展覽時間：2015/03/28-05/17
展覽地點：台北當代藝術館 MOCA Taipei
門票收費：50元
官方網展：http://goo.gl/d7ceAK
展覽介紹：
2001年，文建會推動「鐵道藝術網路計畫」，游文富以退役飛官的特殊經歷和羽毛創作的計畫提案，獲選成為第一批進駐「20號倉庫」的新秀藝術家，從此踏上了專業創作的另一生涯旅程。15年來，游文富活用羽毛和竹子這兩種鄉土自然素材，創造了包括平面、立體、空間裝置、環境藝術、地景藝術等不同類型而獨具個人風格特色的作品；除了獨立自主的創作之外，歷年應邀於國內外不同場合駐地創作之例，含括了國內的澎湖國際地景藝術節、台北藝術大學花卉藝術節、台北國際花卉博覽會、景美人權園區、美國舊金山賀德蘭藝術中心(Headlands Center for the Arts)、紐約ISCP(International Studio&Curatorial Program)、法國巴黎西堤藝術村(Cite des Arts)、澳洲國王島文化中心(King Island Culture Centre)、澳洲薩拉曼卡藝術中心(Salamaca Arts Centre)…等。
｢自然的知覺｣是游文富創作的核心美學。他認為：人，如同野生動物一般，當心思純淨不受干擾時，對於環境即有高度的敏銳性。科技高度發展的今日，一切事物強調感官激發與人性互動，但人們的美感直覺卻反而逐漸消彌殆盡。為此，游文富訴諸竹與羽毛等自然媒材，創造一種人們感覺熟悉，卻也充滿新意和想像餘地的藝術裝置或環境景觀，鼓勵觀眾透過靜心觀看，乃至於行動參與，去發掘和捕捉，包括氣流、風聲、光陰、時間等飄渺不定的事物，去感受和體驗生活空間或自然環境中，一些剎那即逝的吉光片羽和美感訊息。
本次在當代館的個展，以【兩个习】為名，將文字學中以部首組合衍生字形／字義的概念，關連到游文富本身以「竹」、「羽」這兩種鄉土媒材，發展創作出多樣性當代藝術的志業。此種拆解、重組的概念，在本次展出作品名稱和材料形構之間也有所對應，如：戶外的大型裝置<築 >（竹木凡工）、多媒體裝置 <知音> (矢口立日)、懸吊裝置 <雲>（雨云）…等。本展除了呼應當代館建築戶外場景和室內空間的現地裝置作品之外，也包括了融合中國水墨山水和各國鈔票人像的「羽毛畫」作品系列，這些作品除了展現藝術的種種創意和巧思之外，實際也反映了藝術家不同時期的生活。
Growing up around his family’s bamboo crafts business, Wen-fu Yu acquired knowledge of traditional craftsmanship at young age. He was born in 1968 in Douliu Yunlin County and moved with his parents to Zhushan in Nantou County. Besides bamboo craft, he also developed strong interest in painting, calligraphy and seal carving. As a young adult, Yu chose to enter a military academy to share financial burdens of his parents, whose business had now declined. After graduating from the Air Force Academy, he embarked on a career as a flying officer, an enviable and well-respected job at the time. However, his passion for art did not dwindle. He eventually decided to retire from the air force nine years later only to pursue a creative life of crafts and art-making, which he had only been able to do during his free time previously.
In 2001, Wen-fu Yu ’s feather art project was chosen, partially due to his special background as a former air force pilot, by Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs for the Art Network of Railway Warehouses program. He thus became one of the first artists in residency at Railway Warehouse No. 20, marking the beginning of his new career as an artist. In the past 15 years, Wen-fu Yu has created numerous artworks using natural materials, mainly feathers and bamboo. He has produced a wide range of art, including two- and three-dimensional works, site-specific installations and environmental and land art. Diverse as Yu’s works may seem individually, they speak of a visual language as a whole that is uniquely his. He has also been commissioned or invited to various artist residency programs by Taiwanese and international organizations, such as the Penghu International Earth Art Festival, Flower Arts Festival of Taipei National University of The Arts, Taipei International Flora Exposition, Jing-Mei Human Rights Memorial and Cultural Park, Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn NY, Cite des Arts in Paris, as well as King Island Culture Centre and Salamaca Arts Centre in Australia.
“Natural Sensitivity” represents the fundamental aesthetics of Wen-fu Yu ’s work. According to him, human beings, much like wild animals, gain the sharpest sensitivity to the environments when we reach an undisturbed and pure state of mind. Unfortunately, the advancement of technology has led to a society that overemphasizes sensational stimulation and interpersonal interaction, which directly or indirectly causes the aesthetic intuition of human being to vanish rapidly. In response, Wen-fu Yu rests on natural materials such as bamboo and feathers as his media to create installations and environmental art. His work is often familiar while simultaneously refreshing and allowing room for imagination. It encourages the audience to calm down and observe, or take a step further to actively discover and grasp some of the most transient yet inspirational moments and elements of our surroundings, such as the airflow, the sound of the wind and time.
The Chinese title of this exhibition literally reads “two pieces of study” (兩个习). It is a tactful play on the written form of bamboo and feather in Chinese but also the artistic strategy of the artist. Bamboo (竹) in written Chinese consists of two “个,“ meaning “pieces” in simplified Chinese; while feather(羽) constitutes two “习,” meaning “studies” in simplified Chinese. By deconstructing and recomposing the characters, the exhibition aims to emphasize Wen-fu Yu ’s approach where he skillfully transforms two of the most common raw materials offered by nature into objects of beauty and bestow them with new meanings. The titles of several works on display also correlate to the same tactics of translating radicals or parts of written Chinese characters into actual choices of materials for making art. For instance, Build, a large-scale outdoor installation, uses bamboo and wood to form a structure, a near literal materialization of the written form of “build”(築) that comprises four parts; namely, bamboo(竹), wood(木), commonplace (凡), labor(工). The same decoding process is taken for the creation of the other two works: the multimedia piece, Bosom Friend, 知音, formed with矢(arrow), 口(entrance), 立(withstand) and 日(sun), and the installation Cloud(雲), which may be deciphered as 雨(cloud) and 云 (speak), literally “cloud speaks.” These installations are mindfully placed to accentuate the architecture and environment of the museum. Also featured in the exhibit is a series of “feather paintings” that combines Chinese ink landscape painting with the imagery of banknotes. Abounding with creativity and ingenuity, each of Yu’s works embodies experiences and thoughts from different stages of his life. Viewed en masse, they provide a panoramic examination and trajectory of Wen-fu Yu ’s creative practice.
關於藝術家：
游文富，1968年生於雲林斗六，後隨父母遷居南投竹山，因家中從事竹工藝事業，自幼即耳濡目染傳統手做工藝，並對繪畫、書法、金石等各種藝術產生濃厚興趣。後來成為空軍的他，並未抹煞他從小茁長的創作衝動和藝術嚮往，反而驅使他在退役後，全心投入了藝術創作活動。
Growing up around his family’s bamboo crafts business, Wen-fu Yu acquired knowledge of traditional craftsmanship at young age. He was born in 1968 in Douliu Yunlin County and moved with his parents to Zhushan in Nantou County. Besides bamboo craft, he also developed strong interest in painting, calligraphy and seal carving. Yu eventually decided to retire from the air force nine years to pursue a creative life of crafts and art-making.