『 S T A T I C – 靜 止 間 』 L O B I 個 展
2014.1.18 - 3.02
在德國新表現主義藝術家 George Baselitz身上，遇見了靜止間的LOBI....
藝術家 格奧爾格‧巴賽利茲 是德國新表現主義的先驅者，他的畫作中有大量顛倒的人物、 風景和建築物，刻意忽略現實世界，狂野的畫面和凌亂的筆觸表現出強烈的情感。從他一系列粗曠巨大的木刻雕像中可以看出他的靈感源於部落藝術，尤其是來自布吉納法索的Lobi族雕像。
簡化的臉部五官、人物的姿態手勢、天然樸實的質感在在窺見部落藝術的蹤跡。
如同畢卡索一般，他自身也收藏許多非洲部落藝術品，「最基本的樣式就是永恆
」他寫道。因此他追求最純然的情感表現，拋去一切束縛，將部落藝術帶來的靈感揉合藝術家的自我直覺，打造出強烈視覺感的作品。
＊新表現主義
表現畫家的主觀精神，探取誇張、變形的手法，重視生命的活力，發揮生動激情潑辣的自我展現，此為表現主義畫家特殊的表現手法。表現主義強調鮮明表現個人主觀對世界的感受，而非對描寫對象形式的摹寫，在表現手法上以混亂、醜陋、扭曲的形式和色彩取代秩序、美感與均衡，藉由摧毀那些穩定與安全的事物，表現現實生活面的扭曲、恐懼，從感情、精神上去吸引觀者的注目。
LOBI族的雕像外型如同謎一般難以理解，體態充滿沉思味道，像是不受時間影響直挺挺的哨兵，是保護布吉納法索人民的雕像。LOBI族對人體外觀有非常獨特的主張，每一個雕像呈現不同的手勢和姿勢，其中有些有兩個甚至三個頭，一些女性雕像手臂下會抱著嬰兒，這些獨特的雕像代表特殊的才能或是超自然力量的具象化。他們認為有兩個頭部的雕像可以用兩倍的速度辨認出危險的徵兆並解除它，帶著嬰兒的雕像有帶給女人多產的力量，而向上舉起的手臂可以阻擋有害的力量進入。
高舉雙手的Y型人雕像最具代表性。刻意簡化人物形體、強調整體造型、人物體態僵直彷彿時間暫停不動，極富現代感。這種時間固定的靜態視覺反而表現出無法預知的動態，這樣的創作在安靜中帶著優雅，無疑讓形象更加鮮明，令人印象深刻。
The spirit of Lobi is seen in the creations of George Baselitz...
George Baselitz emerged as the pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism and was later recognized for his "upside-down" paintings, in which bodies, landscapes, and buildings are inverted within the picture plane, ignoring the realities of physical word. The wild appearance and disordered stroke expresses strong feelings. We can see the inspiration of tribal art from his a series of monumental and rough wooden statues.
The simple facial features, postures of sculptures and unadorned textures are the characteristic of tribal art. As Pablo Picasso, he collected lots of African tribal artworks. "The basic pattern remains unchanged," he writes, therefore he pursued the direct emotion expression. He discarded constraint, combined the stimulus of tribal art and self-intuition to create strong visual sense artworks.
*Neo-Expressionism
Expressing artists subjective ideas, using exaggerated and deformed techniques and stressing dynamic vitality are the Expressionism artist's creation skills. Expressionism stresses on personal feelings to the world instead of formal depiction. Expressionist use chaotic, ugly and distorted color and form to replace order, aesthetics and balance in their works. By destroying the stable and safe things to represents the fear and distort of reality which attract the viewer by emotions and mind.
Lobi Figures are the enigmatic, brooding sculpture that protect the Lobi people of Burkina Faso, like a timeless sentinels. Lobi people have special perspective on human body, each of these figures displays different gestures or poses, some of them may have two or even three heads, some female figures carry an infant under one arm. These unique features represent the particular talent or power of the spiritual being that they embody. A figure with two heads is twice as quick to recognize threat and to deal with it. A figure with an infant has the power to bring fertility to the women of the family. A figure holding one arm up blocks the entrance of malevolent power to their home.
The Y-shaped figure with raised arms is the most representative. The simple forms, pointed entire modeling and the stiff looks are full of modernism. Instead, this static visual expresses the unpredictable movement. Such creations are tranquil and elegant, undoubtedly, it is more impressive.
