《Mass Movement Energy 空中之有》

《空中之有》贝弗利•巴尔卡特个展

开幕茶会：2022/5/14 (六) , 3-5 pm

展期:2022/5/7-6/19  (12:00pm – 20:00pm, 周一休馆)

地点:大象艺术空间馆

地址:404 台湾台中博馆路15号

Beverly Barkat: Mass Movement Energy 

Exhibition Venue: Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan 

Dates: May 7 – Jun 19, 2022

Vernissage: May 14, 2022 

Free entry, Noon – 8pm, closed Mondays

「我在寻找我不知道的，我正要去探索的。新冠肺炎封城期间，我试着了解我自己，试着以一种无法用言语解释的方式实现那些我看见的能量与运动，将它转化到画中，每个上色的部分、每个单一线条、每个单一的点，都必须有一个存在的理由，它以爆发的方式互动、平静、消失，整合成为一条线，一幅画。」

“I’m looking for what I don’t know, what I’m exploring. During Covid-19, we had a shutdown, and I pushed myself to really interrogate and understand what I was, I did something here that [visually manifested and described] what I was doing, translating it to the canvas in a different way with a different energy. Within the painting, every single mark, every single line, every single point has to have a reason. It interacts in such a way that it bursts, calms down, disappears. All of that comes together, to be one line, one painting.”

~节录自艺术家Beverly Barkat (贝弗利•巴尔卡特)创作自述

1966年出生于南非的以色列艺术家贝弗利•巴尔卡特（Beverly Barkat），作品曾在以色列、日本、意大利、美国等地展出，2019年曾受邀于ART TAIPEI 台北国际艺术博览会公共艺术展区，展出创作灵感来自探讨以色列12支派与圣经申命记的装置艺术作品「After the Tribes」(此作品亦曾于罗马邦康帕尼Boncompagni 博物馆展出)，以金属雕塑来探索美学与政治之间的关系，源于这个展出经验，开启了艺术家与台湾的连结。

《空中之有Mass Movement Energy》以色列艺术家：贝弗利•巴尔卡特（Beverly Barkat）亚洲首檔个展，艺术家以平面创作探讨物与物之间和谐共存以及自我心理与社会状态的期许，2022年5月7日至6月19日，大象艺术空间馆将为您呈现艺术家探索、诠释宇宙中，个体遵循某种律动与运行的大型油画系列作品与部分水墨作品，背后复杂而微妙的绘画姿态变化。

个展中的每件作品，皆传达了解构与重组状态之间的界限，从而塑造了当下空间内各种力量：内部和外部，有形甚或无形，所有这些元素都悄悄地进行了微妙的转变，在艺术家的绘画中，每一个短暂的瞬间将成就永恒。在Beverly Barkat的创作过程和绘画手法中，自然的节奏似乎对过去的生活体验做出了响应。每一次笔触线条的停留、转折或堆栈，都带出不可抹灭的时间与痕迹，跃动、速度而产生的律动感，颜料堆栈渗透出透明柔和的光线，如迷人诗句的温和平静而缓慢地展开。

透过Beverly Barkat的微观，诠释了一种未完成且持续进行的状态，透过内在自省来感受每个生活当下，从而体现了创造力。

Mass Movement Energy - Beverly Barkat's (b. 1966 in Johannesburg, South Africa; lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel) first solo exhibition in Asia, will be featured at Da Xiang Art Space (a well-known academic art gallery in Taichung, central Taiwan). It presents Barkat’s exploration of matter in the universe, specific motions, unveiling complex yet subtle dynamics behind her painterly gesture. Mass Movement Energy comprises oil paintings and ink drawings.

Each individual work in Barkat's Mass Movement Energy communicates the threshold between deconstruction and reconstruction, shaping forces within immediate space: internal and external, being and non-being. All of these elements quietly undergo subtle transformation where each fleeting moment in Barkat’s paintings and drawings becomes an eternity in the landscapes of stillness within motion, and motion within stillness. In the artist's creative process and painterly gesture, nature’s rhythms seem to respond to past life experiences. Each lingering, turning, or accumulating line and brushstroke evokes indelible time and a sense of movement that is conjured by traces, pulses, and speed. A soft light permeates the accumulation of pigments, unfurling slowly with the gentle calmness of a mesmerizing poem.

In Mass Movement Energy, Beverly Barkat masterfully interprets an incomplete and ongoing condition in the microcosmos, where creativity is epitomized by locating the inner self as a key to perceiving the present moment.

更多艺术家Beverly Barkat信息

More information on Beverly Barkat’s work and artistic path

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Barkat