bianca Lei sio chong ____ 李少莊: painting is painting is painting is painting is …space ___

series__系列作品:(7) painting is painting is painting is painting is …?____畫是畫是畫是畫是… ?

2011
installation (acrylic on canvas and wood frames) / 裝置作品 (布本壓克力和木框)

The series “Painting is painting is painting is painting is…?” has been ongoing since 2006. The work in this exhibition is the sixth in this series. Beginning with the contemplation of the “medium” – painting - I have explored the boundaries between media, between image carrier (canvas) and image, between artwork and exhibition place. Media are the starting point of my work. The standard function of the materials of traditional media has been transformed, presenting a paradoxical relationship between media and materials. There is also a reciprocal switching between media. From the appearance and the process of interaction between media, I am trying to explore the definition of the artworks, materials and media, and the connection between them. The expressive function of media will not be emphasized, but the boundaries of media themselves will be blurred, going further into examining the logic of the creation of artworks. These ambiguous relationships and phenomena will provide an environmental experience to promote profound introspection.

“Painting is painting is painting is painting is…space” is a sculptural installation comprising 13 “white” paintings. A shallow and narrow “exhibition space” is simulated using one point perspective (is the traditional method to create 3D space on a flat surface.), so the painting is painting, is wall, is floor and ceiling. The front view of the work appears to be a flat visual image, but the whole structure forms a sculptural installation. With the “white simulated space” installed in a white exhibition site there is an extending mutuality between artwork and exhibition place. The images on the 13 paintings are produced by dismantling, tearing and cutting the texture of canvas, with the standard function of the canvas destroyed and transformed. Canvas is no longer the image carrier; it becomes the main visual elements to create the image. It is not only showing the front of “painting” but also the back which is part of the creation. The canvas with multiple layers expands a flat painting to a tactile surface with actual depth.

由2006年開始創作「畫是畫是畫是畫是…?」系列，這次參展的作品是這一系列的第六個。由對繪畫這一「媒體」的反思，進而探討媒體之間、圖像載體（畫布）和圖像之間、作品和展場之間的界限。由媒體切入，改變傳統媒體所使用的物料的本位功能，呈現媒體和材料之間似是如非的關係和媒體間互為轉換的觀念。由媒體相互作用的現象和過程，嘗試探索藝術作品、物料和媒體的定義，甚至，它們之間的關聯。著重的不是媒體的表現形式，而是模糊媒體自身的界限，進一步反思藝術創造的邏輯。這些曖昧的關係和現象也希望提供一個值得深思的環境經驗。

《畫是畫是畫是畫是空間》是一座由十三幅「白色」繪畫組成的雕塑裝置，使用繪畫一點透視(是一種在平面表達三維空間的方法。)的手法模擬一個淺窄的「展示空間」，畫是畫、是牆、是地面也是天花板。作品的正面形成一個看似平面的視覺畫面，但其整體又建構成一個雕塑裝置。當這個「模擬的白色空間」放置在真實的白色展場展示時，是一種作品和展場之間互相延伸的概念。十三幅繪畫的圖像是由對畫布紋理進行拆解、撕裂和切割後所構成的。畫布的本位功能被破壞和被轉換，不再是圖像的載體，更成為構成圖像的主要視覺元素。不只是「畫」的前面，「畫」的後面同樣也是創作的部份。而重重疊疊的畫布也將平面的繪畫向可觸摸的真實深度和層次擴展。