神話根源——羅德爾·塔帕雅個展Rodel Tapaya: Mythical Roots

開幕酒會Opening : 延期至 2009.6.26 4:00pm

展覽時間Date : 2009.6.26-7.26

參展藝術家Artist : 羅德爾·塔帕雅Rodel Tapaya

展覽地點Venue : 北京市東城區東四北大街107號天海商務大廈B101-103 索卡藝術中心

B101-103, Sky&Sea Business Plaza, No.107 Dongsi Beida Street, Dong Cheng District, Beijing, Soka Art Center

在這個名為“神話根源”（Mythical Roots）的展覽中，塔帕雅的身份宛似一位吟遊詩人，他與Carlos Francisco和Brenda Fajardo為伴，一起向您回憶和講述創世神話：大洪水、第一位人類婦女、最原始的火種、香蕉的起源，以及其他宇宙中物種起源的故事。塔帕雅天生就具有非凡的審美能力，尤其喜愛民俗故事，他從未因鄉間方言的原因而出現失誤，正因為如此，他的工作顯得重要而有價值。從前面的系列中不難看出，他對清貧的環境有特殊的感情，也特別敏感，這可能與他日常家居生活的簡單、樸素有關。看起來他打算走平民路線：事情的發生總是有著特定的方式，人們也總是對某些品行特別地關注，即使它只起到裝飾作用。實際上，塔帕雅的全部技能都只是一種裝飾，真正的中心還是每一株活生生的植物，它們的形象清晰可辨，糾纏在一起形成一派繁榮景象，而畫筆所搭成的架子就是它們攀爬的對象。用圖畫來表達創世神話同時集合了故事書與連環畫的優點，是一項頗為有趣的嘗試。塔帕雅的畫卷展開了一副宏大的史詩，嚴厲的摩尼教，充滿怪念頭 的移民者，天災人禍都在其中畫下濃墨重彩的筆劃。大致來説，藝術家找到了一個適合自己的方式來闡述他的天人之道；有時候畫面上銳利的色彩和沉重的筆調讓人有驚險刺激的感覺，極具感染力。

In this exhibition Mythical Roots, Tapaya ventures as a bard, part Carlos Francisco, part Brenda Fajardo, that remembers and recounts the myths of creation: the great flood, the first woman, the primordial fire, the genesis of the banana plant, and other foundational fictions of the universe. And what makes Tapaya's work important and valuable is a certain flair in speaking to a folk aesthetic, which is not to be mistaken for a forced provincial, vernacular style. It might be part of his own humble sensibility, a particular homespun attitude toward the everyday life of his milieu as can be gleaned in a previous series. It might likewise be part of an engagement with tendencies in folk facture: how things are made in a particular way and with specific attention to such virtues as decoration. In fact, in Tapaya's repertoire, ornament is central or, better still, vital and can be discerned in the heady delineation of flora, which becomes a motif of a bounty's source that prospers like tropical vine crawling on the trellis of painting. There is also interest given to graphic expression that seems to mingle story-book fairy tale and komiks, marked by the severe miens of Manichaean characters, the wild whimsy of settlers, and a trace of epic unfolding across a fertile, cataclysmic frontier. In the main, the artist finds a suitable mode to realize his discourse, one that is robust and idiosyncratic, imbued with an acute sense of color and a density that is sometimes breathtaking.

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