Artist's Statement
갤러리 LVS에서는 중국 현대 미술에서 가장 중요한 작가 중 한 명인 미아오 샤오춘의 개인전을 10월 15일부터 11월 5일까지 개최합니다. 중국 현대 미술에서 가장 중요한 작가 중 한 명인 미아오 샤오춘은 현재 베이징에서 거주하며 활동하고 있으며, 중국 중앙 미술 학교에서 교수로 재직하고 있습니다. 또한 많은 국제 전시에서 전시를 진행하고 있습니다.
현재 부산 비엔날레에서도 작품을 선보이고도 있는 미아오 샤오춘의 이번 신작전의 주요 작품은 9개의 패널로 이루어진 설치 작품입니다. 미아오 샤오춘의 신작
미아오 샤오춘은 대형 신작
Artist's Statement
To see death from birth, and birth from death;
To see hell from heaven, and heaven from hell;
To see the end from the beginning, and the beginning from the end.
The Garden of Earthy Delights by Hieronmus Bosch is a triptych. It is commonly recognized that the left wing represents heaven, the central panel earth, and the right wing hell. Facing such a painting, I would like to do two things:
First : remoulding the original triptych into a nine-panel painting, and the remoulding one perspective into seven perspectives using three-dimensional software. The three front panels have the same perspective as the original painting where heaven, earth and hell are shown. The other six side panels are added to show further perspectives. After remoulding the two-dimensional painting into a three-dimensional scene, the side panels reflect various perspectives by examining the original three scenes, linked together on the same dimension, from different viewpoints. From heaven, from birth we see death, and from death we look back at birth; from the beginning we view the end, and from the end we review the beginning.
Second : remoulding an ancient fable into a modern fable. The original painting shows a spectacular scene with numerous characters, and it is depicted with countless details which cannot easily be interpreted. Maybe for Hieronymus Bosch’s contemporaries, all of these details were explicitly obvious. Yet for modern people who are situated in a different context, these details appear obscure, bewildering and confusing. Thus, I would like to use our modern language to create a new set of mysteries, to implicitly express my views about the world, my understandings of existence and death, and this is an alternative way of digging into the roots of mysteries belonging to other times.
Looking from another perspective of space and time, how many times do we have to magnify it, so that our own world can be found ---
Is our birth really birth
Our death really death
Happiness really happiness
And pain really pain?
How many times do we have to magnify it, so that
Mountains appear high
And oceans deep?
