神话系列

在古希腊时期,神话人物雕像大多是拥有色彩,我希望能再一次捕获这种古老的体验,拥有颜色与时间的古希腊罗马神话雕塑。于是采用油画的颜料进行创作背景,然后再将绘画进行扫描,因此背景中也拥有着时间痕迹,而前景的主体变形的雕塑同样通过扫描仪得到,而背景跟前景的故事相互呼应,前景的雕塑是客观叙述的代表,因为它所代表的是众人所认知的神话故事,而背景的色彩跟色块则是一种感性的情绪。理性与感性,色彩与形体,二者之间相互补充,最后得到拥有时间的痕迹的色彩图像。如阿波罗母亲勒托(Leto,宙斯的情人)的图像,来自于希腊神话,宙斯老婆赫拉(Hera)因嫉妒她的孩子没有勒托与宙斯生的孩子强,所以放了一条巨龙,希望吞噬勒托,结果宙斯出面阻止,命令海神波塞冬在海上升起一座漂浮的岛屿,最后命令赫尔墨斯将勒托安全带到岛上。又如另一张很多乳房的阿耳忒弥斯(Artemis),作为月亮女神,狩猎女神以及生育女神的阿尔忒弥斯,她的雕塑常放在神庙里被敬奉,因此在背景创作中也引进有关宗教里的象征图像(耶稣或玛利亚圣像四周的)椭圆形灵光,英文称之Mandorla,象征新生,圣灵。



Mythology

In ancient Greece, the sculpture of mythological figures were mostly colored. I wanted to capture the ancient perception once again, to bring colors and feeling of time to the Greek and Rome sculptures. I painted background in oils, then scanned it, so that the background achieved time trace. On the foreground, the deformation of the sculpture is obtained through movement on scanner. The sculpture is narration. It tells the story rationally and objectively,  which we are all familiar with. Meanwhile the color and tone on background presents sentiment and emotions. The background responds to the foreground. Eventually, we got a colorful mythological image with time traces, and it also contains rational and emotional aspects in forms and colors. 

For example, the image Leto is from the Greek mythology. She is Apollo’s mother and lover of Zeus.  Hera, the wife of Zeus, who envies Leto had a better child, sends a dragon, to swallow Leto. Zeus stops it and orders Poseidon to raise a floating island. Zeus commands Hermes leading Leto to the island in security. The bold blue stocks on the background complements the story, and represents the conflict at the same time.  

Another example is Artemis, Goddess of the moon, hunting and patron for mother and kinds. Her sculptures are often worshiped in Greek temples.  In devising the background for this sculpture,  I introduced religious symbol, the Mandorla, theradiance of luminous cloud around Jesus and Virgin Mary. It is a symbol of new life, the Holy Spirit.