神话根源——罗德尔·塔帕雅个展Rodel Tapaya: Mythical Roots

开幕酒会Opening : 延期至 2009.6.26 4:00pm

展览时间Date : 2009.6.26-7.26

参展艺术家Artist : 罗德尔·塔帕雅Rodel Tapaya

展览地点Venue : 北京市东城区东四北大街107号天海商务大厦B101-103 索卡艺术中心

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

在这个名为“神话根源”（Mythical Roots）的展览中，塔帕雅的身份宛似一位吟游诗人，他与Carlos Francisco和Brenda Fajardo为伴，一起向您回忆和讲述创世神话：大洪水、第一位人类妇女、最原始的火种、香蕉的起源，以及其他宇宙中物种起源的故事。塔帕雅天生就具有非凡的审美能力，尤其喜爱民俗故事，他从未因乡间方言的原因而出现失误，正因为如此，他的工作显得重要而有价值。从前面的系列中不难看出，他对清贫的环境有特殊的感情，也特别敏感，这可能与他日常家居生活的简单、朴素有关。看起来他打算走平民路线：事情的发生总是有着特定的方式，人们也总是对某些品行特别地关注，即使它只起到装饰作用。实际上，塔帕雅的全部技能都只是一种装饰，真正的中心还是每一株活生生的植物，它们的形象清晰可辨，纠缠在一起形成一派繁荣景象，而画笔所搭成的架子就是它们攀爬的对象。用图画来表达创世神话同时集合了故事书与连环画的优点，是一项颇为有趣的尝试。塔帕雅的画卷展开了一副宏大的史诗，严厉的摩尼教，充满怪念头 的移民者，天灾人祸都在其中画下浓墨重彩的笔划。大致来说，艺术家找到了一个适合自己的方式来阐述他的天人之道；有时候画面上锐利的色彩和沉重的笔调让人有惊险刺激的感觉，极具感染力。

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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