【EXHIBITION】
▒ 硓𥑮山：陳順築個展 ▒
Chen Shun-Chu: Coral Stone Mountain
2015/01/24 - 2015/04/26
@台北市立美術館 TFAM
藝術家陳順築(1963-2014)首次大型回顧展明天(1/24)將正式在北美館開幕，將展出陳順築1990年代以降的攝影作品、以攝影為創作媒材的複合性裝置作品、手稿，以及舊家具殘片上的手繪創作。
展覽主題以澎湖特殊地質｢硓𥑮石｣(coral stone)為名，回應藝術家對原鄉的眷念、個人與家族難以割捨的錯綜情感。澎湖臨海先民數百年來為抵禦強勁季風，發揮就地取材的生活智慧，採集質輕、多孔的海洋珊瑚礁岩體來築牆、砌屋，抵禦刺骨寒風及酷熱陽光。壘砌如山、形式不規則的硓𥑮石，一如陳順築豐富的創作生涯，以原鄉為主軸，跨越家族的悲歡離合，縫合記憶的孔洞。
陳順築為台灣解嚴後崛起於藝壇的中生代代表人物，他以個人情感濃烈的家族影像為媒材，運用家族老照片、老傢俱殘片，積極探索不同媒材組合之可能，開90年代複合影像創作之先河，以理性卻又細膩內蘊的風格，為台灣藝壇帶來清新的影像氛圍。
Chen Shun-Chu is representative of mid-career artists who came to prominence in Taiwan’s post martial law period. Images for his intensely emotional artwork come from his own family. In the 1990s he started making mixed media work with photographic images, which introduced freshness and rigor into the art world of Taiwan with their restrained style and subtle connotations.
As Chen’s first major retrospective held in Taiwan, the exhibition will include photographs, photo installations, and hand painted fragments of old furniture from the 1990s to the present. The retrospective is named for coral stone, a natural building material found in the Penghu Islands, to express the artist’s complex feelings of attachment for his hometown and family. Using their wisdom of local materials, settlers who arrived in Penghu several hundred years ago gathered light and porous coral stones from the ocean to construct walls and houses to withstand the powerful winds that frequently lashed the islands. These structures still stand today, protecting descendants of those first ancestors from Penghu’s cold winds and burning sun. Arranged chronologically on the third floor of the museum, the exhibition charts the rich course of Chen’s career. The show calls to mind the small mounds of coral stones seen in Penghu. The irregularity of these stones reflects the ups and downs of family life in his hometown, and their network of pores suggests the interconnectedness of memories.
Chen began with photography, has employed old family photos and fragments of furniture, and actively explored the addition of different media in his work over the years. Through this exhibition the audience will observe how Chen has developed his art and the language of photography. Additionally, by presenting the trajectory of the artist’s career, the museum presents how photography, as an essential means of artistic expression, might employ multimedia, space and the surroundings as means of creative practice and exploration. The exhibition enriches the possible significance and uses of images, while extending important concepts in photography.
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展期 Date：2015/01/24－2015/04/26
地點 Place：台北市立美術館3樓展覽室
Taipei Fine Arts Museum 3F
(Photos courtesy TFAM)
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