《身體閱讀 - 朱芳毅個展》

朱芳毅現為專業當代藝術家，聯合國教科文組織國際陶藝學會會員(IAC)，國立臺南藝術大學材質創作與設計系專任講師。2008年獲得世界四大陶藝雙年展之一的臺灣國際陶藝雙年展首獎大獎，同年也入選日本美濃國際陶藝三年展，2011年更獲得韓國世界陶藝雙年展評審特別獎。而後以形式多變的物件裝置系列風格，陸續獲獎入圍台北美術獎、高雄美術獎…等各獎項，在國內外展覽、獲獎無數。

在創作上透過對自身生活、時代背景和文化認知的觀察，以物件雕塑的平面裝置形式關注深究於人的物件記憶與夢境、物件真實與擬仿之間的曖昧形象和人身體本能對圖像的閱讀想像…等相關議題。

在朱芳毅的「身體閱讀」中探討著人身體對圖像的本能閱讀。人身體對圖像認知已存在許久，
從遠古時代，人類就運用圖像來做為與萬物溝通的媒介，長久以來在其身體中一直流動著圖像辨識、解讀和想像的血液，身體性的感受總在情感與情境的連動中產生；而身體的閱讀由體內的深層感受以及生命的身體條件中「生長」出來，一種由身體內在本能意識轉為思緒上的解讀，
而解讀之所以可能，都是經由感覺、意識、情緒、情感等身體性的歷練而來。

所以人可以閱讀與想像圖像的能力一直存在，只是圖像所表現的形式與存在的意義卻都受制於社會的規範與制約，讓人們認知圖像的範圍越來越制式和狹隘，甚至已失去對圖像感動與想像的能力。希望透過閱讀圖像讓人可以意識到隱藏在身體深處的閱讀本能。

真善美畫廊很榮幸與這位傑出的當代藝術工作者合作，朱芳毅最新個展《身體閱讀》將於2017/6/3至7/1隆重舉行，歡迎所有喜愛藝術的朋友們蒞臨參觀！

Instinctive Reading: Chu, Fang-Yi Solo Exhibition

Introduction
The crux of reading images lies not so much in our understanding of their implications as in our instinctive poetic imagination about them.

In addition to being a professional contemporary artist and a member of UNESCO International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), Fang-Yi Chu teaches as a lecturer in the Department of Material Arts and Design, Tainan National University of the Arts. He was the first-prize winner of the 2008 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, one of the four most prestigious ceramics biennales in the world, and was nominated for the International Ceramics Competition Mino, Japan in the same year. He also won the Special Jury Award of the World Ceramic Biennale Korea in 2011, and has been successively bestowed or nominated for numerous art prizes such as Taipei Arts Awards and Kaohsiung Arts Awards with his creative series of multifaceted object installations constantly displayed in domestic and international exhibitions.

Based on the observations on his quotidian existence, cultural ideology, and the zeitgeist of his times, the artist adopts the form of sculpture-like object installation to address the issues concerning the blurred boundaries between memories and dreams, between originals and simulacra, as well as the instinctive imagination about images.

This exhibition revolves around human beings’ instinctive reading about images. Human recognition of images dawned long time ago, and human beings have utilized images as the media for communication since remote antiquity. The blood of recognizing, interpreting and imagining images has run in human bodies all along the human history. Corporeal sensations are produced by the interlinkage between sentiments and circumstances, while instinctive reading “grows” from individuals’ innermost feelings and the physical conditions of living beings. On a more specific basis, instinctive reading is the result of transformation from physical instinctive drive into mind-based interpretation, and individuals’ corporeal experiences such as senses, consciousness and emotions make such kind of interpretation possible.

Accordingly, human beings have possessed the abilities to read and imagine images, only to find that images’ presentation forms and raisons d’être have been subjected to social norms and regulations. The scope of people’s understanding about images is ergo getting narrower as a mere formality due to such a restriction, which has rendered people impotent to feel visceral thrills and find associations in images. By virtue of reading images, the artist expects to make the viewers aware of the reading instinct lying dormant in the human body.

The Kalos Gallery is deeply honored to collaborate with Fang-Yi Chu, a contemporary artist par excellence, on his latest solo exhibition Instinctive Reading. We cordially invite all devoted art buffs to this elaborately organized exhibition scheduled to be on view from 3 June to 1 July 2017.