2022台北當代藝術博覽會
TAIPEI DANGDAI ART & IDEAS

Artist｜陳漢聲 Chen Han Sheng
Duration｜May 20–22, 2022
VIP Preview｜May 19, 2022 2PM–5PM
Booth｜S02 紅野畫廊 Powen Gallery
Venue｜台北世貿1館 Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1

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百年不時—陳漢聲個展
Chen Han Sheng: From view to landscape all at once

2022年第三屆台北當代藝術博覽會，紅野畫廊Powen Gallery將於微型單元帶來藝術家陳漢聲個展「百年不時」。鄉愁與記憶中的風景，一直是陳漢聲創作所關注題材，「百年不時」是陳漢聲暌違三年繼2019年「牆隔神農」，以作品《百年不時—金煌、烏鶖、林菝仔》為名，所推出的新系列作品展。「不時」在否定式的構句裡，「時間」的意義充滿變動，「不時」有時時刻刻的意思，有著忽然、預料之外的狀態，或者，直指著「不合時」與「不適時」；「百年不時」呼應著陳漢聲從「農」出發，在面對自然環境時，那些關乎亙古一瞬的感受與遙想。

《百年不時—金煌、烏鶖、林菝仔》以金煌芒果和林菝仔花（芭樂花）為前景主角，並置了理想中的作物形態與現實的生態描摹，在烏鶖（大卷尾）、蜜蜂、皇蛾與粉蝶等生物的環繞中，結合搭乘高鐵時，遠眺高雄石化工業區時的遠景，是陳漢聲目前創作生涯中，尺幅最大的平面裝置。閬縫（làng-phāng）為台語，有抽空、趁隙、空出時間的意涵，「閬縫風景」系列以窗櫺為結構主體，要應時借物的視金煌與林菝仔花為肖像，透過窗與屏風與自然對望，便是一個人可以「閬縫」的狀態。「清供透景」與「發穎清供」系列，延伸自多寶格與供盤的樣式，清供意指清雅的供品，可謂常民生活中，富含儀式感的靜物，陳漢聲試圖結合傳統工藝與動力裝置，以金煌、林菝仔、蜜棗、五指茄、仙桃與佛手柑共六種作物為主題，其中，藉五指茄、仙桃與佛手柑等歲時祭儀的兒時記憶，重探今日精神性、物質性與現代性的消長關係。

有別於過往以身處異鄉，以記憶中的風景為對象，陳漢聲此次個展，即使藏不住對於純粹、理想自然的嚮往，也要努力地，面對那些視不可逆的現代化進程，為自然日常的矛盾心理。「百年不時」一展將每個當下美好與不美好，都視為值得珍藏保存的過去，當中隱含著當代農人，遭逢花期紊亂、花果同株、蜂群減少等殘酷現實的無語心聲，也隱含著一個農家子弟，透過藝術創作表達對於永續環境的純粹祈願。

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Chen Han Sheng: From view to landscape all at once

TAIPEI DANGDAI ART & IDEAS

Duration｜May 20–22, 2022
VIP Preview｜May 19, 2022 2PM–5PM
Booth｜S02 Powen Gallery
Venue｜Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1

In the 3rd Taipei Dangdai in 2022, Powen Gallery will present the solo exhibition "From View to Landscape All at Once" by artist Chen Han Sheng. Reminiscence and scenes from memories have always been the subject focus of Chen Han Sheng's creations. Three years after creating "After the Explosion", Chen Han Sheng began a new series under the name of "From View to Landscape All at Once - Jinhuang, Black Drongo, Guava". "Time" represents the element of change, the connotation of a sudden, unexpected state, or "untimeliness". "From View to Landscape All at Once" echoes Chen Han Sheng's feelings and distant thoughts about eternity when facing the natural environment from the point of view of ‘agriculture’.

"From View to Landscape All at Once - Jinhuang, Black Drongo, Guava" takes Jinhuang mangos and Guava flowers as the foreground protagonists, surrounded by creatures such as the black drongo, bee, the Atlas moth, and the striped albatross butterfly, embedding crops' ideal forms and realistic ecological illustration, against the backdrop of a distant view of the Kaohsiung Petrochemical Industrial Park that can be seen when taking the high-speed rail. This is the largest two-dimensional installation in Chen Han Sheng's creative career to date. Làng-phāng is a Taiwanese Hokkien term, which means to take time out, make use of fragmented time, or take a break. The “Làng-phāng Landscape” series take the window lattice as its main structure, combined with portraits of Jinhuang mangos and guava flowers. When one meets with nature through windows and folding screens, this creates a state of làng-phāng. The "Clear Offerings View" and "Fa Ying Clear Offerings" series extend into the styles of curio cabinets and religious offering trays. “Clear Offerings” refer to elegant objects for offerings, which can be described as still images with a sense of ritual in ordinary people's lives. Chen Han Sheng tried to combine traditional craftsmanship with mobile installations to present a “Six-Crop” (Jinhuang mango, guava, jujubes, nipplefruit, peach, and bergamot) theme. Chen re-examines the relationship between today's spirituality, materiality, and modernity through the childhood memories in which nipplefruit, peach, and bergamot were related to year-end worship ceremonies.

Different from his past works, which have used scenes from memory as themes, this solo exhibition is characterized by Chen Han Sheng’s feelings of ambivalence, torn between his yearning for the ideal form of nature and efforts to accept the irreversible progress of modernization. The "From View to Landscape All at Once" exhibition treats every moment, good or bad, as a memory worthy of cherishing and preserving. It conveys the silent voices of contemporary farmers who encounter cruel realities such as disordered flowering, abnormally early fruiting, and collapsing bee populations. The exhibition also expresses his simple wish, as someone who comes from an agricultural family, for a sustainable environment through artistic creation.

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