Date | 18-20 Jan. 2019

VIP Preview | 17 Jan. 14:00–21:00

Public Opening Hours | 18 Jan. 12:00–20:00
                     | 19 Jan. 12:00–19:00
                     | 20 Jan. 12:00–17:00

Venue | Taipei Dangdai

      | ESLITE GALLERY (Booth B14)

      | Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center,Hall 1(4F)

 

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ESLITE GALLERY is pleased to present “Jeng Jundian: Unknown Garden” in the first edition of Taipei Dangdai, featuring approximately 25 new sketches, figurative paintings and color-line paintings the artist made between 2016 and 2018.

 

“The city life is full of hustle and bustle, crowdedness, violence, pornography, pollution, as well as indifference, selfishness, snobbishness and hypocrisy. People forget the smell of earth and air. What is love? Everyone is at a loss, because it doesn’t exist anymore.” From color-line to figurative works, Jeng Jundian has demonstrated the stamina, determination and willpower of a marathoner by pressing on with painting for more than three decades. His deliberations on light, composition, spatiality slowly crystalize into classic themes such as portrait, still life and landscape. Elegant and affectionate, his strokes, lines and color divulge the poetics of everyday life. Lost in time but not in tide, Jeng pushes new frontiers at his own pace, while remaining steadfast in the belief of painting in an era when the contemporary art market is erratic and uncertain.

 

Wild plants by the roadside, wilted cut flowers, rocks in the yard… these are sceneries so mundane that they are often neglected by busy urbanites. However, they represent an opportunity for Jeng to seek his artistic voyage and to bring on a “poetic fight” against the current. In “Unknown Garden,” those who are willing to linger will be rewarded with a rare sense of tranquility, purified by the exuberance of life, bold spirit and unwavering resilience that shimmer deep in Jeng’s serene images.

 

 

展 期｜2019年1月18–20日

預 展｜1月17日（星期四）14:00-19:00

公眾開放時間｜1月18日（星期五）12:00-20:00
            ｜1月19日（星期六）12:00-19:00
            ｜1月20日（星期日）12:00-17:00

地 點｜台北當代藝術博覽會

     ｜誠品畫廊（展位B14）

     ｜台北南港展覽館1館4樓

 

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誠品畫廊將於2019年1月18日至1月20日為首屆台北當代藝術博覽會帶來鄭君殿個展「陌生的花園」，展出鄭君殿自2016年到2018年近二十五件色線畫、具象畫和素描新作。

 

「都市的喧鬧、擁擠、暴力、色情、公害，現代人的冷漠、自私、現實與鄉愿，令人忘卻了泥土與空氣的味道。什麼是愛，大家都感到迷惑，因為它已不復存在。」從色線畫到具象畫，三十多年來鄭君殿堅持在繪畫的過程中，進行考驗體力、耐力和精神的馬拉松。在這場馬拉松中，他大量思考光、構圖、空間的表現，用純淨的筆觸、線條和色彩，不疾不徐地在畫布上醞釀肖像、靜物與風景等經典題材，這是他對繪畫功力精益求精的自我挑戰，同時在求新求變求快的當代藝術市場之中，為繪畫意義所做的反骨堅持。

 

路旁的野生植物、枯萎的切花、院子裡的石頭，對於忙碌的都市人而言，這些生活中尋常可見因而視而不見的景物，都是鄭君殿用以追尋與探索藝術的藉口，也是他以「溫柔的野獸」之姿，對這急功近利的時代做出「詩意的攻擊」。進入「陌生的花園」，唯有願意靜下心來駐足凝視的人，方能體味到鄭君殿用時間沈澱出的靜謐畫面之中，那如同野草般不屈不撓的意志、迸發的精神力量和盎然的生機。