艺术家简介 About the artist
阿比查邦·韦拉斯塔古(1970年生)出生于泰国曼谷,成长于泰国东北部的孔敬,曾入读孔敬大学主修建筑,其后留学美国芝加哥艺术学院学习电影制作并取得硕士学位,他从1994年开始制作电影和录像短片,成为泰国独立电影制作人。阿比查邦的电影和艺术之间本质上并无太大的差异,政治和社会问题总是以一种隐晦的、个人化的方式提出,并隐藏在他神秘而诗意的艺术语言中。通过对时间和光线的掌控,对演员的调度,阿比查邦为观众搭建了一座纤弱的桥梁,让他们在真实与神话、个人与集体、灵与肉之间穿行,通过非传统的叙事结构邀请观众进入他个人的意识世界,里面满是记忆、神话、他的梦境和渴望。阿比查邦曾在多地举办个展,包括台北市立美术馆(2019)、美国俄克拉荷马城市艺术博物馆(2018)、马尼拉当代艺术设计博物馆(2017)、伦敦泰特现代美术馆(2016)、西班牙第53届希洪国际电影节(2015)等。其群展包括第58届威尼斯双年展(2019)、北京红砖美术馆(2018)、光州双年展( 2018)、第14届里昂双年展(2017)、第20届悉尼双年展(2016)、琦玉三年展(2016)、美国卡蒂斯特艺术基金会(2015)、香港Para Site(2015)等。
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970) was born in Bangkok, raised in Khon Kaen. He studied architecture at Khon Kaen University and later received an MFA in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He started making films and videos in 1994 and has become an independent film producer in Thailand. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films and artworks are essentially the same. The political and the social are always alluded to, playing integral parts in his mysterious and poetic artistic language. By working chiefly on time and light, and by working meticulously with actors, Weerasethakul builds a delicate bridge for the audience, and allows them to travel through the real and the mythical, the individual and the collective, the spiritual and the somatic, entering via unorthodox narratives a rich consciousness, where one finds the artist’s memories, mythologies, dreams and desires. Weerasethakul has held solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (2019), Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma (2018), the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila (2017), Tate Modern, London (2016), and 53rd Gijón International Film Festival, Spain (2015), amongst others. Recent group exhibitions include 58th Venice Biennale, Venice (2019), Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2018), Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2018), 14th Lyon Biennale, Lyon (2017), 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016), Saitama Triennale, Saitama (2016), Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2015) and Para Site, Hong Kong (2015).