【訪談】Tristan Wu

Tristan Wu 是一位來自台灣的當代藝術家，在法國、台灣等藝術重鎮備受矚目。在此為您帶來這位藝術家的訪談影片。

值此個展之際，我們特別錄製了這段訪談影片。

您可以聽到他暢談創作背後的種種故事。😳

我們希望您先感受這位首次在日本舉辦個展的 Tristan Wu 的藝術世界，再細細品味他的作品，相信定能收穫更深的樂趣。

※影片中附有日文翻譯字幕，敬請觀看！

【全文翻譯】

關於此次首度在日本的展出

大家好，我是 Tristan。這次能在東京的 +Art Gallery 舉辦我在日本的首場個展，我感到非常高興。本次展覽將展出我的最新系列 Workers，以及我早期的世代之作、經典作品與我的大軍。展覽將以軍用畫布上的大尺幅作品為主。我想用我的「嬰兒巨像」打動各位！一定會非常精彩。

創作這些作品的意義

正如接下來您將看到的，我希望您理解：在我看來、以我的方式，我的審美追求的是盡可能直接地呈現華麗、衝擊力、力量與氣勢。對我而言，我的每一幅畫都必須是一場盛景，是戲劇化而強烈的情感迸發，像機關槍一樣。差不多就是這樣。無論題材是什麼。否則便毫無競爭力，只會泯然眾人，對我而言也就失去了意義。

關於作品中的意象表達

我創作了許多故事，用來引導我的創作過程。最初是從一個角色開始的。他極其暴力、荒誕得令人難以置信，卻又在某種意義上完全自由。我稱他為「Hysterical Mitch」，描繪他憤怒的旅程。接著，我以他為原型創造了軍隊，賦予他在數量上的壓倒性優勢，從而將他神化。我真的畫了非常多的軍團。無數的軍隊！這幾乎成了一種執念。而當我畫得越多，某種系統或結構便愈發顯現出來。於是我設想，這個世界本身或許就是我們世界的分身。在那個荒誕的世界裡，一家巨型企業逐漸掌控一切，供應著維繫這個世界存在所需的一切。這與我們的世界別無二致，與現實世界一模一樣。因此，「Wu Tech Industries」便是我所創立的公司。

關於 The Workers（勞動者）系列

我熱愛在同一個體的群聚與集合意象中所呈現的力量與氣勢之美。

它帶給我一種寧靜與安心，同時，只要色彩運用得當，便能化作壯麗而優美的風景。在這一點上，The Workers 是全新的世代，也是巢中蜂群——它們正是我的「Wu Tech Industries」。我賦予它們一種行進、移動乃至擴張般的行為姿態。正如它們背上那道純白的橫條所示，它們的功能尚屬未知、尚未確定。然而它們始終處於我的「Wu Tech Industries」的框架之中。正如我希望在這個競爭的世界中提升自己的藝術存在感一樣，我也希望讓這家公司不斷成長。

＜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.

【展覽資訊】

地址：澀谷 Scramble Square 商店&餐廳 14F

（〒150-0002 東京都澀谷區澀谷2丁目24−12）

交通：從 JR 澀谷站（山手線、湘南新宿線）、東京地鐵澀谷站（副都心線、半藏門線、銀座線）、東急線澀谷站（東橫線、田園都市線）各站步行約30秒至1分鐘。

作品可現場觀賞並購買，展期內亦將於線上同步發售。

線上商店：https://pls-art-shop.com/

主辦・策劃：Plus Art Inc.（株式会社プラスアート）

藝術家：Tristan Wu