BANK | 林科个展：天空绘画 Lin Ke solo show: Sky Paintings 8月10日开幕

即将展出 Upcoming

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天空绘画 

Sky Paintings

林科 

Linkewaco

2019年8月10日-9月10日

开幕式/Opening：8月10日（周六）晚 16：00-18：00, 10th Aug(Sat)

地点/Venue：上海市安福路298弄2号楼底楼 

Basement, No.2, Lane 298, An Fu Road, Shanghai

BANK荣幸呈现艺术家林科于空间的第二次个展，《天空绘画》。此次个展呈现了林科一如既往沉醉于计算机时代下的数码制作，虚拟空间与现实之间模糊边界。在天空绘画中，林科假借了似乎传统的水彩作品，电子图像和影像作品来探索这个一微妙地带。

一段时间以来，夜间静谧地降临前，艺术家会习惯在睡前画一张水彩。林科从真实生活，电脑及杂志图像中积累了大量关于宗教人物，朋友和波普文化名人的图像。为了探索这些手绘图像背后本质及图像意义，林科开始了一系列演绎和分析，如一个法医侦探，他将图像扫描，将他们分层。在《天空绘画》中，他将经由水彩产生的图像电子化，打印再造在各种材料之上。它们几近历经迁徙的状态，被转曲、喷绘、数码印刷等方式出现在各种透明材料媒介上，林科的实践过程提出了一些疑问，关于艺术的媒介，图像的产生，以及展示艺术的本能，种种重要性及其本质。艺术家写道：

“我从虚空中采集图像（水彩）再把虚拟（Photoshop绘画）再到 TIF，再到空间中的事物，这是这个展览作品中的大的关系。甚至还有元图像背后的图像，是我画水彩的时候的观看图像，一些模糊的，刺激我的任何的头像，然后我对着这样的图像画水彩肖像画，像在虚空之中抄写。虚空采集。灵感来自藏传佛教里的伏藏师。天空出现一行字，伏藏师可以看见，并把它抄写下来。”

如他所言，如藏传佛教的神秘主义者，观望天空，占卜星象。艺术家亦凝视天空，试图内省，观看自身和周遭。

空间的物理意义已不复存在，图像的真实性也变得毫无必要。故在展览中的图像，林科可视化了一个想象中的无形态的世界，神仙所居之地。天空的虚无，才孕育了大地的真相。这一切，都促使艺术家关注到这缘起的虚无，正如我们日常相伴却不胜存在的虚拟世界，如电磁场，如光影般。

从2010年开始, 林科将自己变成自己的实验对象，投身于计算机时代的行为艺术之中。林科将笔记本电脑作为其艺术工作室，从计算机软件和互联网中提取素材作为其艺术作品的素材与形式。日常互联网的探索和对应用软件的操作催生出他的艺术创作和自画像。他使用屏幕截图和屏幕录制软件记录操作行为和概念图像。他主要的作品形式为装置、图像、声音、文字、视频和电脑绘画。

林科2017年入围香港巴塞尔宝马艺术之旅，荣获2014年OCAT-皮埃尔·于贝尔奖与2015第九届AAC艺术中国年度青年艺术家大奖。他的作品曾在 OCAT当代艺术中心，ZKM媒体艺术中心，Folkwang博物馆，东京都现代美术馆，民生美术馆, 上海当代艺术博物馆，何香凝美术馆，克利夫兰当代艺术博物馆，曼切斯特华人当代艺术中心,伯明翰 Ikon Gallery等艺术机构展出。

BANK is delighted to announce artist, Lin Ke’s second solo show with the gallery, Sky Painting. This show presents the artist’s continued fascination with the ever blurring boundaries between the digitally manufactured, virtual spaces of our computer age and traditional reality. In Sky Painting Lin posits a series of seemingly conventional watercolor works, digital images and video works as vehicles for exploring this tenuous terrain.  

Over the past few years, the artist has returned to his artistic roots by painting a watercolor each night before going to sleep. Referencing real life, as well as computer and magazine images, Lin amassed a large collection of works that depict various religious figures, friends and pop cultural celebrities. In search of the essence or pictorial significance behind these hand-painted images Lin then began a process of deduction and analysis by scanning the images and breaking them into layered elements, almost like a forensic detective. In Sky Painting he re-presents the digitized remains of these watercolors as reconstituted prints on various surfaces. Through the long journey of analysis, conversion, and re-production Lin Ke’s practice questions the import and essence of artistic medium, image making, as well as the impulse to exhibit art. The artist writes:

“From Void to Solid (Watercolor) to Virtual (photoshop Painting) to TIF and then to object in the space - the context of the exhibition of the work. There is even an image behind the meta-image, which is what I look at when I paint watercolors. I see some fuzzy, stimulating images of a head, and then I draw a watercolor portrait of such an image, like copying in the void. I am inspired by the Tibetan Buddhism Fuzang. A line of texts would appear in the sky, and Fuzang would see it and write it down.” 

Inspired by the mystics of Tibetan Buddhism who gazed at the sky for divinatory revelations Lin Ke equates the sky with the image as a muse for introspection- a mirror onto himself and his surroundings.

In a space where physicality no longer exists, resemblance and authenticity ultimately lose their substance. So in the remains of the images presented in the exhibition Lin creates a visual language imbued with the celestial inhabitants of the sky, an immaterial universe, a formless sky world. Conversely, the void of the sky like that of the image unveils truths about the earth, inspiring the artist to examine the immaterial substances that permeate our every day spaces, from electromagnetic fields to rays of light.

Since 2010, Lin Ke has turned his attention to the behavioral science of the computer age by making himself his own Guinea pig. Converting his laptop into a studio, Lin extracts material from computer software and the Internet as the fodder and form of his art. The mundane act of exploring the vicissitudes of the world wide web and various applications becomes the catalyst for art making and self-portraiture. He records operational behavior and conceptual images by using screenshots and screen recording software. His work takes the form of installation, image, sound, text, video and computer painting.

Lin Ke has gained major critical acclaim for his work having won the OCAT - Pierre Huber Art Prize in 2014, and the Chinese Youth Artist Award of the 9th AAC Art 2015. His work was shortlisted for the BMW Art Journey at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017 and has been shown at ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai；The Front Triennial, MoCA Cleveland；OCAT, Shanghai, Shanghai Biennial, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, among other prestigious venues.  His work is in the collection of  M+ Museum, HK; New World Foundation, Beijing;  K11 Art Foundation, among others.

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