Karen Kaapcke |艺术与古典音乐的合作 The harmony of art and classical music
Danse Macabre by Giacomo Borlone. Photo: gettyimages.
A harp chimes midnight and a sinister tremble from the violin follows a spontaneous burst of musical notes signal the dead to rise up for a wicked waltz of death. Taking cues of requiem and poetic death, Camille Saint-Saens’s orchestral piece, Danse Macabre was inspired by the painting of the same name by Giacomo Borlone. By pairing the two works together, an unexpected change of thought manifests. An amplified experience that is playful yet villainous. A sentiment not felt in the silence of viewing.
午夜的竖琴鸣响，小提琴伴随着自然的音响迸发出颤抖的声音，它预示着死者的复活，开始为邪恶的华尔兹做准备。Camille Saint-Saens的管弦乐队作品 “Danse Macabre” 蕴涵着安魂曲和诗意的死亡。它的灵感来自Giacomo Borlone的同名画作。通过将这两部作品结合在一起，一种意料之外的思想变化显现出来。这种放大之后的体验既值得玩味又暗含邪恶，这种情绪无法在沉默的观赏中得到体会。
In such instances, the pairing of art and music has become an optional part of many art experiences today. Among others, Pianist Alan Moverman and artist Karen Kaapcke would come together to build on the idea of creating art inspired by famous tunes of classical music to build a dialogue around the exploration of a composer’s life stages represented through their work. At the end of their 2-year collaboration in 2018, they would display the paintings sequentially, accompanied by a piano by Alan Moverman that would perform paired selections of music from composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti, as well as some jazz musicians in their special exhibition Life Stages: A Collaboration.
在这种情况下，艺术与音乐的结合已成为当今许多艺术体验的组成部分。钢琴家Alan Moverman和艺术家Karen Kaapcke将齐聚一堂，以古典音乐的著名旋律为灵感创作艺术。这场对话的建立探讨了作曲家通过其作品所代表的生活阶段。2018年，在为期2年的合作结束时，他们将按顺序展示这些画作，并伴以Alan Moverman的钢琴演奏。他在这场名为：“生命阶段：一场合作”的特别展览中将演奏巴赫，贝多芬，利盖蒂还有一些爵士音乐家的精选音乐。
About the Artist
关于艺术家
Karen Kaapcke is an American painter based in New York. Her main body of work is made up of figurative paintings that are poetic and without boundaries. She labels her style as, “Experiential Realism,” where the experience builds a narrative that is not only physical or psychological but also emotional and resonant. By making the artistic technique a response to her experiences she is able to bring about a phenomenon in which the work blurs the boundary between strict divisions of time, subjectivity, and objectivity. This phenomenon builds into a question or dialogue that turns the painting to be viewed as the edge where the traditions of painting can both further open or further close the narrative.
Karen Kaapcke是一位驻纽约的美国画家。她的具象画作品富有诗意，不受约束。她将自己的风格标记为“体验式现实主义”，在这种体验中，叙事不仅建立在生理或心理上，而且在情感和共鸣上都得到了体现。Karen通过艺术的技巧展现她曾经的经历，使她的作品形成了一种现象，即模糊了时间的主观性和客观性的严格界限。这种现象也形成了一个问题或对话，使她的作品在绘画的传统中被视为边缘，可以进一步开启或关闭叙事。
The premise of the collaboration was not to improve but rather to complement. In line with the theme of stages in life, Kaapcke ponders about the quality of time, where she would insert into 10 thought-provoking paintings the experiential emotions at each moment of a composer’s life: youth, maturity, and old age. Let’s take a brief look at a few of the works below:
合作的前提不是改善而是互补。与生活阶段的主题相呼应，Kaapcke思考时间的质量，在那里她将在作曲家一生的每个时刻（青年，成熟和老年）插入十幅发人深省的绘画中。让我们简要看一下下面的一些作品：
“Yes, there’s a dialogue with the music. But the music, obviously, can stand on its own, and my paintings should stand on their own, apart from the music. Abstract manifestations of music don’t go far enough, not to diminish abstraction. The paintings aren’t reactive, they are really evolved.”
“是的，音乐之间存在对话。但是，音乐显然可以在价值上独立，我的画作也应该独立于音乐之外。我并不是要贬低抽象，但是音乐的抽象表现还远远不够。这些画不是反应性的，它们是真正演变的。”
- 卡伦·卡普克 Karen Kaapcke
Tango Diptych: Diurne/Nocturne by Karen Kaapcke. Oil on Linen. 80x80cm.
The two works, Tango Diptych: Diurne/Nocturne are based on the two compositions by Astor Piazzolla’s Le Grande Tango and Adios Nonino. It portrays the stage of life where one begins to discover sexuality and also tries to capture the stark contrast of happiness and sadness. Taking from the composer’s intent in Le Grande Tango, movement is a key part of the music which is made up of three sections. The piano and cello form a dialogue in a free and singing manner, eventually charging into rapid musical scales that are passionate and jubilant.
Tango Diptych: Diurne/Nocturne 这两个艺术作品是基于Astor Piazzolla的Le Grande Tango和Adios Nonino的两个作品。它展现了人们开始发现性的生活阶段，描绘了人们于此试图获得欢乐和悲伤的鲜明对比。从作曲家对Le Grande Tango的意图出发，运动的状态是音乐的关键部分，它由三个部分组成。钢琴和大提琴以自由和歌唱的方式进行对话，最终融入热情而欢快的音乐音阶。