消蝕・迴光－陳硯平個展: Erosion, Aura - Solo Exhibition of Chen Yenping

■ 開幕 Opening｜2016 / 6 / 4 (Sat)  2 PM
■ 地點 Venue     ｜大河美術  RIVER ART GALLERY

年屆三十的新銳藝術家陳硯平，1986年生於台灣台北，畢業於嘉義大學美術系、實踐大學媒體傳達設計研究所。此次個展系列作品以一次偶然探訪廢墟的經驗為主軸，探討生命的消逝與重生，並藉此重新審視了自我的生命歷程。在連結外在體驗與內在感受的過程中，他反思了生命的意義，並試圖透過創作的形式來終止時間的洪流；在個體生命不斷衰朽與消亡之際，尋覓盡頭處的迴光——那蘊藏在消逝與重生交替更迭之中的永恆存在。 

他選用漂白水作為顏料，透過其毀滅與重生並立的特性，以不打草稿的直覺性創作方式，下筆塗抹、噴灑在深色棉布上造成侵蝕、消融，並褪色出相對的明亮。藉由觀察人物、建築、裝飾符號，透過縫線連結家庭常見的串珠與現成物，也連結了幻覺體驗和物質真實所反思，並將抽象情感轉為可被理解的訊息，引領觀眾走入一個幻象的世界。 

Emerging artist Chen Yenping, aged 30, was born in 1986 in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from National Chiayi University with a bachelor degree in Fine Arts and Shih Chien University with a master degree in Communications Design. This series of creations focuses on a fortuitous experience of visiting ruins, exploring the disappearance and rebirth of life and thus to re-examine the stages of life of the self. He reflects the meaning of life in the process of connecting external experience and internal feelings, trying to end the stream of time by the form of creation. He seeks for the aura, which is the eternal existence contained in the change of disappearance and rebirth, at the end of the tunnel among the continuous vanishing and decaying of life of the individual. 

Chen uses bleach as a pigment, with characteristics of destruction and rebirth coexisted, to smear and spray intuitively on dark cotton to create corrosion and ablation, so it fades out to a relative brightness in the darkness without preparations for a draft. By observing people, architecture, and decorative symbols, he connects beads and found objects commonly seen in the family through sutures to link together the reflections of hallucinations and substance. Thus, he converts abstract emotions into understandable messages, guiding people to walk into a phantom world.