Blanca Amorós 個展 | 奔向灰色地

Husks of Endurance 奔向灰色地 Blanca Amorós 個展

Husks of Endurance-Blanca Amorós Solo Exhibition

西班牙藝術家Blanca Amorós深造於德國，近年活躍於歐洲各地。作品畫面以令人不忍直視的殘酷為特色，然奔放的色塊和細膩的線條卻含著曖曖的浪漫光芒。在為期數年的累積醞釀下，Blanca Amorós首次在台灣的個展「奔向灰色地」終於要於今年五月問世！

當照片如同摘掉外殼的水果，失去了讓人辨讀的能力，在這段忍受缺席的過程裡，僅透過赤裸的色彩和線條，我們是否會意外且大膽的迎來更多的模糊和曖昧？

「Husks of Endurance奔向灰色地」一展主要透過藝術家攝影繪畫的作品來呈現藝術在創作過程中對於遺棄美學的影像語言。畫面中人像各異其趣的姿態靈感來自藝術家從日常市集拯救回來的一批批家族照片、私人收藏相簿、和60年代到70年代的情色照片等。這些不再為人所有的相片，藝術家透過如同告白般的赤裸筆觸和色調重新詮釋著這些無可復返的時光，並讓封存的記憶得到重生的自由。

Blanca Amorós的各個畫面彷彿成為各自獨立的時空，透過觀者情感來搭建跨越過去與現在的橋梁。灰色地成為一種對逝去、對遺棄的隱喻，其中青年、孩童、女人等身軀，彷彿仍保有在遺棄之前，那該有的尊嚴和美麗形貌。這些作品成為一個時空來探尋集體的記憶，好讓我們奔向那被封存遺忘的敘事，更甚之地去成為一個高度曖昧的載體。

AKI Gallery presents Husks of Endurance, the Spanish artist Blanca Amoró’s first solo exhibition in Taiwan. Comprised of 39 pieces of retro style paintings, the exhibition will be on view from May 7th to May 29^th, 2016.

The artist was born in Spain and studied in Germany. She is now highly active in Europe and her works is known to be delicate and full of stories. The concept of her works for this exhibition engages relationships between time and memory; the time and memory that is no longer belongs to anyone. The inspiration comes from a group of images of family albums, private collections, and erotic magazines of the 60s and 70s she rescued from flea markets. The artist repaints these images and intentionally avoids faces, determined lines or details in order to erase identities and to give the viewers the opportunity to imagine. Amorós constructs a hidden reality within these images; the kitsch erotic actresses and familiar faces lose their original reference. They are no longer family souvenirs or private memoirs, but rather a space to find a collective memory: to discover forgotten worlds

As many of her paintings are based on photos that are free from ownership, she gives these images new meaning, new body, new pictorial dimensions through the repainting process and invents new realities and creates a fragmentary aesthetic of loss.