【访谈】Tristan Wu

Tristan Wu 是一位来自台湾的当代艺术家，在法国、台湾等艺术重镇备受瞩目。在此为您带来这位艺术家的访谈影片。

值此个展之际，我们特别录制了这段访谈影片。

您可以听到他畅谈创作背后的种种故事。😳

我们希望您先感受这位首次在日本举办个展的 Tristan Wu 的艺术世界，再细细品味他的作品，相信定能收获更深的乐趣。

※影片中附有日文翻译字幕，敬请观看！

【全文翻译】

关于此次首度在日本的展出

大家好，我是 Tristan。这次能在东京的 +Art Gallery 举办我在日本的首场个展，我感到非常高兴。本次展览将展出我的最新系列 Workers，以及我早期的世代之作、经典作品和我的大军。展览将以军用画布上的大尺幅作品为主。我想用我的「婴儿巨像」打动各位！一定会非常精彩。

创作这些作品的意义

正如接下来您将看到的，我希望您理解：在我看来、以我的方式，我的审美追求的是尽可能直接地呈现华丽、冲击力、力量与气势。对我而言，我的每一幅画都必须是一场盛景，是戏剧化而强烈的情感迸发，像机关枪一样。差不多就是这样。无论题材是什么。否则便毫无竞争力，只会泯然众人，对我而言也就失去了意义。

关于作品中的意象表达

我创作了许多故事，用来引导我的创作过程。最初是从一个角色开始的。他极其暴力、荒诞得令人难以置信，却又在某种意义上完全自由。我称他为「Hysterical Mitch」，描绘他愤怒的旅程。接着，我以他为原型创造了军队，赋予他在数量上的压倒性优势，从而将他神化。我真的画了非常多的军团。无数的军队！这几乎成了一种执念。而当我画得越多，某种系统或结构便愈发显现出来。于是我设想，这个世界本身或许就是我们世界的分身。在那个荒诞的世界里，一家巨型企业逐渐掌控一切，供应着维系这个世界存在所需的一切。这与我们的世界别无二致，与现实世界一模一样。因此，「Wu Tech Industries」便是我所创立的公司。

关于 The Workers（劳动者）系列

我热爱在同一个体的群聚与集合意象中所呈现的力量与气势之美。

它带给我一种宁静与安心，同时，只要色彩运用得当，便能化作壮丽而优美的风景。在这一点上，The Workers 是全新的世代，也是巢中蜂群——它们正是我的「Wu Tech Industries」。我赋予它们一种行进、移动乃至扩张般的行为姿态。正如它们背上那道纯白的横条所示，它们的功能尚属未知、尚未确定。然而它们始终处于我的「Wu Tech Industries」的框架之中。正如我希望在这个竞争的世界中提升自己的艺术存在感一样，我也希望让这家公司不断成长。

＜英文＞

The Show

Hi, I’m Tristan. I am very happy to have my very first solo exhibition in Japan, in Tokyo, at Gallery +Art! In this exhibition, I will be showing my latest series, Workers, as well as my previous generations, my classics, my grand armies! There will be mostly big formats on military canvas. I want to impress you with my baby colossus! It’ll be really cool!

The imagery

As you will be introduced into the show, I want you to understand that I display a sense of aestheticism that is, in my eyes and my own way, in the pursuit of splendidness, impact, strength and power, as straightforward as possible. For me, each of my paintings should be a spectacle, a theatrical and strong discharge of emotion, like a machine gun. Pretty much. Whatever the subject. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be competitive, it’d be blend, and it would make no sense to me.

The vessel

I’ve created lots of narratives to serve as guides to my process. It started off as just one character, so violent and so unbelievably absurd, but in a way completely free. I call him Hysterical Mitch and his journey of getting pissed off. Then I glorified him by creating armies in his image to give him a sort of a great advantage in numbers. I really painted a lot of armies. A lot of armies! It’s become an obsession. Then, the more I make them, the more some sort of system or structure turns out to be. So I kind of imagine it’s a whole world itself, a doppelganger to our world. And in this absurd world, a mega company comes to dominate and supply everything that world needs to exist. It’s just like our world really. It’s just like the real world. Hence, Wu Tech Industries, my foundation.

The workers

I love the aesthetic portrayal of strength and power in the image of mass and collectiveness of the same individual. It gives me some sort of comfort and a sense of security and in the same time, it’s a magnificent and beautiful landscape if I apply the colours right. The workers are the new generation of this regard and also the bees to the hive, my Wu Tech Industries. I give them a certain marching or moving or even behaving formation that tells expansion. Their functions, just as the blank white bars on their backs say, are unknown or undecided. They can be whatever they want to be, however, they are still under the framework of my Wu Tech Industries. I want to grow my company just as I want to grow my art presence in this competitive world.

【展览信息】

地址：涩谷 Scramble Square 商店&餐厅 14F

（〒150-0002 东京都涩谷区涩谷2丁目24−12）

交通：从 JR 涩谷站（山手线、湘南新宿线）、东京地铁涩谷站（副都心线、半藏门线、银座线）、东急线涩谷站（东横线、田园都市线）各站步行约30秒至1分钟。

作品可现场观赏并购买，展期内亦将于线上同步发售。

线上商店：https://pls-art-shop.com/

主办・策划：Plus Art Inc.（株式会社プラスアート）

艺术家：Tristan Wu