Space...空間＠薩奇美術館

                                                                            
Artist : Friedrich Kunath
展出藝術家：弗里德里希·庫納什

Saatchi gallery (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/) has created quite a controversy in the art world over the years. For me Saatchi offers something which quite a few galleries seem unable to do and that is space!

過去幾年，薩奇美術館在藝術世界裡時常創造出許多令人爭議的創舉。而對我來說，薩奇美術館提供了一些其他藝廊做不到的本事，例如：空間！

I enjoy going for a walk there. It is only 5 minutes from the tube station, its in a nice area, its building is huge and its free. I have never seen this gallery packed with artworks and I definitely appreciate this. At times you do wonder if any curatorial effort goes into the shows, as there always seems to be a 2D work there, there and there, and 3D works are mostly position near the corners of the room – it is almost like walking into someone’s house where you know where you will find the house’s artworks.


我非常享受在薩奇藝廊散步的時刻。從地鐵站到這裡只需要五分鐘，而且位於一處很優美的地段，空間大又免費。我從來沒看過薩奇美術館將藝術品把空間硬是塞得滿滿的，而我真的非常的感謝他這麼做！偶爾你會猜想策展的方式，當那似乎永遠都展出平面作品，這裡那裡，那裏和那裡，而立體作品常常就安排在靠近房間的一處角落-就像是你走進某某人的住所，而且自己可以猜想到在房子的哪裡可以找到藝術品。

I enjoy Saatchi gallery because it shows a variety of works and often young people’s work, it seems. Or at least this is the impression I get because I find the work shown to be very experimental. It is as if Saatchi always goes out on a shopping spree and buys or represents artists that have just finished college or university (I hope I am not offending the artists involved with the gallery, but I do mention this as a positive thing!). And I like that; it reminds one that it’s okay to experiment, it’s good that the process is very much part of the whole. This seems at times more true and in a way simple; maybe so simple that for some it feels too simple. But to me, it acts as a reminder that art is something fun and enjoyable and it is a good escape from the formal, seriousness that I feel at times overrides the art scene.


我之所以喜歡薩奇美術館因為在那裡展示了很多年輕藝術家的作品。或者，至少我的印想中所看到的藝術品都是非常的大膽又具有實驗性質。就像是薩奇美術館買下或者呈現這些剛從大學或學院畢業的藝術家們（我希望沒有冒犯到曾在這裡展出的藝術家，但我是在說一件正面的事情！）而我非常喜歡這樣！這提醒了我“實驗性“是可行的，而過程對於最後的結果是多麼的重要！有時候他是事實，或是對於某些人來說覺得太簡單了。但對我來說，實驗精神扮演著一個提醒者的角色-藝術是好玩的，而且使人愉悅，而且我覺得有時候超乎了對美學的品味，擺脫了制式，嚴肅的規範。

The other thing Saatchi do is a small B&W leaflet with all artists involved in their current exhibition. It only costs £1 but I like this idea as I can take this with me and do further research if I am interested in a specific artist etc.

Favourite Works for me this time were the drawings below; so playful and colourful and I would love to have one of these in my house! Artists: Gurt and Uwe Tobias

薩奇還做了一件事，就是將展出的藝術家們與當期的展覽同列在B&W的手冊上。只要1英鎊的價格。但我喜歡這個點子，因為當我帶走它也可以對特別吸引我的藝術家作進一步的研究。我最喜愛的作品是下面的這幅; 有點戲謔感，而且色彩豐富，我很想在我家中也收藏一幅！

藝術家：Gurt and Uwe Tobias

 

Assumptions...假想

(Part 2 of 2)

I am not going to dwell a lot on this (part 2 of the article), as it is yet another example as the previous mentioned, and as it is also a New Year,  Happy New Year everyone!


part 1 

我在這裡不多說了（因為這是第二篇文章）這是與之前文章比較的另一個例子。現在也是亞洲的（農曆）新年，先祝大家新年快樂！

之前的文章

A friend artist was accepted to participate in an exhibition in Cork Street Gallery (http://corkstreetopenexhibition.com/default.asp - very expensive applications, although part of the income was given to a charity!); Cork Street is a street in London where quite a few galleries are placed and its right in the centre of town, placed within a very expensive area. So when you hear that someone exhibits on Cork Street it sounds great and very promising, as many renowned artists exhibit their works here. However, unfortunately, this was another example of a money making situation where the artwork was not necessarily taken as much into consideration. I actually believe it were worse than the exhibition on Vyner Street as this one seemed to also include craftwork within the contemporary works. Believe me, I have nothing against craft work, and I actually enjoy doing much of it myself, but again there did not seem to be much of a curatorial effort put into this exhibition.  Basically, it seemed more of a case of how much stuff can we fit on the walls, in the space? The sculptures, which its nature is 3D, were placed in such close proximity to one another, in corners or other such places which meant you could not actually walk around them!

一個藝術家朋友接受了庫克藝廊的邀請（申請費非常的昂貴，儘管適因為部份的收入會捐給慈善機構！）庫克街位於倫敦一條擁有幾間藝廊坐落於此的市中心地帶，那裡是一個地價非常高的地方！所以當你聽到誰在庫克街辦了展覽，那真是聽起來很棒而且是個很好的宣傳，因為許多出名的藝術家都在這裡辦展。然而，可惜的是，商業化的買賣造成藝術品的必要性並不是被考慮的原因之一。我非常確定它比Vyner Street差多了，因為它似乎把手工藝品也加入當代藝術品的行列裡。相信我，我無意成為這類手工藝品的反對者，事實上我在創作手工品的過程中，我也非常的享受，但是我個人無法看出任何策展的用心在這個展覽之中。基本上，它似乎比較像是再說“我們能夠用多少東西把這個牆面或這個空間給塞滿？”雕像本來就是3D立體的，但卻被陳列於非常密集的範圍裡，緊緊相連著，在角落裡或其他讓你甚至無法環視欣賞它們的地方。

A catalog was made, a glossy, expensive catalog which seemed to cry out ‘how posh’ but actually, it was quite the opposite. They had included all the works of the exhibition and to my horror a lot of the artworks in it were cropped to fit, basically creating their own versions of them... 

目錄被用一種光滑又昂貴的材質製造，好像傳達”我是很高級優雅的”其實上，這是完全相反的。它們將全部的作品收集在這個展覽，我感到非常的恐怖因為它們把許多作品胡亂的剪裁過後，硬是放在編排裡面！基本上它們是再重新創造這些作品的不同版本。

Do you think its okay or even good to have such exhibitions? Yes? No? Why? Because they do show many artists’ works and they might even get sold (therefore helping the artists and obviously the galleries?) and so on? I would love to hear your opinions on this matter.

你們認為這樣的展覽可以說的過去，或者甚至說很成功嗎？贊同？反對？為什麼？因為他們可以展示很多藝術家的作品，也許已經有被買走的（因此可以幫助藝術家以及藝廊嗎？）所以然後呢？我希望可以聽聽看妳們對於這件事情的看法。

Regarding the Matt Roberts exhibition space (mentioned in previous article) I would like to let you know, I received an email by them informing me that they are moving to a bigger location – which is good. At least they recognised the necessity for such a move and might actually be putting their money into good use.

根據Matt Robets的展覽的地方（在上一篇文章有提及），我希望你們能夠知道，我收到他們的email通知我，藝廊即將要搬到更大的空間了，那真是太好了！至少他們能夠分辨出搬到合適空間的重要性，而且將她們的金錢作更好的運用。

作者Writer/照片提供Photo

Nicol Dourala

翻譯Translater

Meigo Shay

[包包突擊糾察隊！] 到當代藝術館2013展覽現場突擊Second Soul Graphic Art團員們的大背包！

私底下這些藝術家們的生活總是不為人知, 想知道他們的背袋裡面到底裝了什麼私人小物嗎? 這可是跟個人品味與興趣息息相關的小線索喔! 特派員Meigo特別在深夜裡潛入當代藝術館，祕密突擊Second Soul團員們的包包，在SS團員們忙碌的穿梭佈置2013的展覽時，還特別大方的配合拍攝，真是非常感謝呢！別錯過! 現在就讓Meigo帶你們一探究竟，打開你們好奇的心，來看看這8位藝術創者包包內不為人知的祕密吧!!

▲突擊對象：Second Soul Graphic Art members

▲突擊時間：2011/11 深夜

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編號1. Cowper Wang 男
2013策展人之一/藝術家/"做DoSomething"設計公司老大

* 突擊現場：當代藝術館（主要展間）

* 興趣: 工作，收藏古董傢具

* 專長：環遊世界同時…還是工作

* 隨身物品:

1. 超大M0851黑色背包
2. Porter錢包

3. 薄荷錠

4. 維他命（因為我超愛吃酸的，檸檬汁也是我的最愛）

5. 帽子（一定放包包裡，但不是每天都會拿出來帶）

6. Cano單眼相機

7. 粉紅逗貓棒鑰匙圈（雖然很娘，但鑰匙好找多了）

8. iphone手機

Dosomething Studio

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編號2. Bounce William 男 
2013參展藝術家/擅長街頭塗鴉藝術創作

* 突擊現場：當代藝術館（主要展間）

* 興趣: 畫畫，玩滑板

* 專長：創作，專業塗鴉藝術家

* 隨身物品:

1. Bounce專屬塗鴉貼紙

2. 代針筆組

3. 工業蠟筆，油漆筆

4. 噴頭

5. 自製改造鞋油筆
（把鞋油用完以後，換上顏料，簽名在牆壁上超好用的！又不怕乾掉！）

6. 粗的油漆筆

7. 噴漆

8. 扁筆

9. 包中包（工具包-將畫畫用具全都放在這裡面）

10. 手繪本

Bounce Graffiti

Bounce Flicker

Assumptions...

(Part 1 of 2)

I have only been in London for a year now, and I say only because I feel in this time I have only just scratched this town’s surface, culturally. When you arrive in a new town you receive a lot of information through a plethora of ways, but often what sticks with you are other people’s perceptions.

Comments such as:

‘ah, have you not been? You must go!’

or

‘I actually do not like it because of ... and ... reason’

or

‘I love that space’

or

‘I find them all rude there and stuck-up’

or

‘that’s miles away’

or

‘a little hidden gem’

or

 ‘they used to be extremely innovative in the work shown but seem to have lost that now’

And this is how I came to apply to the Salon Art Prize 2011 (http://www.salonartprize.com/) which is held at Matt Roberts Arts (http://www.mattroberts.org.uk/) on Vyner Street.  

Book Art 剪紙藝術家-Su Blackwell

你喜歡逛二手書店嗎？書本裡面有之前擁有者的塗鴉筆記，不小心打翻的咖啡印或茶漬，斑駁的封面應該是當時經歷過不同的讀者轉手再轉手，所留下的痕跡。翻開書本那種陳舊的味道，閉起眼睛，你喚起了從前的某段記憶。來自英國的藝術家Su Blackwell，把這份感動幻化成真，用她的眼她的手，利用這些二手書的內頁，剪剪貼貼，平面鉛字/書籍圖片變成了立體童話城堡，喚起你的我的對舊書籍的感動...

Su Blackwell喜歡在二手書店找尋靈感，常常一耗就是一整天，或一整個下午。

帶著剛採購回來的二手書，Su開始著手製作她最愛的紙雕，她手奪天工的技巧，呈現的不僅是令人歎為觀止的紙雕藝術，每項紙雕作品的情境氛圍賦予著每本泛黃書籍重生的靈魂，是引人入勝的重要關鍵。看看以下影片，讓Su告訴你她的創作故事...

影片from YouTube

Su的作品有一種清新華麗的風格，注重生活中美好的小細節，透過她靈巧的手工，精確的切割出想要的線條與塊面，再纖細的質材Su都可以利用的恰到好處。

2011年的作品, The Baron in the Trees

Su的作品，柔軟中帶著永恆的特質。

2010, Carnation, Rose and Jasmine Flower

這些生動的紙花朵，就像在時空凝結時靜止了，停留在最綻放的這一刻。  

Things you come across…只是偶然...

We walked into this gallery, which did not feel like a gallery but more like one’s studio as there were no signs outside indicating that this is an exhibition space – simply, an open door, inviting you in.


我們走進這個不像美術館的展示空間, 它反而更像是一個誰的工作室,因為在外面那裏沒有任何明顯的標誌顯示這裡是一個藝術空間-因為它太過簡單, 太開放了!

Darkness

A strong spotlight is creating a just as strong shadow of a bat-like shape on the gallery floor. Quite a funny juxtaposition as this bat-like shadow on the ground, which is surrounded by darkness, actually exists due to the light. The whole atmosphere starts to feel like a cave.

The ball is bouncing all over the place

It is funny how I am all the way in London, reporting for a blog based in Taiwan, and here/now, I am going to mention Takashi Murakami who is from Japan!

But I guess that is what the contemporary art scene (and not only) is all about.

We are all influenced by someone or something from the moment we are born; starting from within our family, our close environment, to our friends, our social surroundings and so forth... So sometimes it does strike me as odd or even extra ordinary when someone from the other side of the world seems to be pre-occupied with similar if not the same topic/s as me or a fellow artist etc.

I do wonder if as a starting point it has to do with the fact that we are all made out of the same stuff and therefore share the same (basic?) needs.

Recently, I went back to Greece to visit friends and family and what struck me as being really apparent was the fact that we all live in our little bubbles troubled by the same things, miles away from each other trying to survive. I say troubled but I also mean thrilled and delighted accordingly. 

‘By Way of Small Actions’ at Basket House Village Universe Gallery (BHVU Gallery)

I was wondering what I should write about and concluded that it would make more sense to start with a very recent, personal experience.

In July 2011 I participated in a simultaneous residency together with 5 other artists at BHVU Gallery, London. If you have never done a residency but you are thinking about it – do it! Do not think about it, just give it a go. I strongly recommend it to all artists out there, even if it had never crossed your mind. In Great Britain there are several residency opportunities happening all over the place!

It offers you a new environment to work in, a deadline to work towards and you get to meet new people, others who are interested in similar things to you and share same concerns. This residency was a rare opportunity for me as you do not often get the chance to work parallel to other artists in the same space and experience all that is associated with such a collective.

The residency took place throughout July, from Thursday to Sunday between the hours of 12 to 6pm, and was open to the public, to come and view the work in progress which was a bit awkward (at least in the beginning) as you felt you were the spectacle. On Friday the 29^th July we had our Private View and the exhibition went on for the following 2 days.

To apply to the residency you had to create a 7 page booklet together with a proposal and £10. I must admit that I found the booklet to be quite a challenge as I did the proposal. What do you say? How do you say it? How specific should you be regarding the final outcome? Should you be a bit vague in order to allow yourself to be influenced by the space and/or the rest of the people involved? Such and many more questions were raised. All I can say is that at the end of the day you can only put down what you are interested in, what you aim to gain out of this experience regardless of having a set idea or not.

As I mentioned above there were 6 of us and the interesting thing was that we were quite a multi-disciplinary group.

James Lowne & Andrew Stewart were working together creating a film.

Joanna Peace was creating an installation, her main material being fabric and occupied a corner of the gallery.

在地人文精神與傳承-三峽The Can甘樂文創

以前在外念書的時候，就常常在想，台灣這麼小，有些外國人根本不知道它在哪裡，還有人問是個小島嗎？是泰國嗎？(拼音關係Taiwan≠Tailand)

歐美這些國家文化涵養這麼豐富的地方，美學的教育/人民的價值觀跟生活質感等的層次，就如同空氣般自然的在細胞裡環繞著，有時候覺得真是令人羨慕。

這讓我一直想阿想，相對於其他國家，台灣除了原住民/小吃/小紅花碎布，有沒有能夠讓外國人一眼就能辨識是台灣的形象呢？對於建國百年的台灣政府極力推動的文創產業（或稱軟實力），從落實生根到開花結果的現況是什麼呢？

最近，三峽，出現了一個讓我感動的地方叫做[CAN甘樂文創]。而且呢，聽說它已經小有名氣，開業一年了，它的產生，讓三峽產生了一個新的活力文化地點，聽說老闆本身出身自三峽，以前是旅遊節目的企劃後來才開了”甘樂“。以我自己的感覺，甘樂有別於其他文創咖啡店不同之處，在於它是用甘樂“文創志業”為名，與當地青年產生情感連結，喚醒對於三峽這塊土地的認同，並結合地方政府與民間組織，從“三峽在地的文化”與“尋根”的角度，讓新一代將舊一代的歷史發揚，產生在地的認同價值，成為有自信的三峽人。

百年古厝化身—甘樂藝文展演空間

記得在2009年遇見了這間古厝，站在院子裡，可以嗅到古厝斑剝的氣味，可以想像以前的人家在這古厝裡生活的畫面，一百多年了，它就這麼矗立在這河畔前，看著時代歲月的轉變，見證三峽這塊土地上發生的一切，屋子老舊了，老了！不中用了，居住在裡頭的人也離去了（詳全文...）

現在被完整保留的百年古厝，被外層挑高的鐵皮屋圍起，再也不怕風吹日曬了！

鎮店之寶“來碗三峽”-整個三峽的地圖都被濃縮在裡面～

本週好展覽推薦:游擊 Bombing 華山特展

 這週3搶先去體驗了~游擊 Bombing 華山特展
展出的成員，很多都是熟面孔。這次展覽有很多元化的展覽作品，
有插畫，有手稿，也有動畫，等等，
每一張作品都代表了台灣設計師們的心血與力量，

尤其是動畫方面，真的是令我驚艷阿，希望這樣的展覽之後會更多

讓更多人認識我們台灣創意設計力 。
展覽只到周末，這周我推薦大家可以去觀賞這好展，

而且是免費入場阿，佛心來著阿，不看對不起自己。

展期 / 2011 /9 /8 – 2011/9 11 11:00-20:00
地點 / 華山1914文創園區-中四A之3

展覽資訊
游擊 Bombing 特展

Hi Organic動畫藝術設計工作室由2007年於台灣，

台北成立。Organic team提到，台灣藝術設計環境成長緩慢，是由於同儕間不願分享各自相同背景知識，導致台灣藝術創作領域往往發展落後於其他國家。所以，此次受策展人陳敬凱Jing-kai, Chen之邀於華山藝文特區辦展。展覽目的，是因Hi Organic想分享近年來多次參與國際動畫競賽上的創作作品及Organic成員之平日創意發想間手繪作品，及相邀近年來Organic認為最具淺力的台灣年輕新一代藝術創作者，來讓更多支持本土藝術的朋友們，擁有良好藝術展覽空間可以欣賞這些創作作品。也期望，展覽目的能鼓舞其他也在這領域辛苦工作的藝術家們，讓大家未來也擁有這片舞台可以出聲及揮灑表演。

這次展覽內容，Hi Organic邀請了其他三位台灣年輕藝術家；沉到底先生Ken、黃子昂13、及謝宜霖、Sense30、nabiis 一同參與。展場項目包含了近年來的手繪插畫創作、影片製前手繪、繪畫及多次國際參展的動畫影片等。

小人國真的存在!! 來自法國Nantes南特小鎮的巨型玩偶藝術

港口城市Nanets南特, 位於法國西北部, 擁有一項獨門的創意文化, 透過廢船廠的材料
再生利用, 手工製造出栩栩如生的巨大機械玩偶, 操作人員精巧的操弄之下,
小女孩Pequeña Gigante-Risessa, 看似非常有自己的情緒與表情, 走在大街上,
一臉好奇的張望著腳底下的人們, 似乎我們在她眼中才是格列佛傳記裡
那些東奔西走的慌張小人, 誤闖進了她奇異的幻想世界中

2006 小女孩去London旅行

[是誰吃了我的腦]-動畫MV製作團隊.花絮採訪

很多人一定認為一個好的動畫作品，背後一定有很多組團隊來完成它。

今天我們將再度見證奇蹟!!
TIZZY BAC的新歌"是誰吃了我的腦"動畫MV  

只由兩人動畫團隊 圖像大師阿建與3D大師龔爰

一手包辦完成了這4分多鐘的動畫MV。

今天我們有機會突擊2人，呈獻給大家，
2位大師的工作情況歐。

 圖像大師阿建

主要負責:人物角色造型+場景設計+顏色配置+腳本+劇情設計

3D大師龔爰

主要負責:3D動畫+影片剪接+後製效果+音樂對點 +劇情設計

狂風暴雨也一定得去看~[ART TAIPEI 2011 國際藝術博覽會]

這次台北真的造福了我們這些愛看展的朋友們，
ART TAIPEI 2011 國際藝術博覽會，為期4天從8月26號到8月29號，
在台北世貿一館的A.C.D區舉行。

是一場大勝會阿，小編我昨天去過的感想，就是想今天在去一次阿，
真的是想讓人有去第2次的衝動，因為可以一口氣看到這樣多來自世界各國的
藝術大作，真的事難得.難得.難難得~~~~的大好機會阿，
喜愛藝術的朋友們，就算遇到這次的颱風，真的也別受影響阿，

去過就知道真的是值回票價阿。

帶您進入詩意中的英文字體設計

 設計師 Jakub Konvica，設計了A~Z的優美字體，
每一個字母都如同一張優美的插畫，
靈感來源，來自於著名的捷克作家詩人卡雷爾希內克馬查他的詩“五月”。
設計師 Jakub Konvica 將詩中角色故事融合到每個字母中，
完成了這幅驚人的插畫作品。

一本雜誌誕生的心酸血淚~讓我們用記錄影片~快轉~快速體驗

[Little white lies]線上雜誌，自己拍攝並紀錄了一本雜誌的血淚誕生過程，
讓更多人瞭解到他們對這本雜誌所投入的熱情與心血
更讓更多人知道一本雜誌的誕生是怎樣的流程
非常好的影片，推薦給大家觀看歐。

Pixel Galaxy 像素銀河，一本收藏我們童年電玩回憶的聖經阿!!

Pixel Galaxy 這本書我在真的不得不推薦一下。

這本書真的是收藏的當年任天堂GAME BOY年代的，經典大作阿，
洛克人~快打炫風~雙截龍~機器人大戰~神奇寶貝~有太多太多，
當年的美好回藝這本書都幫您收集齊全了，重點是也讓各位看到當年一台GAME BOY黑白機中只有用小小的幾個Pixel確要構成多少的動作與物件

就跟我當年在設計手機GUI一樣，畫面才128X128Pixel，
多少小的icon可能才12x12Pixel大，我們都得攪盡腦汁，在有限的空間內，
設計出大家都看的懂的icon，所以說這真書對我而言不只是收藏的回憶，也算是我的聖經了阿。今天推薦給大家一同回憶一下當年的美好阿