牛角尖]

注釋：

(1)比喻人固執而不知變通，費力的研究無用或無法解決的問題。

(2)牛角尖端又硬又窄，用以比喻思想固執，自陷困境。亦可用以比喻人好鑽研深奧而無價值之問題。

藝術像是牛角,想太開可能就沒有牛角可以鑽了。也許某些事物看似簡單有個明確的答案,但太多人生的疑問其實都沒有解答可言。而費力去想就成了一輩子的課題。或效法宗教,盡力擺脫人性中那些會令我們受苦或迷失的部分。所以我寧可鑽這個「無法解決」的人生牛角。

 

創作理念/

我所描繪的,是各種鑽牛角尖的產物。

扭曲變形的人體,比例怪異的人與獸造型,各種表情,與擬獸或擬物之角色,在各種奇幻地與場合出現。他們在被畫筆顏料「捕捉」的當下,也許還在嘆息ˋ低語ˋ放空ˋ苦笑ˋ無聲哭泣…呢。我的畫布畫紙就像他們大顯身手的舞台。

平日我們釋放出的關於自身之訊息,大多是被美化過ˋ篩濾過ˋ有意無意地經營自己的形象。從早期的部落格與相簿,到現在的facebook和instagram等等,無不是個人品牌形象的呈現,有些苦心經營的,其真實生活與其版面還真是天差地遠呀;也有真正非常充實地生活的,忙到無時間可以釋放個人訊息。

這樣的反差豈不是非常迷人嗎? 你所以為的某人,在現實中卻是截然不同的。又或者那看似虛擬的幻象,才是他內心的真實呢?我所創作的,多半是這種正與反ˋ同與異,尤其「表裡不一」更是我所鍾愛的。

這就是我這些「扭曲」「變形」的出發點。掌握自己沒聽到的,那些沒說出口的;或是「不是你想的這樣」的背後,他到底在說甚麼呢?

哎呀,想太多就變成鑽牛角尖了,但藝術性的鑽牛角尖,也不是什麼壞事,是吧?!

 

創作脈絡/

靈感源自於個人生活的點滴 、書籍 、電影、旅行、所見所聞… 對人與人之間各種喜怒哀樂、荒誕無稽、酸苦無奈、身不由己、脆弱卑賤…等感觸極深,試著以線條畫或抽象的色彩交疊呈現出各種思考對應的面相。畢卡索如是說 ＂The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.＂藝術的功能在於洗滌每日生活的塵埃。之於創作者而言，創作也具療癒的功能，使無法書寫、無法口語表達的那些感觸，朝外尋求可降落的一塊淨土。

從抽象出發, 帶入半具象的形體, 化為半人半獸的組合，呈現人性中的獸性和往往超出掌控的行為或情緒 ；變形的飛鳥走禽 ,是身在各種處境中的化身； 不自然的人體 ,是我們看似自然狀態卻實際不然的糾葛掙扎； 尖銳的表情刻畫 ,是情感中難以壓制抹滅的一瞬； 或以色彩繽紛的色塊與幾合線條的交織刻劃出各種思緒空間的模樣，歡喜、慾望、惆悵、憤怒、哀傷…等。

在不同的創作主題裡，不變的是試圖呈現凝凍的情緒或濃縮的精神面。描述個體或群體的情感、遭遇、省思。或以超現實的空間畫面與虛擬角色傳達，或以半具象的型態描繪。透過作品，為生命的過去、現在、未來留下註解與印記。

 

藝術家簡歷/

吳筱瑩 

2012-2014 彩繪帆布商品品牌Happy Together與Little Ying 於耐斯彩虹市集,中正大學藝文市集,檜意森活村等地販售.

2010 Member of Bayswater Road Art Market, (London, U.K.) 駐點畫家

2006-2009 Camberwell College of Arts, BA Painting (London,U.K)

2005-2006 University for the Creative Arts( Maidstone ), Foundation(U.K.)

[個展]

2010 個人藝術展, 東區戶政事務所, 嘉義, 台灣

[聯展]

2015 女性外貌身影-從自我凝視開始, 台灣女性藝術協會

2015 當代藝軌-嘉義市鐵道藝術發展協會會員聯展,嘉義縣協志工商 

2015 吳筱瑩&徐皖華油畫聯展,嘉義市大同技術學院

2014 當代藝軌-嘉義市鐵道藝術發展協會會員聯展,嘉義縣協志工商 

2014 當代藝軌-嘉義市鐵道藝術發展協會會員聯展,嘉義市立博物館

2010 ‘Painting & Sculpture Exhibition’ Candid Arts Trust Centre, London, U.K.

2009 Camberwell College of Arts Degree Show, London, U.K.

2008 ‘140’ Area 10, Camberwell Art Cluster Show, London, U.K.

2008 ‘Myths and Monsters ‘, Group Exhibition & Charity Auction, King’s College Hospital, London, U.K.

 

Introduction/

I have always wondered if I am composed by two different parts of brains. Sometimes I spread paints madly; sometimes I am really obsessed with the details. It’s like half of me is shaking my head with the loudest music, eager for losing my marbles; the other half of me is standing still like a doll, as quiet as it could be.

The common point of the two selves is Obsession. One needs to get rid of the obsession, and the other one needs to submit to it.

Ob·ses·sion n.

1. Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
2. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

Art definitely is related to Obsession. Without obsession, what can we achieve in the art field? Being obsessive to art and life is not a bad idea; I think people can’t really figure out all doubts and questions in our lives. Some people try to find the answers from religions, some are struggled all lifelong. I don’t mind suffering or being confused, actually those elements really make our lives interesting and flavorful.

 

Artist statement/

I have always obsessive in drawing/painting twisted images and weird animal-like figures. My canvases are the stages for the characters I created. They present the condensed condition which I observed from my daily life. My ideas come from almost everything, like books, fictions, films. , music, art, friends, families…. I love all stories about the imperfection of human beings. We are complicated, we don’t live in the world defined by only black and white, and I mostly enjoyed the grey area.

I also love the fact that the new technology leads us to the wider gap between our real lives and our facebook/instagram lives (etc.). Everyone is a brand now; we create our brand via the social media. We select and filtered the emotions/thoughts, and then we publish the information we want people to know about us.

What we see online most of time is totally different from the reality. This confliction really interests me, so that my project is usually about emotions& confliction from “the common people”.

The Artistic obsession with observing people and our real lives is never a bad thing, is it.

 

About/

My inspirations are from my personal life, books, films, trips, stories from friends and families… I am particularly interested to the Emotions of people. When we face all kinds of situation, no matter it’s positive or negative, what feeling do we have? How do we cover up the real feeling inside of us? Also, what are the real words we want to say but we couldn’t? I present these ideas from semi-expressionism and abstraction.

Picasso said, “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.＂

Art can cure our souls by expressing the things we can’t write down, or replacing the words we couldn’t find.

The birds and animals I painted are playing roles of us. The wired and twisted figures are telling how much we struggle as we pretend like nothing has happened. All faces on my paintings are the proofs of the real emotion.

Expressing the reality under the masks and the grey area under our souls is the main road for me to realize more about myself and people.

 

 

Artist Introduction/

Hsiao-Ying Wu

2012-2014 Built the brands selling hand-painted bags ”Happy Together” &” Little Ying”, Chiayi

2010 Member of Bayswater Road Art Market, (London, U.K.) 駐點畫家

2006-2009 Camberwell College of Arts, BA Painting (London,U.K)

2005-2006 University for the Creative Arts( Maidstone ), Foundation(U.K.)

[Solo Exhibition]

Hsiao-Ying Wu Solo Exhibition, East District Household Registration Office, Chiayi city, Taiwan.

[Group Exhibition]

2015 The Image of a Woman’s appearance -start from Self-gazing ,WAA House, Taipei, Taiwan

2015 Annual Group Exhibition of Chiayi Railway Art Development Association, Sieh Chih Vovational High School,Chiayi, Taiwan

2015 Hsiao-Ying Wu& Wan-Hua Hsu Painting exhibition, Tatung Institute of Technology,Chiayi, Taiwan

2014 Annual Group Exhibition of Chiayi Railway Art Development Association, Sieh Chih Vovational High School,Chiayi, Taiwan

2014 Annual Group Exhibition of Chiayi Railway Art Development Association, Chiayi Municipal Museum, Taiwan

2010 ‘Painting & Sculpture Exhibition’ Candid Arts Trust Centre, London, U.K.

2009 Camberwell College of Arts Degree Show, London, U.K.

2008 ‘140’ Area 10, Camberwell Art Cluster Show, London, U.K.

2008 ‘Myths and Monsters ‘, Group Exhibition & Charity Auction, King’s College Hospital, London, U.K.