展覽名稱 | 第十一屆台新藝術獎入圍特展
Exhibition | The 11th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition
展覽時間 Date | 2013/04/27-06/23
展覽地點 Venue | 台北當代藝術館 MOCA Taipei

 

陳敬寶︱迴返計畫：四部曲
Curated by CHEN Chin-Pao | Circumgyration: A Quartet

 

 

陳敬寶是專攻攝影的藝術工作者，畢業於美國紐約視覺藝術學院（School of Visual Arts）攝影系，現為淡水鄧公國小專任教師，並就讀國立臺北藝術大學美術創作研究所。1999年起多次在國內外舉行個展和參加聯展，他的作品從客觀的記錄攝影經過新紀實的人物肖像，一路轉型發展至目前強調以攝影為媒介與當代藝術對話的攝影計畫系列。陳敬寶歷年作品曾先後得到紐約視覺藝術學院、台北攝影節、台北美術獎、日本東川賞、亞洲文化協會等機構榮譽獎項。

 

此次入圍的「迴返計劃：四部曲」個展，雖然受限於1839藝廊的場地，只能展出四個攝影計畫各3件，共12件作品，以及40件相關作品的資料。從中仍可看出，這個展覽集結呈現了2008年以來，陳敬寶橫跨台灣、日本、韓國、中國四個地區的擺拍攝影計畫。整個「迴返計劃」始於2001年，捨棄了傳統攝影的抓拍（snapshot）和紀錄（documentary）手法，是以國小校園為場景，採用大型相機結合現場光線和人工打光，邀請多位小朋友們參與演出擺拍的長程攝影計畫。第一階段從他任教的淡水鄧公國小展開進行了七年之久，第二階段為2008年與台北市老松國小同學/家長合作的擺拍計畫，基於學童對過去一年中或父母對自己小學五六年級時最難忘之事的敘述與描繪，進行一種「偽記憶」式的攝影重現，並邀請小朋友入鏡演出他們自己或父母親兒時的角色。本次入圍展的展間規劃，將透過小學生課桌椅與本次入圍作品作為呼應，藉以呼應陳敬寶作品中對於大人與孩童記憶的後設影像。

Chin-Pao Chen is an artist who specializes in photography. He graduated from the Department of Photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and is now a teacher at Teng-Kung Elementary School in Tamsui while attending the MFA graduate program at Taipei National University of the Arts. Since 1999, Chen has participated in several solo and group exhibitions domestically and overseas. His works have evolved from objective documentary photography, to Neo-Realist portraiture, to the present series of photographic projects that emphasize photography as a medium and dialogue with contemporary art. Over the years, he has received honors and awards from the School of Visual Arts in New York, Taipei Photo Festival, Taipei Arts Award, Higashikawa Prize in Japan, and Asian Cultural Council.

Nominated for the award, Circumgyration: A Quartet can only display four photographic projects; each contains three works, and other documents on forty related works due to the restrictions of the venue at 1839 Little Gallery. This solo show presents Chen's photographic projects that were realized in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China after 2008. Initiated in 2001, Circumgyration: A Quartet abandoned the techniques of the snapshot and the documentary, which have been used in traditional photography. The project selected the campus of an elementary school as its setting and used large cameras incorporating natural and artificial light. He invited many school children to pose for this long-term project. At the first stage, Chen conducted the project for seven years at Teng-Kung Elementary School in Tamsui, where he taught. At the second stage, he conducted his posing project at Lao-Song Elementary School, in collaboration with its students and their parents. The artist first asked the students and their parents to narrate and describe the most memorable things in the past year or when they were fifth or sixth graders, paving the way to representing their pseudo-memories through photography. Then, he invited the students to re-enact the roles related to their or their parents' memories. The spatial design of this exhibition attempts to echo the meta-images of the memories of the adults and the children represented by the photographs by integrating school desks and chairs into the display of Chin-Pao Chen's works.