CTCAC成果展：「美麗寶島，花漾台北」
2010
尺寸依展出空間而異
油畫、單頻道錄影、文件
CTCAC，中華台北當代藝術中心於2010年9月承辦由文建會所補助的第一期中國大陸藝術家來台駐點創作的成果展，現場除了展示一幅題為《美麗寶島，花漾台北》的巨幅油畫創作之外，亦詳細側拍紀錄了首批來台的八位中國藝術家，在駐點創作期間所觀察到的台北，以及在這個城市中所體驗的生活風景片段。
中華台北當代藝術中心表示，對於此次展覽所欲呈現的焦點－藝術家在畫作中所描繪的台北風景，究竟是再現了一個當代底下的社會結構象徵，亦或是一種對於純粹美學觀點的反思？更甚者，藝術家亦有意識地將對於此補助政策背後的審查機制，做一次深入的討論，究竟在兩岸不同的文化背景中，對於「當代」一詞所描繪的語彙，在觀者心中會各自產生出怎麼樣的面貌？
而此次展覽於開幕所舉辦的畫作義賣活動，中華台北當代藝術中心表示，這是一個有意去操作的策略。藉由此幅充滿歧義想像，且語意不明的風景油畫義賣的所得款項，捐出給台灣相關的土地運動團體，在「作品」身份從形式到內在的多重轉換之下，「藝術」之於「政治」的相對關係被模糊化、去立場化。我們眼前看見的不見得是一幅純粹的風景油畫，但也不見得是一個機制批判的導火線。藝術品本身的個性，將從這個地方開放給觀者去定義與形塑。（文／中華台北當代藝術中心）
中華台北當代藝術中心
（「中國。當代。超煤品」藝術團體：阮永翰、賴俊泓、李萬鏗、曾立宇、高樹邦、吳祥溢、丘垂裕、張益彬）
成立於2010年。目前主要活動於台灣台北
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展覽
2010 「中國。當代。超媒品」，八又二分之一畫廊，台北，台灣
Mei Li Bao Dao, Hua Yang Tai Bei (Beautiful Formosa, Blooming Taipei) Exhibition
2010
Dimensions variable
Painting, single-channel video, promotional material
In September 2010, The Chinese Taipei Contemporary Art Center (CTCAC) presents an exhibition of the first group of Chinese artists who were invited to take residency in Taipei with the funding of the Council for Cultural Affairs. As the outcome of this government-funded residency, the exhibition features a large-scale painting, titled “Beautiful Formosa, Blooming Taipei”, along with video documentations of these eight artists’ observations of Taipei and the snapshots of their experience during the residency.
According to CTCAC, the focal point of the exhibition – Taipei’s landscape as portrayed by the artists – can be read as a symbolic representation of the underlying structure of contemporary society, or simply an aesthetic introspection. The artists also address issues such as the jurying process behind the government’s funding policies, and given the differences of the cross-Strait cultural backdrop, how the viewer will understand the vocabularies used to portray the “contemporary”.
CTCAC says that the auction at the opening of the show is a deliberate move. The sale of this equivocal, obscure painting of landscape will be donated to an activist group of land ethics. As both the form and content of the work’s identity become drastically transformed, the relationship between art and politics is blurred and stripped of polemics. What is seen is no longer simply a landscape painting, neither just a primer of institutional critique. The nature of the work as work is thus to be defined and formed by the audience.
(Text by CTCAC. Translated by Manray HSU)
Chinese Taipei Contemporary Art Center (CTCAC)
(Jhong Guo。Dang Dai。Chao Mei Pin Group: RUAN Yung-han, LAI Jiun-hung, LI Wan-keng, TSENG Li-yu, GAU Shu-bang, WU Shiang-yi, CHIOU Chuei-yu, JHANG Yi-bin)
Founded in 2010. Now works in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Exhibition
2010 Jhong Guo。Dang Dai。Chao Mei Pin，8 and 1/2 Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan
