KIM DONG YOO
金東囿

瑪麗蓮夢露 vs 毛澤東

細節
金東囿
瑪麗蓮夢露 vs 毛澤東
油彩 畫布
2005年作
簽名:KDY;金東囿


展覽
2007年1月17-30日「微小就是漂亮」Leehwaik 畫廊 首爾 韓國


金東囿的藝術手法細膩獨特,直接地使用眾多的微縮頭像拼湊成名人肖像,作品將傳統與當下的文化象徵連接在一起,對社會經濟現象進行深入探討,建立一種融合精緻藝術與大眾文化的美學樣式。這種思考和德國思想家班雅明想法不約而同,班雅明曾提到:「在歷史的洪流裡,人類感受事物的方式會跟隨人性的整體存在模式改變。人的知覺感受在怎樣的系統下運作、由什麼媒體傳送表達,不但取決於自然環境,也取決於歷史的變遷。」

受到符號學理論的啟發,金東囿借用了明星與歷史人物等為人熟悉的肖像,運用他們的微縮頭像系統地拼貼成一個大的肖像,呈現一個嶄新、既統一,又分崩離折的人物形象,打破並挑戰觀眾對這些人物的既定印象。

《瑪麗蓮夢露 vs 毛澤東》(Lot 1307) 的毛澤東由密密麻麻的夢露格子組成,而《伊麗莎白 vs 克拉克.蓋博》(Lot 1308) 中伊麗莎白則以克拉克.蓋博的迷人輪廓為像素。透過細緻描繪的單色圖像,畫面上的毛澤東與伊麗莎白風采依然,令人緬懷。然而當觀眾逐步靠近,會發現畫面裡原來擠滿著一式一樣的迷你夢露與蓋博,作品因而無聲地批判著媒體,在傳媒重複的訊息與宣傳下,足以影響大眾的觀感與認知。畫中的
毛澤東與伊麗莎白.泰勒的圖像都有刻意的迷濛視覺效果,在像素的組合下,顯現出領袖的沉著魅力與明星的美豔形象,諷刺了流行媒體對兩人形象刻意玩弄的深意。藝術家力證大眾媒體把這些人物神話化,點明了所謂的「名人」是如何地被人為地建立、虛構出來;他們的形象又是如何地被消費、被濫用;如何被包裝為商品;以及如何被策略性地賦予某些吸引大眾注意力的特質,而在這些受人景仰的偶像被反覆複製的過程中,表象與內在的交叉驗證,更隱含了韓國藝術家對於文化與自我認同的強調與重視。
展覽
Seoul, Korea, Leehwaik Gallery, Small is Beautiful, 17-30 January 2007.

拍品專文

In his straightforward rendering of portraiture but with an inventive technique, Kim Dong Yoo probes economic sociology by connecting past and present cultural references in an overall aesthetic fused with high and low art characteristics, perhaps as his nod to Walter Benjamin's idea that "during long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well." Inspired by semiotic theory, Kim Dong Yoo appropriates widely recognized images of celebrities and historical figures in his paintings, coyly manipulating them through a tightly formulated method to challenge viewer's stereotyped perceptions of these personae.

Mao is fabricated with pressured grid of Monroe, while Elizabeth Taylor is manifested by obsessive pixels of Clark Gable. Kim carefully controls the monotonic patches to conjure a nostalgic memoir of Mao and Elizabeth. His charismatic tranquility, however is disturbed with closer inspection, by the mass produced mini-Monroe and Gable, to subtly criticize the media on the manipulation and speculation on the two figures. Mao Zedong's portrait created from the pixelated images neutrally presents Mao as a leader of his country while Elizabeth Taylor's beauty and celebrity is presented through the images of her husband Clark Gable. Kim's ideology of this correlation between Monroe and Mao; Taylor and Gable is to assert the mythical paradigm promoted by mass media, dictating how celebrities are produced, how their images are consumed, flagrantly packaging them into sellable products, and strategically endowing them with characteristics capable of evoking public attention and idolization. Through the reproduced images of these idols, the outer appearance and inner characteristics of the celebrity is contrasted and compared and thus represents Korean contemporary artist's emphasis on cultural and self identity.

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