台北日動畫廊隆重呈現國際知名藝術家賈奈娜 ‧ 查普於台灣舉辦的首次個人展覽「蒼藍天空下 描繪暗湧」。日動畫廊當代館自 2003 年開始與賈奈娜 ‧ 查普展開合作，在她二十多年來的藝術生涯中，賈奈娜 ‧ 查普持續透過攝影、錄像、繪畫和立體雕塑等，為現實風景創造嶄新的視覺想像。她的創作結合了精湛的技法與感性的思想，並藉由抽象的視覺語言，陳述豐富多元的女性形象、神秘迷人的海洋色調，以及多重有機的生物樣貌。此次在台北日動畫廊首次個展，邀請觀者透過她的系列新作穿透畫布，探索未知之域。

賈奈娜 ‧ 查普的繪畫創作常融合水、自然與人文等主題元素，並以一系列揉雜想像與現實的風景形象加以呈現。受到古老神話、自然更迭，以及海洋水域的神秘狀態所吸引，賈奈娜 ‧ 查普逐漸發展出由各種充滿明亮質地的幾何形態組成的抽象視覺語言。她作品中深具自我風格的構圖，不僅傳達出動態的感官經驗，那些有機多元的形象，以及筆觸揮灑所留下的記號，亦成為表露藝術家內在思想與情緒的關鍵符碼。

賈奈娜 ‧ 查普繪細緻入微的繪畫創作，是她對自然世界各種生長、汰換與轉變的視覺隱喻。這些畫作的特殊之處，在於其使用了水彩、酪蛋白顏料、色鉛筆及粉彩等多種媒材。藝術家透過精巧而細膩的手法，不厭其煩地將這些材料進行堆疊，以囊括浩瀚自然所傳遞的豐富訊息。賈奈娜 ‧ 查普的作品同時兼有一股散播於畫布各處的慵懶隨興與柔美詩意，以及一套層層堆疊、精準計算以整合視覺構圖的符號系統。如此微妙的平衡狀態正如自然本身，也讓賈奈娜 ‧ 查普的畫作，具有獨特而深厚的內在張力。台北日動畫廊誠摯邀請您一起進入藝術家在畫布上孕育的靜止時空—一處無論是混亂、痛苦還是喜悅之情，皆得以被完全展開的自由之地。


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賈奈娜 ‧ 查普， 1973 年出生於德國慕尼黑。於德國漢堡美術學院取得學士學位，並於美國紐約視覺藝術學院取得碩士學位，現生活、工作於紐約。在近二十餘年的創作生涯當中，查普的創作橫跨繪畫、紙上作品、攝影、錄像和雕塑等不同媒材。重要個展發表於紐約 Sean Kelly（2018）；日動畫廊東京當代館（2016）；美國亞利桑那州圖森市當代美術館（2014）；愛爾蘭都柏林現代藝術博物館（2008）；美國聖路易市藝術博物館（2006）等。重要群展作品發表於愛爾蘭科克 Lewis Glucksman Gallery（2018）；台北日動畫廊（2017），倫敦白教堂畫廊（2017）；奧地利維也納提森波那米薩當代美術館（2017）；巴西里約熱內盧文化中心（2017）；法國SHED藝術中心（2016）；日本金澤21世紀當代美術館（201６）；巴西大竹富江研究所（2016）；美國紐約藝術與建築商店（2016）；美國華盛頓國立女性藝術博物館（2015）；美國紐約普拉特曼哈頓藝廊（2015）；巴西聖保羅穴屋城市博物館（2014）；荷蘭蒂爾堡卡德藝術廳（2014）；巴西聖保羅馬塔拉佐（2014）；丹麥奈斯特韋茲美術館（2014）；巴西美景市銀行文化中心（2013）；美國麻薩諸塞州波士頓美術館（2013）；以及台北當代藝術館 (2013)等。

賈奈娜・查普的作品廣泛展出於世界各地，作品典藏於多間著名公共收藏機構，如法國巴黎龐畢度中心，西班牙馬德里索菲婭王后國家藝術中心博物館，哈佛藝術博物館，巴西里約熱內盧現代藝術博物館，瑞典斯德哥爾摩當代美術館，維也納提森波那米薩當代美術館，以及紐約古根漢美術館博物館等。賈奈娜的公共委託創作計畫散佈於美國紐約、巴西聖保羅、美國佛羅里達州邁阿密海灘及丹麥霍爾拜克等。

賈奈娜・查普：蒼藍天空下 描繪暗湧
Janaina Tschäpe : Mapping the Undertow Under a Pale Blue Sky

展覽日期 ｜2019. 01. 19 - 2019. 03. 09
開幕酒會 ｜2019. 01. 19 19:00 - 21:00（藝術家將參與開幕活動）

Janaina Tschäpe : Mapping the Undertow Under a Pale Blue Sky
Exhibiting Dates｜2019. 01. 19 - 2019. 03. 09
Opening Reception｜2019. 01. 19 19:00-21:00（the artist will be present）

galerie nichido Taipei proudly presents Mapping the Undertow Under a Pale Blue Sky, the first solo exhibition in Taiwan of renowned artist Janaina Tschäpe. nichido contemporary art has been collaborating with Janaina Tschäpe since 2003. Throughout her twenty-plus year career, Janaina Tschäpe has continued to explore, through multiple mediums, amorphous landscapes and their abundant luscious properties. Her artistry combines exquisite techniques with sensual thoughts; by using abstract visual languages, she expresses a flourishing creativity attune to earthly landscapes, ethereal female silhouettes as well as aqueous tones and biological forms. For her first solo exhibition at galerie nichido Taipei, the artist brings a series of new paintings that invites us to penetrate the existing canvases and explore the unknown sceneries created by the artist .

In her practice, Tschäpe often incorporates themes of aquatic, plant and human life to suggest dreamlike, abstract landscapes that blur perceptions of illusion and reality. Referencing interests in myth, morphology and the mysteries of aquatic states, she has developed a distinctive language of abstraction in which organic forms are imbued with a remarkable quality of luminosity. Her distinctive compositions convey a sensation of movement, their biomorphic shapes and gestural marks functioning as emotive signifiers of her interior thoughts.

Her carefully nuanced canvases and drawings include imagery evocative of the natural world suggesting growth, transition and metamorphosis. Tschäpe’s paintings in particular contain innumerable layers of information accrued through the meticulous application of media including watercolor, casein, colored pencil and pastel. There exists in her work the balance between the loose, luscious forms that pervade the canvas, and the precise systems of markings that often overlay and unify these compositions. This perfect balance is like nature itself, which is also why we could always feel a dynamic tension within Janaina Tschäpe’s powerful works. galerie nichido Taipei sincerely invites you to enter this stasis space skillfully created by the artist. An arena where chaos, pain and joy could be freely unfold.


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Janaina Tschäpe was born in Munich, Germany in 1973. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg and her Master in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Janaina Tschäpe currently lives and works in New York. Throughout her twenty-plus year career, Tschäpe’s multidisciplinary body of work has encompassed painting, drawing, photography, video and sculpture. Important solo exhibitions have been presented at Sean Kelly, New York (2018); Nichido Contermporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona (2014); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2008), and the Contemporary Museum of Art, St Louis (2006). Important group exhibitions have been exhibited at venues including The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2018); Nichido Contermporary Art, Taiwan (2017); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017); TBA21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria (2017); CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2017); SHED - Centre D’Art Contemporain de Normandie, France (2016); 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2016); Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2016); Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2016); National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (2015); Pratt Manhattan Gallery (2015); OCA Museu da Cidade, São Paulo (2014); Kunsthal KAdE, Netherlands(2014); Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil (2014); Ronnebaeksholm, Denmark (2014); Cultural Centro Banco do Brasil in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2013); Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts (2013); and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2013).

Her work can be found in important public collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. She has completed public commissions in New York City; Miami Beach, Florida; São Paulo, Brazil; and Holbæk, Denmark.