David Thomas: Impermanences

BACKGROUND: The research was manifest as an exhibition of new paintings and photopaintings. I was invited to exhibit this body of work at Minus Space New York USA, a gallery of international reputation curated by Matthew Deleget and Rosanna Martinez. The gallery has a focus on contemporary international reductive painting and enables my researches to be seen in an international context. This work continues my research into monochrome painting, colour and gesture. This exhibition is informed by understandings of "the real" (matter and imagery) and questions ideas of abstract purity, formalism and materiality. It is informed by a discussion between eastern and western art movements of Concrete Art , Mono Ha and philosophy regarding ideas of, sympathy, simplicity and complexity informed also by Bergson's concept of the composite and duration. SIGNIFICANCE: Through my use of large scale photography, pictorial structure, wall painting, the materiality of paint, gesture, scale, the work asks the viewers to engage with discovery, fragility, transience, memory. Through juxtaposition and layering the work explores new ways to show how gesture, scale and colour can generate a sense of time, the felt and the known and how through timing enables experiences of attentive looking/ intimacy /interiority and exteriority /materiality/ surprise to be considered over/in time and space.
CONTRUBUTION: In exploring the relationship of how painting manifests actual sensation and photography represents time past, the research has produced original artworks. These bring into focus new uses of the application of juxtapositions of scale, layering and colour. New combinations of abstraction and photography create complex content in simple form. Peer Review: The work was reviewed in NY based Musee magazine. http://museemagazine.com/culture/culture/art-out/david.

研究背景：本研究以全新绘画与摄影绘画作品展的形式呈现。本人受邀于美国纽约Minus Space画廊（由Matthew Deleget与Rosanna Martinez策展，兼具国际声望的专业画廊）展出该系列作品。该画廊专注于当代国际减约绘画领域，为本人的研究提供了国际化的展示平台。本次创作延续了本人对单色绘画（monochrome painting）、色彩与表现手法的探索。本次展览基于对"真实"（物质与意象）的理解，对抽象纯粹性、形式主义与物质性的概念提出质疑，其创作灵感源自具体艺术（Concrete Art）、物派（Mono Ha）等东西方艺术运动间的对话，以及关于共情、简约与繁复的哲学思考，同时融入了柏格森（Bergson）提出的复合与绵延概念。
研究意义：本研究借助大幅摄影、画面结构、墙体绘画、颜料的物质属性、表现手法与尺寸规模，引导观者直面探索、脆弱性、转瞬即逝与记忆。通过并置与分层手法，作品探索了全新的展示路径，以展现表现手法、尺寸与色彩如何营造时间感知、感性体验与认知体悟，并探讨如何通过时序把控，在时空维度中审视沉浸式凝视、亲密感、内在性与外在性、物质性与惊喜感等多元体验。
研究贡献：在探索绘画如何呈现真实感知与摄影如何记录过往时间的关系过程中，本研究产出了原创艺术作品。这些作品聚焦于尺寸并置、分层与色彩应用的全新创作手法。抽象艺术与摄影的全新融合，以简洁形式承载了复杂的内涵。
同行评议：该作品曾刊载于纽约《Musee》杂志，相关评论可见：http://museemagazine.com/culture/culture/art-out/david.