Thursday, October 27, 2011

Brian Eno 與他的 77 Million Paintings

新買的油性粉彩外盒上的顏色繽紛的令人目眩,按耐不住心裡的那份好奇心,立刻將鐵盒外層的膠膜撕開,當我打開鐵盒瞬間,看著紅、黃、藍、綠、紫... 一支支色澤飽滿的粉彩條跳動在眼前,此刻心情竟有著一種莫名的激動,有點像是小時候從大人手中接到玩具那般的興奮。
試完一個顏色,緊接著換上另一個顏色,原本白白一片的圖畫紙上快速的被各種色彩佔滿,就在玩的不亦樂乎的當下,不知怎麼地,腦中忽然浮閃過 Brian Eno 的影像與他所創作的 77 Million Paintings,這時坐在書桌前的我頓時陷入多年前的那次奇妙夜晚,依稀記得當晚我特地將電腦搬到寬敞的餐桌,花了幾個鐘頭逕自在黑暗中觀賞從電腦畫面傳來的一張張、變幻莫測的畫面。



77 Million Paintings 是 Brian Eno 在2006年發表的圖像創作。
Eno 這個人(神)啊,最有趣的地方就在於他時常有些獨特的想法,而這些想法卻經常成為大家眼中的創舉,據說這些大家眼中的創舉卻是 Eno 從生活中的細微觀察和體悟所得到的靈感。此神人不但在音樂上擁有許多令人望之讚嘆的創新思維,此外,他對繪畫的想法與靈感也同樣地令人感到驚喜。

本身攻讀藝術的 Eno,在 77 Million Paintings 裡做了一次很特別的藝術實驗,他將自己曾經畫過的將近300幅畫作,在經過電腦程式的自由重組、改造之後,再利用燈光與影像分裂,快速變換成為千變萬化、色彩絢麗的7700萬幅不同風貌的圖畫,據說這7700萬幅圖畫在九千年內圖像也不會重複,它們就像一幅永遠看不完的畫作,而那些無法預知的變奏正是Eno想傳達的意念。

Eno 曾在接受採訪時説過: "你不妨這樣想,藝術家不是終結者,而是播種者,我把我自己最初畫出來的那幅畫視為種子,然後我澆灌它,最終它就成為了一束鮮花。"
他說,在這件作品裡想自己傳達的是一種「視覺迷幻」和「高度平靜」的想像,而這些不斷演變發展的顏色、形狀和形式將給人一種「投身到另外一個世界」的感覺。



看著電腦幕裡將 Eno 的繪畫改變模樣之後呈現出的樣子,在加上圖像變化過程中伴隨著 Eno 自己創作的氛圍環境音樂,是一件很棒的體驗,經過連續幾小時不斷演變卻不會重複的光影投射表演,有時看似像棵樹的畫面,瞬間又轉變成星雲般的絢麗,花樣百出,精采迷人。

77 Million Paintings 曾於倫敦、威尼斯、米蘭、東京、雪梨和加拿大等多個城市展示,其中以2009年在雪梨歌劇院以音樂、光、意念為主題的 Vivid Sydney 大型藝術節上的演出最為吸睛,當次活動正以 Eno 的77 Million Paintings 揭開序幕並打響頭炮。當天 Eno 將雪梨歌劇院當成了一張巨大的畫布,自己近300件個人繪畫以各式組合透過視頻方式投射至整個歌劇院,燈光與色彩的合奏點亮整個雪梨港,景像美不勝收。







誠如 Brian Eno 所言: "我希望讓人能放慢腳步,重新探索如何去感受藝術帶給我們的想像!"
就讓我們學習放慢步調,細細品味這位生活藝術家所帶給我們的驚喜與希望。

Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings
From: swerve calgary.com

About 10 years ago, Brian Eno was walking home from his studio in London, when he peered into a window. There he saw a group of “posh people sitting around a table,” having dinner. Behind them was a black plasma screen. It was a eureka moment.

“I thought, ‘That’s a missed opportunity, that ought to be a painting,” he told a group of assembled journalists at the Glenbow Museum.

In the intervening decade, Eno has been working to reclaim those lost moments as well as show art on computer and television screens. His video work was already being shown around the world in galleries, but why couldn’t people sitting at home have access to the same work? Computers are an easy dissemination platform.

The ultimate result of that walk home is 77 Million Paintings, opening today at the Glenbow as part of the High Performance Rodeo. The work is a morphing amalgamation of 296 images, overlaid in random sequences and set to Eno’s ambient music. As the exhibition title suggests, there are 77 million possible combinations, ensuring every viewer sees something different. The work proves to be meditative, slow and vibrant as it splashes across the darkened exhibition room.

Eno started working with light and video in the late ’60s. “I haven’t gotten very far, that’s pretty much what this is,” he says.





























Brian Eno: Let There Be Light

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