BANK非常高兴地看到林明弘在纽约大都会艺术博物馆的艺术项目在上周一顺利开幕。
大都会博物馆馆长Max Hollein对作品展开了丰富的介绍，不仅因为这是大都会博物馆第一次将此片区域用于艺术，也是亚洲部门的策展人第一次与在世的艺术家接触。"林明弘令人兴奋的装置，以一种身临其境又出乎意料的方式唤醒了自动扶梯，也在大都会的标志性大厅里为中国陶瓷的历史提出发人深省的思考”。大都会的Oscar Tang和Agnes Hsu-Tang中国绘画副馆长Joseph Scheier-Dolberg补充说："林明弘将艺术、建筑和人类联系联系起来的能力使他成为这项委托的理想艺术家。他创造了一种不可磨灭的视觉体验，同时让人们注意到亚洲艺术在大都会的宏伟空间中所扮演的角色。"
在由BANK和EAST WEST BANK慷慨赞助的开幕酒会和晚宴上，有多位艺术界的知名人士出席。如古根海姆高级策展人Alexandra Munroe、大都会新任当代策展人Lesley Ma、收藏家Carolyn Hsu-Balcer和Rene Balcer，以及令人惊喜的到场：著名的行为艺术家谢德庆。
BANK is so happy to see Michael Lin’s semi-permanent installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art get off to a great start this past Monday. The work was christened by Met Director Max Hollein made a long emphatic presentation as this was the first time that this area was being used for art and the first time a curator from the Asian department engaged a living artist. “Michael Lin’s exciting installation activates the escalator in an immersive and unexpected manner, while also raising thought-provoking considerations about the history of displaying Chinese ceramics in The Met’s iconic Great Hall.”Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, The Met’s Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Associate Curator of Chinese Paintings, added, “Michael Lin's ability to link art, architecture, and human connection makes him the ideal artist for this commission. He has created an indelible visual experience while simultaneously drawing attention to the role that Asian art has played within the grand spaces of The Met.” In attendance at the opening reception and dinner co-hosted by BANK and the generous support of EAST WEST BANK were art world luminaries such as Guggenheim senior curator, Alexandra Munroe; Lesley Ma, the new contemporary curator at the Met; collectors, Carolyn Hsu-Balcer and Rene Balcer; the legendary performance artist Tehching Hsieh, and many more.
Installation view of Pentachrome by Michael Lin, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning August 15, 2022. Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The MetThe Great Hall Balcony, 1933，courtesy of The MetVase with Plum Blossoms and Birds，courtesy of The MetVase with Rocks and Flowers，courtesy of The MetOrianna Cacchione, Smart Museum Curator和谢德庆
林明弘是一名在台北与布鲁塞尔工作生活的艺术家。他不以绘画作为思考的主体，而将绘画视为可以让人安置、栖身，并有界限的物理空间。林明弘精心编排里程碑式的绘画装置，重新界定和重组公共空间。他的作品借鉴纺织品图案与设计，林明弘在全世界范围内的重要美术馆及双年展展出，包括加拿大多伦多当代艺术博物馆（2020），墨西哥 Jumex 美术馆(2020)，台北市立美术馆(2019)，墨尔本维多利亚州国立美术馆(2017)，菲律宾马尼拉当代艺术与设计美术馆(2016)等等，他即将于今年8月在纽约大都会呈现最新公共空间委任创作。林明弘非传统的作品改变了公共美术馆的建筑，邀请观众重新审视对于空间的既有印象并成为作品整体的一部分，释放空间互动、相遇、再创造的潜力。Michael Lin is an artist living and working in Taipei and Brussels. Lin turns away from painting as an object of contemplation toward one of painting as a bounded, physical space, one we can settle into and inhabit. Lin orchestrates monumental painting installations that re-conceptualize and reconfigure public spaces. Using patterns and designs appropriated from textiles his works have been exhibited in major institutions and international Biennials around the world, including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto（2020）and Jumex Museum, Mexico City(2020), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei 2019, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila 2016 etc. His latest commissioned work will be present on August 2022 at the MET in New York.Transforming the institutional architecture of the public museum, his unconventional paintings invite visitors to reconsider their usual perception of those spaces, and to become an integral part of the work, giving meaning to its potential as an area for interaction, encounter, and re-creation.
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