展覽 ｜找一個休息的地方
展期｜2019年5月3日~6月30日
藝術家｜卡斯帕爾・波恩

Exhibition｜Looking For A Place To Sleep
Duration｜May 3 - June 30, 2019
Artist｜Kaspar Bonnén
「卡斯帕爾·波恩描繪空間」，一句簡潔有力的話語， 成為直指藝術家作品內涵的精確導引。1990年代中期以來，藝術家兼作家卡斯帕爾·波恩透過他的繪畫、雕塑、攝影等視覺藝術創作與詩歌作品，來表達其對自身與空間之間的關注。就是基於這樣的藝術實踐，讓波恩成為1990年代丹麥繪畫復興中的指標人物。

當波恩描繪記憶中的空間時，與此同時也在描繪著其經驗，即當記憶發生時對該空間的感知。想要進入這些空間需要一些時間；無論畫作是帶著平滑而輕薄的筆觸，還是誇張式的厚重塗抹，都使人們無法立即解讀這些空間。這不僅僅是因為波恩早已捨棄了嚴謹空間結構裡的傳統中心視角，也因為畫作的背景和前景時常重疊，使其間的區別如厚塗畫一般曖昧不明、難以辨析。乍看起來，它們幾乎是全然抽象的，就像閃爍的色彩、如同分割的圖案而非物件。然而當我們凝視許久，他所描繪的空間便逐漸拉出深度，各個物體也開始呈現出其形狀。因此，觀察波恩的畫作需要時間，也正基於這種對畫作立即可讀性的抗拒，時間與時間的流逝彷彿都被繪製於其中。或許也可以說，波恩並不把空間畫成一個具體或可衡量的地方，而是具有時間性的物質體驗；這些得以被感知、生活、經驗、記憶和重訪的空間、與其間的置換交錯，都被紀錄在波恩的畫作中。

當我們看波恩的作品時，我們看到的不僅是藝術家的家，也不是僅作為物理空間的客廳，它同時也是一個居住空間。在這一層面，他的作品已然不止於即時性和親密性，更是日常生活裡的平凡與詩意。此外，它們也關係著觀察者的感知，挑戰了從多維表面到三維空間的轉換；更關乎著如何傳達身體經驗，以及如何將回憶於視覺上呈現。這一切，都使得波恩那些雖以自己為參照的畫作不再只是緊扣自身、不會太過個人而無顧於他者，而是遠遠超越了個人。

卡斯帕爾·波恩個展《找一個休息的地方》將於五月三日 下午七點十五分開幕，路由藝術在此邀請各位一同共襄盛舉！

Kaspar Bonnén paints spaces. That could be the introductory statement; brief, but precise and to the point. For since the middle of the 1990s, the visual artist and writer Kaspar Bonnén has concerned himself with spaces, both in his poetry and, in particular, in his visual art, which besides painting also includes sculpture and photography. It is against the background of this artistic practice that Bonnén now stands as one of the most significant figures in the renewal of Danish painting which took place in the 1990s.

When Bonnén paints the remembered space, he also paints that which is experienced, the sensory perception of the space in which the remembered occurs. Entering them takes time, for whether the painting is the smooth type with the paint added in thin layers, or the more pastose variety, dominated by the exaggerated tactility of the brushstrokes, neither the space nor the perspective is immediately readable. And this is not just because Bonnén has long since abandoned the classic central perspective with its stringent spatial constructions, but also because the background and the foreground of the pictures often overlap; indeed, the distinction sometimes dissolves, as in the pastose paintings. It is at any rate difficult to determine what lies in the background and in the foreground of the pictures. At first glance they can thus seem almost entirely abstract, like shimmering colours – more of a motif in dissolution than creation. When you have gazed for a sufficiently long time, however, the spaces portrayed acquire depth, and the individual objects take on shape and form. Observing Bonnén's paintings thus takes time. Indeed, it almost seems as though time and the passage of time are painted into the paintings, inasmuch as they resist immediate readability. One is thus tempted to claim that Bonnén does not portray a space as a concrete or measurable place, but rather as a chronological and bodily experience. Hence the plurality, and hence the many spaces–because these are spaces as they are both sensed, lived, experienced, remembered and revisited; because these, and the displacements between them, are what he paints.

When we regard Bonnén's work, we are not merely in the artist's home; not just in the living-room as a physical space, but also as a lived space: the living-room as condition. In this respect his works are not just about the immediate and intimate, about the banal poetic aspects of the daily routine. They are also about the observer's perceptions, and about the fundamental challenge that lies in turning a multidimensional surface into a three-dimensional space. About how to communicate a bodily experience, and how to give visual form to a recollection. All of which extends beyond the personal context and ensures that his painting, despite the private references, is never hermetically closed in upon itself, never so personal that it does not also concern you as a person. In this sense, while he is painting his own private spaces, he is also painting yours.

The opening of Kaspar Bonnén solo exhibition "Looking For A Place To Sleep" will be held on May 3 (Fri.) 7:15 P.M. We sincerely invite you to come and enjoy a wonderful night with us!

｜文章改編自「空間中的空間」–Kaspar Bonnén的繪畫方法, Camilla Jalving, 2006