【毅象無邊─李柏毅個展】

Perseverance – No Limitation : Solo Exhibition of Leland Lee

 

展覽時間 Date：2016/05/07-2016/06/12

展覽地點 Venue：台北當代藝術館 MOCA Studio

門票 Admission：免費 Free

參展藝術家 Artists：李柏毅 Leland Lee

 

 

台北當代藝術館的實驗展場，特訂於今年母親節檔次開幕的「毅象無邊」展，也是李柏毅新作系列國際巡迴展的首站。本展的策劃，旨在反映當代藝術界回歸主體的省思，呈現一種植根於個體生活和自然初心的藝術視野，提出一種有別於世俗或世故的價值觀點，從中揭提出從個人專注的美感創造，到社會導向的美學傳達之間，一些可能的思考方向和値得參考的實踐模式。

 

MOCA Studio presents Perseverance – No Limitation: Solo Exhibition of Leland Lee shortly before this year’s Mother’s Day. It is the starting point for the international touring exhibition of Leland Lee’s new works. The planning of this exhibition aims to reflect how the contemporary art field has returned to a contemplation on the core subject and represented an artistic vision deeply rooted in one’s individual life and original intention. Through proposing refreshing values different from a secular, worldly perspective, the exhibition reveals a possible, noteworthy way of thinking and practice from concentrating on the creation of personal aesthetics to its communication to the society. 

 

 

本展期許的是，透過李柏毅純真而燦爛的創作，為逐日混亂的世界注入美感及和平的意象，為普世人類的痛苦帶來抒解和快樂的力量。李柏毅的創作，自在地結合了豐富的生活體驗和無邊的心靈想像，從混亂複雜的現實世界中轉化出具有個人獨特風格的視覺圖像和色彩饗宴；本次展覽，除了首次公開李柏毅挑戰自我的長卷繪畫新作系列，某些作品也特意結合了數位互動機制，希望將現場作品的觀賞閲讀，從靜態、平面和已完成，延伸或還原到動態、空間和進行中的另一種感知經驗。

 

It is hoped that the innocence and brilliance of Lee’s work can imbue the disorderly world with a sense of beauty and peaceful images and provide comforting and cheering power to alleviate the suffering of the world. Lee’s work combines rich life experiences and boundless imagination in a carefree manner, transforming the chaotic, complex reality into colorful visual representations with a distinctive style. In addition to showcasing Lee’s first attempt in making a long-scroll painting series, some of the works in the exhibition also incorporate digital interactive mechanism. This approach reconfigures the reading of the still, two-dimensional, finished works into a dynamic, spatial, and on-going perceptive experience. 

 

 

「毅象無邊」展的語境根源，是當下和切身的日常現實，但李柏毅透過原真自然的創作，一次又一次帶引我們平心靜氣而樂觀地，去重新面對當代文明進展所帶來的種種社會及文化議題。他筆下的街景、人物與動物....等，大膽而不做作地呈現為橘紅、紅、翠綠、鮮黃、紫、寶藍等鮮豔的色面組合，偶而加上一些金漆或銀粉，以相當接近彩虹光譜的色彩演出， 配合流利自信的黑色缐條造型，從眾人眼中混沌汚濁的現實中，繪寫出了風和日麗、平和抒情的另一款世界意象。

 

The artistic context of Perseverance – No Limitation originates from the artist’s present, personal, everyday life. However, Lee guides his audience to calmly and positively revisit all kinds of social and cultural issues introduced by the contemporary society. The painted cityscape, people, and animals are in bold and unpretentious colors such as orange, red, emerald green, bright yellow, royal blue, etc., interspersed with gold paint and silver powder. The use of prismatic colors, integrated with free-flowing, confident forms in black lines, delineates the agreeable, harmonious world that stands out from the tumultuous reality in people’s eyes.

 

 

李柏毅(Leland Lee)1989年出生於洛杉磯，一歳半時被確診為自閉症患者，至八歲時卻流露出藝術上特殊的天份，在母親簡靜惠全時的關照和盡心盡力的支持下，他透過繪畫與圖像，開啓了與外界溝通的一個特殊管道，他無時無刻不在畫畫，用畫筆取代唇舌，傾訴了他所體會的人生。柏毅的外公簡錦錐，是臺北極著名文會場所「明星咖啡」屋的創辦人，與臺灣藝文界有著千絲萬縷的關係。柏毅隨母返台定居，母親接棒投入了明星咖啡屋的經營發展，而柏毅除了熱衷於個人創作外，也陸續為明星咖啡廳設計了一系列的商品新包裝。

 

Leland Lee was born in Los Angeles in 1989. He was diagnosed of autism when he was one and a half years old. At the age of eight, he has showed unique talents in arts. With the full-time care and dedicated efforts of his mother, Ms. Karen Chien, Lee created a special way of communicating with the world through the act of painting and his works. He has been painting persistently ever since, making his voice heard with the paint brush and conveying the life he has experienced. Lee’s maternal grandfather, Mr. Archiybold Chien, is the founder of the renowned cultural site, Astoria Café, and has been deeply involved with the Taiwanese cultural circle. After returning and settling down in Taiwan, Lee’s mother has been managing the café. Apart from making art, Lee has also designed a series of merchandise packaging for the café, too. 

 

 

從怕臉上沾到任何水珠的嬰兒，到成為比賽級的長泳健將；從可能失衡、無法走路的小孩，發展成愛好騎馬和滑雪的青年；從可能因自閉症而無法與人溝通，李柏毅自繪畫天地中，也成功地開闢出了一條和外界銜接，與世人分享源源美感的陽關大道，如今，包括設計和音樂在內，他的多方才華已光芒四射而普獲肯定。原來，他受自天啟和家教的藝術才能，是打開世人藝術視野和美學共感的一把光明之鑰！

 

From being an infant that was afraid of having water on his face, Lee is now a professional, competitive long-distance swimmer; from being a child that was potentially physically out-of-balance and might never walk, Lee has become a youth fond of horse riding and skiing; from being a possible uncommunicative autistic individual, Lee has found a way to connect and share unending artistic beauty with the world through painting. Today, his multiple talents, including design and music, shine through all corners of the world and are widely acknowledged. We finally understand that his divinely inspired, home-schooled talents are the illuminating key to awake our collective artistic vision and aesthetic perception.