展期｜2021.01.16–2021.02.06
地點｜耿畫廊 (台北市內湖區瑞光路548巷15號3樓)
貴賓預展｜2021.01.06 (六) 4:30 p.m.
歲末，耿畫廊將於3樓貴賓空間舉辦「游弋自如：蘇笑柏新作選」，帶來蘇笑柏2019年末至2020年全新創作系列。邀請各位一同探索蘇笑柏於全球防疫風雨期間的創作探索，於畫面滿是歲月寂趣的幽玄韻味與清寂潤澤的色調中，走入藝術家游弋自如的心識漫游。

雋刻著東方歷史及美學痕跡的傳統媒材大漆，透過當代抽象繪畫語彙的表現轉譯，將傳統工藝與當代藝術的對話轉陳為跨文化的當代經典──蘇笑柏以應和東方侘寂美學的材質表現，在堆疊透顯時光刻痕的層次肌理同時，讓作品呈現一種侵入般的雕塑感；富歷史感的古典藝術媒材經當代技法轉譯，令大漆自身流露的視覺質感透出溫潤的光韻，讓繪畫回歸最原初的狀態與光影的互動關係。一直以來，蘇笑柏的作品總能透過視覺語言和藝術語彙的交融，體現哲學與人類日常的普世議題，讓他的藝術得以體現其存在的本身，而非描繪其他物件。

而相較於一貫的溫潤、沉穩質地，蘇笑柏2020年的新作系列，自視覺上的明亮用色與薄透的流動光感，便予人一種沁人的清新氣息；作品胚體轉而成為輕薄的塑形，令彷彿懸浮於牆面的輕盈量體，與空間對話出多層次的空間閱讀；而一層層漆料經過「覆蓋」、「油洗」所堆疊出的迷人肌理，在在應和著蘇笑柏對於全球疫情壟罩下沉重氛圍的反動──在藝術所體現出的不同維度中，所創造那游弋自如的繪畫風景。

To Gallivant: The Paintings of Su Xiaobai
Exhibition Dates｜01.16.2021–02.06.2021
Venue｜Tina Keng Gallery (3F, No. 15, Ln. 548, Ruiguang Rd., Neihu Dist., Taipei, Taiwan 114)
Vernissage｜01.16.2021 (Sat.) 4:30
The Tina Keng Gallery is pleased to present To Gallivant: Latest Works of Su Xiaobai, a project that highlights the artist’s new body of work made during the end of 2019 and 2020. Under the siege of a global pandemic, the artist has been compelled to turn inward in his isolation in search of equilibrium in his art making. The intangible vestiges of time engrained with solitude and mystery, awash in crisp, pellucid hues, cloister in the works of Su Xiaobai that attest the artist’s meditative saunter.

In Su Xiaobai’s hand, lacquer — a thousand-year-old plant material and a symbol of Eastern culture — embodies the concept of existence, posing a philosophical discourse on our daily life through the artist’s poetic transformation. To rediscover the duality between art and object, and renew his perspective towards the traditional culture of his ancestry, Su first began experimenting lacquer on linen, bricks, sackcloth, clay, vine, and wood as a substitute for oil on canvas. The artist paints layers of vibrantly colored lacquer in a structural and balanced composition, rendering a three-dimensional momentum. The seemingly arbitrary, yet meticulously deliberate handling of visual forms reveals the artist’s pursuit of aesthetics and his personal sense of reinvention.

Shifting away from his usual palette of warm and muted tones, Su’s 2020 series is suffused with a crispness accentuated by the bright and light colors that dominate his works. The substrate of his work is transformed into a slender version of its predecessor, allowing the work of svelteness, seemingly suspended on the wall, to engage in a quiet dialogue with the space it occupies. The layers of lacquer coalesce into a textured grace rendered by the repeated act of overlaying and washing away the centuries-old medium. The textured grace reverberates with a rebellious spirit that has come to define Su Xiaobai’s practice in the tumultuous year — an urge to gallivant in a realm manifested through the sheer force of artistic creation.