谷口 恵玲菜
Elena TANIGUCHI
關於
她将自己独创的人物形象"chibi-chan"融入到各种风格的绘画中，而且不打草稿、现场手绘完成作品的作风使她在现场绘画和墙面艺术领域一跃成名，拓展了事业平台。其代表作《乘浪的小家伙》是向日本美术界最著名的浮世绘画家之一葛饰北斋的富岳三十六景致敬。作品中描绘的小动物是她初中时在笔记本边缘涂鸦时画的原创角色"chibi-chan"。由于这些小动物是在青春期特有的懵懂状态下偶然诞生的，因此代表了一种心灵的依托。与惠玲菜共同走过人生之路的Chibi-chan是她的另一个自我，也象征着 "引导重生，迈向焕然一新、光彩夺目的人生"。令人联想到日本动漫文化的笔触和厚重的轮廓清晰地展现了人物的个体存在，同时也让人联想起人类紧密相连的生存状态。北斋的绘画方法以清澈的水彩和独特的构图为特色，而哑光、硬质丙烯水粉的鲜艳色彩则使其焕然一新，将古老的传统与当代流行艺术融为一体，呈现出一种新颖、柔和的造型美。
Elena has been increasingly expanding her opportunities on art practices by live-painting and wall painting, adopting the style of free-handing without drafts introducing her original character "chibi-chan" in various sets of styles.
Her recent representative work "Surfing Ochibi" which placed as a tribute to Hokusai Katsushika's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)" is a great example of explaining her own unique style of adorable characters and enchanting colors mixed with Hokusai's traditional techniques.
Those little creatures in her works are called "Chibi-chan," the very original characters she drew as doodles on the corner of her notebooks back in junior high school. They came in to her life as her emotional supporters without any notice and stayed by her side ever since even when she was going through her ups and downs as a teenager. "Chibi-chan" then became as an idea of symbol for the guidance for rebirth into a whole new radiant life as they shared their lives with her.
The brush strokes and thick outlines reminisce the techniques of Japanese anime and manga. It verifies the existence of each character and it associate with the enriched connections on human relationships at the same time. Prolonging Hokusai's painting method on watercolors and unique compositions, she introduces her works with an alternation use of vivid colors of matte and hard acrylic gouache, it harmonizes the good old tradition and modern pop art in a novel and a supple formative beauty.