Halley Cheng 鄭哈雷
Lui's Concocted Herbal Solution - The Categories of Metals and Stones 雷公炮製．金石部上, 2014
Pen, Charcoal, Copic Sketch, Color Pencil, Acrylic on Wood 原子筆、炭筆、油性科學毛筆、木顏色、壓克力木本
120 x 160 cm
Cheng learns Chinese painting when he was small, but his training was far from orthodox. Cheng keep incorporate images from Chinese paintings into his works after he graduated. After discovering...
Cheng learns Chinese painting when he was small, but his training was far from orthodox. Cheng keep incorporate images from Chinese paintings into his works after he graduated. After discovering the book "lui's solution" Cheng insist on imitate it's content regularly. Chinese painting is basically a practice of "copying from paper to paper". To Cheng this practice is a repay to the collective wisdom of Chinese painting.
"The Lui’s Solution" is the latest project of this series, it originated from an encyclopedia of more than 900 Chinese medicines from the Ming dynasty, under categories such as minerals, herbs, beast, grains and human. Cheng imitates and composes these images with dubious description from the internet.
Cheng uses lines to observe, depict and hence represent the artist’s inner-self. The line is a calm calculation by the artist. The line is a very calm calculation by the artist. Images and writing are being carefully put into the canvas to create associations, the artist continuously enlarge these conjunctions until the painting reaches its harmony.
鄭氏自小習中國畫，但其訓練非正統。畢業後鄭氏的作品都有借用中國畫圖像。自發現這本明朝中藥圖鑑以來鄭氏緊持臨摹圖鑑裡的圖像，中國畫講求“紙抄紙”傳統，對鄭氏來說這是一個償還的過程。
《雷公炮製》源自明朝一本中醫藥圖鑑，囊括礦物、草木、走獸、五穀、花果、人等不同種類共九百多種古代中藥。作者將這些中藥圖像作重新的臨摹與編排，輔以互聯網上對這些中藥不盡真實的文字描述。
鄭氏通過線條作為客體去觀察，描寫與再現物像。作者對線條的執著是一種冷靜的計算。作品處理的是繪畫的狀態，圖像與文字之間的關係，過程中作者不斷將這種關係拉開，直至達到一個圓滿的狀態。
"The Lui’s Solution" is the latest project of this series, it originated from an encyclopedia of more than 900 Chinese medicines from the Ming dynasty, under categories such as minerals, herbs, beast, grains and human. Cheng imitates and composes these images with dubious description from the internet.
Cheng uses lines to observe, depict and hence represent the artist’s inner-self. The line is a calm calculation by the artist. The line is a very calm calculation by the artist. Images and writing are being carefully put into the canvas to create associations, the artist continuously enlarge these conjunctions until the painting reaches its harmony.
鄭氏自小習中國畫，但其訓練非正統。畢業後鄭氏的作品都有借用中國畫圖像。自發現這本明朝中藥圖鑑以來鄭氏緊持臨摹圖鑑裡的圖像，中國畫講求“紙抄紙”傳統，對鄭氏來說這是一個償還的過程。
《雷公炮製》源自明朝一本中醫藥圖鑑，囊括礦物、草木、走獸、五穀、花果、人等不同種類共九百多種古代中藥。作者將這些中藥圖像作重新的臨摹與編排，輔以互聯網上對這些中藥不盡真實的文字描述。
鄭氏通過線條作為客體去觀察，描寫與再現物像。作者對線條的執著是一種冷靜的計算。作品處理的是繪畫的狀態，圖像與文字之間的關係，過程中作者不斷將這種關係拉開，直至達到一個圓滿的狀態。