非池中藝術網

劉哲榮，1978年生於台灣台中。其以敏銳的觀察力與豐富的想像力，將作品視為有機生命體，採取寓言體方式，賦予戲劇式的視覺張力，透過建構在人類思維下的動物觀點，闡述人類所生存的環境，嚴肅中卻不失幽默風趣。以後現代主義著重的多元視角與觀點切入物件本質，探求主客體的差異以及多元文化包容性的無限可能，並與歷史、個人經驗不斷交錯，將看似不相關的物件並置，企圖製造矛盾點來反映社會現狀，關注我們所生活的環境。透過不斷審視，以逆向思考方式進行由內而外的反思，希望將負面情緒與疏離感轉化昇華，在解讀的過程中找尋和諧共處的正向力量。

LIU Je-Rong, who was born in Taiwan in 1978, is an emerging young artist. He takes his sculptures as an organism with delicate observation and wide imagination. His works endowed with dramatic tension in fable style represent the living environment through animals’ viewpoint but constructed under thoughts of humankind, found serious yet humorous. He explores subject and object diversity and infinite possibility of tolerance under multiculturalism in a way of post-modernism concerned to look into substance from various angles and viewpoints interacting with history and personal experience. Attempting to make contradiction by placing items together as if unrelated to reflect social reality and pay close attention to our living environment. When negative emotions and alienation sublimated through unceasing and reverse introspection, positive power will bring harmonious coexistence in the process of understanding.

1978 生於台灣台中

2007 大葉大學造形藝術系雕塑組學士，台灣彰化

2011 大葉大學設計暨藝術學院碩士，台灣彰化

2011 523青墩國際雕塑創作營，海安523文化產業主題公園，中國江蘇

2012 第十二屆駐站藝術家，二十號倉庫，台灣台中

2013 第十三屆駐站藝術家，二十號倉庫，台灣台中

個展

2016 「看不見的倆個自己」，大河美術，台灣苗栗

2016 「歡迎光臨My Home」，黑白切藝文空間，台灣台中

2015 「寓言 動物園」，新竹市立動物園，台灣新竹

2014 「城市動物園」，金典綠園道，台灣台中

2014 「錯置的衍生狀態」，弘光科技大學藝術中心，台灣台中

2014 「假如，我是真的!?」，亞米藝術，台灣台中

2013 「Gone Wild解放」，台北國際當代藝術博覽會，喜來登大飯店，台灣台北；

2013 台中藝術博覽會，金典酒店，台灣台中；高雄藝術博覽會，翰品酒店，台灣高雄

2013 「荒謬劇」，台北紅館，華山1914文創園區，台灣台北

2012 「環境寓言」蕭北辰、劉哲榮雙個展，新思惟人文空間，台灣高雄

2011 「城市寓言」，中友時尚藝廊，台灣台中

2010 「視點」王鼎超＋劉哲榮雙個展，麗品藝術，台灣台北

2010 「寓言‧動物園」，金車文藝中心，台灣台北

2010 「GEISAI TAIWAN#2」，華山1914文創園區，台灣台北

2009 「交錯在個體與動物之間」，台中市文化局動力空間，台灣台中

2006 「解剖」，員林立庫鐵路穀倉，台灣彰化

聯展

2016

「臆想」青年藝術家聯展，現代畫廊，台灣台中

「KUSO計畫」台灣當代藝術展，唐納賓姆藝術博物館，內華達拉斯維加斯大學，美國拉斯維加斯

2015

「生物公寓2－拓殖」，台灣大學動物博物館，台灣台北

「台北國際玩具創作大展」，華山1914文創園區，台灣台北

「我和我的動物朋友」，新光三越左營店，台灣高雄

2014

「上新漆的攪拌機」兩岸青年藝術家作品交流展，彰化師範大學美術館，台灣彰化

「合縱連橫」兩岸四地雕塑家跨海交流，淡水古蹟博物館，台灣新北

2013

「綠圈圈」夏日藝術季，勤美誠品綠園道、勤美術館、金典綠園道，台灣台中

「虛實化境」中青輩當代藝術展，現代畫廊，台灣台中

「軌跡魅影」鐵道藝術六站聯展，台中文化創意產業園區，台灣台中

「石化世代 2013材質物語－塑膠」，朱銘美術館，台灣新北

「±30°」破視徒創作聯展，FreeS福利社，台灣台北

2012

「山‧意」大河美術三義開幕展，大河美術，台灣苗栗

「香港當代藝術博覽會」，柏寧酒店，香港

「第十一屆視盟台灣藝術家博覽會」，台中文化創意產業園區，台灣台中；松山文創園區，台灣台北

「樂園道：串門子計畫」，勤美術館，台灣台中

「北京國際藝術博覽會」，中國國際貿易中心，中國北京

2011

「BORN! BOOM!」新銳藝術聯展，誠品CMP Block，台灣台中

「雕刻五、七、五」國際藝術大學交流展，關渡美術館，台灣台北

「書藝‧美篆」草悟道‧對稱‧藝術聯展，草悟道，台灣台中

「第十屆視盟台灣藝術家博覽會」，剝皮寮歷史街區，台灣台北； 駁二藝術特區，台灣高雄

「523青墩國際交流展」，海安523文化產業主題公園，中國江蘇

2010

「喜相逢」福興國際雙年展，福興穀倉，台灣彰化

「破視徒」劉哲榮+黃耀鋅+王鼎超 創作聯展，視盟藝術空間，台灣台北

2009 「2009 GEISAI TAIWAN」，華山1914文創園區，台灣台北

2008 「塑命‧論」，福興穀倉，台灣彰化

得獎

2009 「第十四屆大墩美展」大墩獎暨雕塑類第一名，台中市文化局，台灣台中

2008 「台灣美術新貌展」立體創作入選，台中港區藝術中心，台灣台中

2006 「第六十屆全省美展」雕塑組優選，國父紀念館，台灣台北；台中市文化局，台灣台中；高雄市文化局，台灣高雄

典藏

2014

金典綠園道，台灣台中

白兔中國當代藝術美術館，澳洲雪梨

2011 海安523文化產業主題公園，中國江蘇

2009

景薰樓藝廊，台灣台北

台中市文化局，台灣台中

Interweaving Between Individuals and Animals

To Je-rong Liu, the creation of art is an inner approach to dialectical thought and reflection. However, a greater meaning lies in the exploration of interweaving phenomena and futuristic prospects amidst personal experiences and social environments. Introspective methods of self-reflection have had a great influence on his art. While exploring personal experiences, he is also searching for the next possibility, while extending a point of balance between an individual and their environment. Though external behavior and internal perspectives gradually transform along with changes in time and space and an accumulation of personal experiences, they are still included within the purview of environment. The transformations of an individual are often affected by changes in the external environment. As a result, cutting in as an individual into the environment has become a standard part of his creative method. This is only due to his belief that the individual does not only reflect an individual, but also simultaneously incorporates an environment’s interweaving appearance and extension of time.

Under the influence of a very rebellious nature, he adopts a reverse method of thought for his creative model, while in the process of contemplating his works. He believes that if we could predict negative situations, then we would most certainly be able to bring about a positive result. By continuously exploring the mutual influence between the environment and the individual, he further deconstructs various aspects of problems. In the alternating exchange between positive and negative, a final appearance to his works is achieved.

The use of clay as a creative media has become increasingly rare in the art of today. He attempts to find a new rendering technique from traditional sculpture to better express the environment in which we reside, while simultaneously expanding possibilities and a sense of relevance for the general public to participate. Today, sculpture works that feature a relevant background that echoes the times have already become an important subject. To transform the cold sensations that traditional sculpture tends to bring to people, he selects biological forms for his presentation, while viewing these organisms in his works as organic lifeforms. Drawing upon the KUSO concept for his forms, he creates points of contradiction to satirize certain social phenomena. At the same time, he merges concepts of composite imagery into his sculpture, so that new ideas may be integrated and generated in aspects regarding people and animals. In this way, a deeper, inherent meaning behind ethnicity can be even further explored.

This series of works takes the perspective of animals to view human society. However, those animal perspectives are those in which he undertook through a human method of thought. Through an allegorical theater performance, he invokes a whimsical and rough sense of humor. His works make use of contradictions to satirize the current conditions of modern society. Through this series of works, he also examines the interchangeability of his own values and perspectives as a human being. Cutting into the theme through a subjective self-image and objective animal characters, he explores the correlation between both. And, with the differences and similarities between subjectivity and objectivity, he once again deconstructs the order, behavior patterns, and emotional structuring between man and object.