BANK 金库 THE VAULT|奇科·达·西尔瓦:亚马逊传奇 Chico da Silva|3月23日开幕
BANK画廊荣幸呈现展览“奇科·达·西尔瓦:亚马逊传奇”,也是这位具有开创性的巴西原住民艺术家在亚洲的首次个展。此次展览将集中展示三个标志性主题——鱼类、飞禽和龙,以此回顾这位自学成才的已故艺术大师及其创作的历史意义。
奇科·达·西尔瓦(又名弗朗西斯科·达·西尔瓦,1910-1985 年)的父亲是秘鲁原住民,母亲是巴西人,他在巴西西北部的阿克里州长大,茂密的亚马逊雨林和欧洲传教会滋养了他的童年。1935年他的父亲因被毒蛇咬伤而过世,随后奇科和母亲搬到福塔莱萨,在那里一直生活到去世。在这里,他开始了自己的艺术创作,自发地在渔民家的墙上作画。在本次展览展出的水粉作品中,奇科·达·西尔瓦描绘了森林中的生物,如亚马逊的飞禽和鱼类,还有龙和神灵等奇幻的形象。他的作品以万花筒般的丰富色彩和鲜明的构图线条为特点,为巴西北部文化中口述流传的故事和神话赋予了具体的形象。
奇科·达·西尔瓦于墙上作画,约1950年代
Chico da Silva drawing on a wall, 1950s. Courtesy Galatea Gallery
奇科的作品引起了瑞士艺术评论家让·皮埃尔·沙布洛兹(Jean-Pierre Chabloz)的注意,继而进入了国际艺术界的视野,得到了南美乃至欧洲的广泛认可,最终奇科代表巴西参加了1966年第33届威尼斯双年展,并参与了1967年的圣保罗双年展。奇科将他在国际上取得的成功带回了自己出身的社区,在那里他建立了一个协作工作室——皮拉姆布学校,这是一个非正式的工作室,当地艺术家和好奇的邻居们在这里学习奇科的技艺,并成为有偿合作者,在他的支持下创作自己的作品。
时至今日,当我们重新审视奇科狂欢式的画作,不难发现其中的预言性和超凡脱俗的神秘感。生态破坏和集体意识在他对故乡巴西的野兽和植物的构图表现中交相辉映。他描绘这些生物的夸张肢体,斗志昂扬而又充满诱惑。伸长的爪子、舌头和喙互相纠缠、引诱和攻击,彰显自然中猛烈的死亡和天使般的繁衍之间的持续波动。画中狂野发散的同心图案和其他元素,将自然的超现实层面与人类本体联系在一起,也将所有生命置于艺术家自造的广阔宇宙之中。他的作品也与这个受生态破坏围困的世界息息相关,这些狂热的画面亦像是对自然世界的不安反驳。亚马逊河流域的沦陷引起了全球反响,奇科宇宙中的神灵和动物似乎也在释放萨满主义的预言。正如这位艺术家曾经指出的那样:"我所描绘的这些世界并非我小时候的记忆。它们就是所谓的想象力、神秘科学、天文学......"
奇科近期的展览包括在圣保罗宗教艺术博物馆(2022年)、圣保罗州立美术馆(2023年)以及纽约大卫·柯丹斯基画廊(2023年)举办的个展。奇科作品的公共收藏包括纽约巴里奥博物馆、巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心、阿布扎比古根海姆博物馆、圣保罗州立美术馆和伦敦泰特现代美术馆等。
奇科·达·西尔瓦,《无题》(黄色的鱼),1970
Chico da Silva, Untitled (Yellow fish), 1970
BANK is proud to present Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend, the first solo exhibition of this seminal Indigenous Brazilian artist in Asia. This historic show focuses on three of this late, self-taught master’s signature themes — fish, birds, and dragons.
Chico da Silva (also known as Francisco da Silva, 1910-1985) was born to an indigenous Peruvian father and a Brazilian mother and grew up in the Northwestern state of Acre, where his childhood was shaped by the dense Amazonian rainforest as well as the catechizing agendas of the area’s European missions. Following his father’s death by snake bite in 1935, Chico and his mother moved to Fortaleza, where he lived until his death. Here, he started his artistic production by spontaneously drawing and painting on the walls of fishermen’s houses. In the gouaches and paintings shown in this exhibition, da Silva represents the creatures of the forest, such as Amazon birds and fish, as well as the fanciful figures of dragons and spirits. His artworks give form to stories and mythologies from the oral tradition of Northern Brazilian culture in compositions marked by rich kaleidoscopic colors and sharp graphic lines.
After catching the attention of Swiss art critic Jean-Pierre Chabloz, Chico’s work was capitulated into the international art world, facilitating widespread recognition throughout South America and Europe that would culminate with Chico representing Brazil in the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966 and participating in the 1967 São Paulo Biennial. Chico brought his international success back to his community, where he established a cooperative studio, the Pirambu School, an informal workshop in which local artists and curious neighbors learned Chico’s techniques, worked as paid collaborators, and, with his support, developed their own bodies of work.
奇科·达·西尔瓦肖像,1963年。©️巴西国家图书馆
Portrait of Chico da Silva, 1963. ©️BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL
Reconsidered today, Chico’s carnivalesque paintings have a prophetic, otherworldly mystique. Both environmental havoc and collective consciousness echo in his graphic representations of the beasts and flora of his native Brazil. The exaggerated extremities of his characters are at once combative and seductive. Elongated claws, tongues, and beaks entangle, entice, and attack, showing nature as the continuous fluctuation of ferocious death and angelic procreation. Wild concentric patterning and other elements connect the surreal aspect of nature to humanity, situating all of life within a broad cosmology of the artist’s own making. His work is also sharply relevant in a world plagued by imminent environmental demise, with these frenzied pictures acting like an uneasy rebuttal of the natural world. As the falling of the Amazon has created global repercussions, the spirits and fauna of Chico’s universe seem to unleash shamanistic prophesies. As the artist once noted, "These worlds that I paint are not memories from the time I was a boy. This is called imagination, occult sciences, astronomy..."
Chico's recent exhibitions include solo shows at Museu de Arte Sacra, São Paulo (2022) and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo (2023), David Kordansky Gallery, New York (2023). Public collections of Chico’s work include the Museo del Barrio, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; and Tate Modern, London, etc.
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