奥斯卡主视觉海报背后的艺术家们｜The Artists behind the 93rd Oscars Campaign Art
"What do movies mean to you?”
电影对你而言意味着什么？
This is the question set out by the art campaign of this year’s annual Oscars ceremony. Under the tagline “Bring Your Movie Love,” the campaign brings together seven artists from different corners of the world in a celebration of film as a method of escapism, connection, education, inspiration, and storytelling. Artists Temi Coker, Petra Eriksson, Magnus Voll Mathiassen (MvM), Michelle Robinson, Karan Singh, Victoria Villasana, and Shawna X were tasked with reinterpreting the iconic Oscar statue with the aforementioned question.
这是今年奥斯卡提出的命题。今年的颁奖礼以“带着对电影的热爱”为口号，汇集了来自世界各地的七位艺术家。将电影作为逃离、连结、教育、灵感和讲述故事的一种方式来举办这场盛典。艺术家Temi Coker，Petra Eriksson，Magnus Voll Mathiassen（MvM），Michelle Robinson，Karan Singh，Victoria Villasana和Shawna X的任务则是以上面的这些主题来重新呈现经典的奥斯卡小金人。
Most notable in this year’s campaign is the vibrant colors used by the artists as well as their range of techniques which include, illustration, motion design, painting, photography, and textile art. From racial representation to the dichotomy of things, each artist explores an array of themes brought about by their personal experiences and emotions.
在今年的主视觉系列中，最引人注目的是艺术家们使用了鲜艳的色彩以及多样的技术表达，包括插图，动态设计，绘画，摄影和纺织艺术。从种族文化到二元对立，每位艺术家都在探索他们由个人经历和情感带来的一系列主题。
1. Temi Coker
Image:© 2021 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Nigerian artist Temi Coker uses a mix of vibrant colors and textures which come from his upbringing and love for the African Diaspora. His style focuses on evoking emotion through color, patterns, and storytelling. To Coker, movies are about creativity, inspiration, and the art of storytelling. His artwork is a personal and emotional piece that reimagines the Oscar statuette as the black pioneers that have paved the path for other black individuals, helping their future generation to believe that they can achieve success no matter the obstacles that stand in their way. On the statuette, he juxtaposes a striking contrast of bright colors and alluring patterns to represent the emotions that he feels when watching people just like himself- awe, hope, realization, among others.
尼日利亚艺术家Temi Coker将充满活力的色彩和纹理融合在一起，这来源于他的成长经历和对非洲同胞的热爱。他的风格着重于通过色彩、图案和故事来唤起情感。对Coker而言，电影是关于创造力、灵感和故事的。他的作品是个人化的，充满情感，将奥斯卡小金人创造为黑人的先驱，它为其他的黑人族裔铺平道路，帮助他们的后代相信无论今后道路上的障碍，他们同样可以取得成功。在小金人的形象上，他将明艳的色彩和迷人的图案并列在一起制造出一种对比，这是他在和自己同类的人身上感受到的情感——敬畏、希望、觉悟等等。
“This representation transcends past film and into our lives. Our future kids/mentees will look at us and think “because they did, I can.” Black representation matters and always will. I pray we never lose sight of that.”
“这种表现超越了过去的电影，进入了我们的生活。我们未来的孩子/后代会看着我们，然后思考，“他们做到了，所以我也可以。”黑人代表很重要，而且永远如此。我祈祷我们永远不会忘记这一点。”
- Temi Coker
Artist works. 艺术家作品
2. Petra Eriksson
Image:© 2021 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Swedish artist Petra Eriksson is an avid traveler and illustrator based in Barcelona. Her art consists of bold imagery that uses colors and shapes as an emotional outlet. Filled with diverse references and themes, Eriksson’s artworks showcase a strong balance of color and neat composition that make her simplistic creations that much more visually pleasing. To Petra Eriksson movies serve as an escape from reality. She would often find parallels between movies and her experiences manipulating them as an inspiration for her art.
瑞典艺术家Petra Eriksson是居住在巴塞罗那的一名狂热旅行爱好者和插画师。她的艺术大胆而充满想象，用色彩和形状作为情感的表达方式。Eriksson的作品中充满了各式的参考和主题，展示了色彩与简洁构图间的强烈平衡，使她简约的创作更具视觉愉悦性。对Petra Eriksson来说，电影是一种逃避现实的方式。她经常会发现电影和她自身经历之间的一些相似之处，并以此作为她创作的灵感。
“It’s a tool to understand other situations differently, or even understand my own situation better by getting a new perspective or recognizing something I’ve been through in someone else’s story”
“它是一种工具，可以帮助对其他情况有不同的理解，甚至可以获得新的视角，意识到我在他人故事中经历的那些事情，从而可以更好地理解自己的情况”
-Petra Eriksson
Erikkson’s vivid statuette highlights the immersive elements of a film such as sound, imagery, and acting that can bring about emotions that evoke past experiences.
Erikkson作品中生动的小金人突出了电影中那些沉浸式的元素，例如声音、图像和表演，这些元素可以唤醒过去的经历，带来一种情感。
Artist works. 艺术家作品
3. Magnus Voll Mathiassen
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Norwegian artist Magnus Voll Mathiassen, also known as MVM works on illustration, graphic design, and art direction projects for major brands and celebrities. His style consists of strong colors, rounded edges, and patterns that are based on experiments of mixed techniques. MVM finds joy in the technical parallels found within art and film, describing it as an “organism where magic flows through its system.” Likewise, his statuette represents a personified version of a complex and ever-changing “ecosystem” that is the film industry and all those connected to it. Strokes of colors become the silhouettes for the figure itself while also illuminating the different layers behind movies.
挪威艺术家Magnus Voll Mathiassen，（也被称为MVM），致力于为主流品牌和名流人士提供插画，图形设计和艺术指导项目。他的风格基于对混合技术的试验，体现在其强烈的色彩，圆润的边缘和样式上。MVM在艺术和电影的技术相似性中找到乐趣，他描述为“一种经由魔法流过系统的有机体”。同样，他的小金人代表了一个复杂和不断变化的“生态系统”的拟人化版本，即电影产业和所有与之相关的产业。色彩的笔触成为人物本身的轮廓，同时也照亮了电影背后的不同层次。
Artist works. 艺术家作品
4. Michelle Robinson
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Michelle Robinson, also known as Mister Michelle is a Korean American visual artist, whose work is the study of contrast, colors, patterns, and the female form. Inspired by the female form and its ability to manipulate surrounding elements, Robinson paints works that deeply explore self-empowerment, identity, community, sexuality, freedom, and the human condition. Her Oscar statuette references birth and origin under the concept, the genesis of movies: theaters. Paying homage not only to the golden era of Hollywood where films like Metropolis (1927) or performers like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton graced the big screen but also to its elaborately decorated architecture.
Michelle Robinson，同时也被称为米歇尔先生（Mister Michelle），是一位韩裔美国视觉艺术家，他的作品基于颜色、对比度，图案和女性形态进行研究。Michelle Robinson的作品受到女性形体及其驾驭周围环境的能力的启发，深入探讨了自我赋权、身份、社区、性、自由和人类状况。她的奥斯卡小金人参考了戏剧，这种作为电影概念起源的艺术形式。不仅向黄金时代的好莱坞，如电影《大都会》（1927），查理·卓别林和巴斯特·基顿等表演者在大荧幕上的表演致敬，同时也向这一时期内精美装饰的建筑表达敬意。
“I envisioned the Oscar silhouette encapsulated in an intricate framework that exemplifies the theater; a renowned figure centered proudly as the heart and soul within this architectural body. Theater & Performer—a sublime symbolism of body and soul.”
我设想将小金人的剪影封装在一个复杂的框架里，这个框架代表着典型的剧院结构。一个著名的人物，自豪地用建筑物般的身体将自己的灵魂和身体矗立在中心，是“剧院”和“表演者”—“肉体”和“灵魂”的精妙象征。
- Mister Michelle
Artist works. 艺术家作品
5. Karan Singh
Image:© 2021 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Karan Singh is an Australian artist and illustrator that creates contemporary art inspired by optical-art minimalism and graphic design. Using a wide range of mediums including prints, animation, video, augmented reality, puzzles, sculpture, and clothing, Singh playfully explores the perception of depth and dimension through patterns and repetition. For the artist, movies not only act as a source of inspiration but also as a form of artistic analysis.
Karan Singh是一位澳大利亚的艺术家和插画家，他的现代艺术创作灵感来自于欧普艺术的极简主义和平面设计。Singh运用印刷、动画、视频、增强现实、谜题、雕塑和服装等多种媒介，通过图案的重复，有趣地探索深度和维度的感知。对艺术家来说，电影不仅是灵感的源泉，也是艺术分析的一种形式。
“From the photography, to wardrobe, to the lighting, to the editing and beyond, I enjoy trying to understand how and why they’ve made the decisions they have and what that means for the story…Ultimately, it’s always a joy to watch other artists work, if not to inspire than to better understand your own work.”
“从摄影，到服装，到照明，到剪辑再到其他的东西，我热衷于了解它们是如何被决定，以及如何影响故事的……归根结底，观看其他艺术家的作品总是一种乐趣，就算不是为了激发灵感，也可以更好地了解自己的作品”
-Karan Singh
Singh’s reinterpretation of the Oscar statuette is influenced by harmony and unity. Recalling how films had alleviated the stress of isolation during the pandemic by entertaining, distracting, consoling, and inspiring people in a time of need. Through the repeating layers of the main figure, Singh seeks to portray the diversity of talents required in creating a film, reflect a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
Singh对奥斯卡小金人的重新诠释受和谐与统一的影响。回顾电影如何通过娱乐、分散注意力、安慰和激励需要帮助的人来缓解来自疫情流行期间的隔离压力。通过主体人物的层叠重复，反映出了各种形状、颜色和大小，Singh试图描绘出电影创作所需的各种才能。
Artist works. 艺术家作品
6. Victoria Villasana
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Victoria Villasana is a Mexican textile artist interested in history, culture and how people relate to each other through their vulnerabilities in a fragmented and post-digital world. She stitches colorful shapes in the form of dots and stripes over colorless photographs, giving power to the image. The spirit of her art is characterized by the way the thread is left uncut and seemingly unfinished, exploring the importance of acceptance of impermanence and imperfection in life. Through her art, Villasana strives to connect emotionally with people as a drive for positive social impact. By weaving her threads, she recreates a new story that connects us to “express the resiliency and creativity of the human spirit.” A sentiment she shares with the purpose of film:
Victoria Villasana是一位墨西哥纺织艺术家，她对历史、文化以及人们是如何通过自身的脆弱性在支离破碎的后数字世界中相互连结感兴趣。她在无色的照片上以点和条纹的形式缝制出彩色形状，赋予了图像力量。她的作品中通常将未剪的线头留下，似乎以一种未完成的方式探索了接纳生活中无常和不完美的重要性。这是她艺术作品的一种精神和特征。通过她的艺术，维拉萨纳努力在情感上与人们建立联系，以此推动积极的社会影响。通过编织，她再现了一个新的故事，将我们联系在一起“表达人类精神的韧性和创造力”。她对电影的意义是这样理解：
“Films create a bridge of communication and make us understand deep truths about our connection with the other as humans. They also allow us to play with our imagination and fantasize about other worlds”
“电影创造了一座沟通的桥梁，让我们了解人类与他人关系的深刻真相。它还允许我们发挥想象力，幻想关于其他世界的一切”
- Victoria Villasana
Artist works. 艺术家作品
7. Shawna X
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Shawna X is a Chinese independent visual artist and creative known for her vibrant, and graphical image-making. She enjoys projects about cultural identity, the creative process, and more. The artist describes her creative development as a product of her cross-cultural upbringing in the USA, noting the dichotomy of things such as those between individualism vs. collectivism.
Shawna X是一位中国的独立视觉艺术家，以生动，活泼的图像制作而闻名。她热衷于关于文化认同、创作过程等的项目。这位艺术家将她的创造力发展描述为她在美国跨文化成长的产物，她注意到了事物的二元论，诸如个人主义和集体主义之间存在的二分法。
"This dichotomy existed in almost every aspect, from money, gender roles, sex, to food, and whilst it was challenging in many ways, the dichotomy helped me form my own opinions on this role in life, without necessarily adhering to what was taught.”
“这种二分法几乎存在于各个方面，从金钱，性别角色，性，到食物，虽然它在许多方面都具有挑战性，但这种二分法帮助我对人生的角色形成了自己的见解，而不必坚持遵循于所被教导的内容 。”
- Shawna X
Using visceral imagery, Shawna X finds contrasting concepts that form the basis of the human experience and with regard to her view on film, this is also the same. She believes movies to be both an inspiration and an escape: By using the eye to represent the audience, and the surrounding elements to release the energies, the artist portrays the Oscar statuette as a dichotomy of experiences that viewers get, a mix of emotions, motivations, and audiovisual delight.
运用本能的意向，Shawna X发现形成人类经验的基础是两种截然不同的概念，而她对于电影的看法也是一样。她认为电影既是一种灵感，也是一种逃避：通过用眼睛的形象来代表观众，用周围的元素来释放能量，艺术家将奥斯卡小金人描绘成一种情感、动机和视听愉悦的混合体，让观众得到多元的体验。
Artist works. 艺术家作品
Translation 翻译 Rona Xia
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