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《金字塔與蛋》
Pyramids and Egg Axis
250X350cm
2007
布面油畫(huà)
題 目: “自行車(chē)，金字塔與蛋”—— O的旅程
藝術(shù)家：布萊恩?馬克法蘭 (美國(guó))
策展人：武東東
展 期 : 2008/03/16~2008/04/16
地 址: 渡那國(guó)際藝術(shù)中心
網(wǎng) 址：www.ferryart.com.cn
TITLE："Bicycles,Pyramids and Egg Axis" —a Circular Journey
ARTIST：Bryan McFarlane（American）
CURATOR: Wu Dongdong
TIME : 2008/03/16~2008/04/16
ADD: Ferry Art International Center
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藝術(shù)家自述
關(guān)于Bryan藝術(shù)展評(píng)論——美國(guó)波士頓國(guó)家黑人藝術(shù)家博物館館長(zhǎng)Edmund Barry Gaither
O的旅程藝術(shù)展——駐中國(guó)牙買(mǎi)加大使Wayne McCook
前言
不只是O
馬薩諸塞大學(xué)的教授布萊恩?馬克法蘭（Bryan Mcfarlane）先生堅(jiān)持通過(guò)視覺(jué)、嗅覺(jué)、觸覺(jué)和味覺(jué)等感官體驗(yàn)來(lái)獲得靈感，并非僅僅是通過(guò)書(shū)籍。他到處旅行，到訪過(guò)南美，歐洲，非洲，土耳其和伊朗。此次展覽的作品中豐富的元素源于他在中國(guó)的感受。
布萊恩?馬克法蘭先生的藝術(shù)色彩厚重。他在作品中有時(shí)會(huì)運(yùn)用一些夢(mèng)幻般的淺粉或鈷藍(lán)。有時(shí)會(huì)通過(guò)畫(huà)面的某些元素透露一些哲學(xué)層面的深層涵義。“圓”這一基本元素貫穿著此次展覽的始終，“圓”是一種循環(huán)，是輪回，也代表無(wú)限......
本次以“自行車(chē)、金字塔與蛋——O的旅程”為題的展覽大部分為布萊恩先生在中國(guó)旅行后的近作，很多幅作品中，我們都能看到圓形的物體，有些是以“炮彈”的形象出現(xiàn)的，比如《未爆炸的炮彈》；有些是以“蛋”的形式表現(xiàn)，比如《沸騰》，也有一些是以破碎的自行車(chē)輪胎展現(xiàn)，比如《自行車(chē)藍(lán)調(diào)》。
反復(fù)在諸多作品中重現(xiàn)的加能炮彈代表殖民地時(shí)期在思想與文化方面的入侵；無(wú)數(shù)的蛋代表著孕育，發(fā)展，不斷孵化的再生循環(huán)；自行車(chē)輪不斷旋轉(zhuǎn)，向前，發(fā)展，歷史不斷前進(jìn)......同時(shí)裝置藝術(shù)也與畫(huà)面的圓，金字塔有些異曲同工之妙。
布萊恩?馬克法蘭 （Bryan McFarlane）經(jīng)常在世界各地舉辦展覽，此次展覽是布萊恩先生首次來(lái)華展出。在2008年，布萊恩?馬克法蘭將通過(guò)他的藝術(shù)作品與中國(guó)文化進(jìn)行交流與聯(lián)接。
渡那國(guó)際藝術(shù)中心 策展人--武東東
MORE THAN CIRCLE
Mr. Bryan McFarlane is an associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He insist on finding inspirations through visual, smell, touch and taste and other sensory. He gets resources not only through books but also travelling. He had been visited South America, Europe, Africa, Turkey, and Iran etc. The recent works of him in this exhibition enrich the elements stemmed from his experience in China.
The paintings of Mr. Mcfarlane are rich in thick colour and strong brushstrokes. Sometimes we can see a little bit fantastic light pink or cobalt blue. And also, it reveals some deeper meanings in the fields of philosophical dimensions. Circles have always run through this exhibition: it refers to circulating, reincarnation and also infinity...
"Bicycles, Pyramids and Egg Axis--A Circular Journey" shows the latest works of Bryan. We can see many circular figures in the paintings. Sometimes they appear as canon balls, such as the paining "Unexploded", some of them are in the form of "eggs" in the painting "Boiling". The wheels of the bicycles in the "Bicycle Blues" are also displaying the circular figures.
Many works, we could see the circular objects, some of the "shells" of the image, such as "unexploded ordnance" Some of these are "egg" in the form of performance, such as "boiling," there are some as a broken bicycle tire display, such as "Bicycle Blues."
The canon balls appear time and time again in Bryan's paintings.They are the representative of the colonial era in the ideological and cultural aspects of the invasion. The countless eggs represent gestation, development and incubation of recycling. The wheels of bicycle refers to forward, development, and continually advance... The installation works are expressing the same idea as the paintings in different words
Bryan McFarlane usually holds exhibitions in the world .The present exhibition is the first solo-show for Bryan McFarlane. At 2008, he will carry on exchanges through his works with Chinese culture .
Curator of Ferry Art International Center--Wu Dongdong
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