剧照
文/谢曹闽


通过最近的一系列绘画，我正在寻找在帆布上模拟荧屏图像的方法；在帆布上制作剧照
我并不在意图像具体意义的表达
我所关注的是作画的程序本身：通过抽离图像本身的明确义指， 使作画作为模拟显现其自身
我选择“模拟”这一久远的绘画手段是基于我对当代视觉经验的思考
荧屏，这一人造之物，通过模拟我们的视觉经验正逐渐代替我们对世界的真实体验
它代表着这一时代视觉经验的一切特性
我用绘画模拟荧屏
模拟不仅只是转换图像，它而且是虚拟和替代, 我的画面是一幅幅虚拟的剧照
它们是时间流中静止的图像
是具体表达时间之死亡，它表现着无的沈默。真实在其中隐退， 而欲望通过幻想因此诞生




ON PAINTING
- XIE Caomin


Painting is a question: painting is not an answer. Painting is a process, a method, an exercise.

Paint on canvas no longer represents the creation of artist,s eye. The sight of image on my canvas represents digital eye. It is the dialogue among and between naked eye and electronic eye - this is what is important.

I call each piece in my collection Still Image. I reveal the artificial, simulated and temporal nature of digital media. Pictures from television, video, computers, or other electronic media interlace with paint to make my work. I mimic the television screen. Do not look for meaning within the individual piece, but rather, explore the process of the dialogue I am seeking: static vs. dynamic, retinal vs. digital and continuing vs. disrupting…

Painting is method. I am more interested in thinking about images rather than creating images. Images are all around us, I collect them and combine them and in the process, I make art.