【艺术家推介】 陈赛华灌 Chen Sai Hua Kuan/新加坡

陈赛华灌的艺术作品看起来很简单，而实际创作过程却异常复杂。他的作品采用多领域交叉的创作手段，包括雕塑、绘画、装置、声音、现场，其作品往往十分独特，且富于智慧和能量。

陈赛华灌的作品受邀参与诸多重要艺术活动，包括 “平昌双年展”（韩国）、“新加坡双年展”、“地球之声”（福冈亚洲美术馆）、“新加坡当代艺术展”（苏州金鸡湖美术馆）、“拉古娜艺术奖”（威尼斯军械库）、“绘图巴黎／乐杜沙龙当代DESSIN'”（卢浮宫）、“全景：从当代亚洲当代艺术近作展”（新加坡美术馆）、“国际电影节鹿特丹——对立的吸引力”（荷兰鹿特丹）、“吕勒奥艺术双年展”（瑞典）、“莫斯科国际青年艺术双年展”、“EV+A 双年展”（爱尔兰利默里克）、“釜山国际短片电影节”、“皇家艺术学院夏季展2010”（英国伦敦）和“艺术与传媒横滨国际艺术节展”（横滨）。

陈赛华灌曾获“Künstlerhaus Bethanie艺术家驻馆计划” 、“福冈亚洲美术馆艺术家驻馆计划”、“最受欢迎奖”（Mostyn Open 18，威尔士）、“新加坡地球观测所驻场计划”、“弗罗茨瓦夫最佳奖”、“FAFF2010 最佳影片奖”（英国韦克菲尔德）等。

Chen Sai Hua Kuan was born in 1976 in Singapore. He graduated from the LASALLE College of the Arts in 1997. In 2007, he received a Masters in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

Visually simple and often laborious in execution, Sai’s practice often incorporates cross-disciplinary elements of sculpture, drawing, installation, sound, and performance with wit and energy.

Sai has exhibited extensively, at venues that include “Pyeong Chang Biennale 2017: The Five Moons, Return of the Nameless and Unknown” (2017, Gangneung, South Korea); “Singapore Biennale 2013: If the World Changed” (2013, Singapore); “Sound of the Earth” (2013, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan); “The Realm in the Mirror, the Vision out of Image” (Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, China); “Arte Laguna Prize” (2013, Arsenale of Venice, Italy); “Drawing Now Paris / Le Salon Du Dessin Contemporain” (2013, Cattousel Du Louvre, Paris); “Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia” (2012, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore); “International Film Festival Rotterdam - ATTRACTION OF THE OPPOSITES” (2011, Rotterdam, the Netherlands); “Lule? Art Biennial” (2011, Sweden); “Moscow International Biennale for Young Art” (2010, Russia); “EV+A” (2010, Ireland); “Busan International Short Film Festival” (2010, Busan, South Korea); “Royal Academy of Arts: Summer Exhibition 2010” (2010, United Kingdom), and the “International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama 2009” (2009, Yokohama, Japan).

He received numerous awards including the Artist-in-residency Award,“Künstlerhaus Bethanien”, Berlin,Germany (2015-2016); Artist-in-residency Award, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan (2013); the People’s Choice Award, “Mostyn Open 18”, Wales, United Kingdom (2013); the Visiting Artist Program of Earth Observatory Singapore, Singapore (2012); Best of WRO, “14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 - Alternative Now”, Wroclaw, Poland (2011); and the Best Film of FAFF 2010, “Fundada Artists’ Film Festival”, Wakefield, United Kingdom (2010). 

“空间绘画9号”在2010年创作于法国里尔La Malterie画廊的工作室，是La Malterie艺术家资源中心驻地艺术家项目的成果。“空间绘画9号”通过黑色蹦极绳释放的能量来捕捉该艺术中心里的社会生活。绳子从一面墙弹到另一面墙，从地板弹到天花板，从里面弹到外面，以充满活力和动感的方式丈量着这个空间，同时展示着处于特定地点的人物。“空间绘画”包含一系列试验性和多学科的装置和影片。它探讨了线条对空间的划分、减除和定义的功能，这也是线条最简单但最根本的功能。

‘Space Drawing No.9’ was created at the studio space of La Malterie, Lille, France, in 2010, as a result of the artist-in-residency programme at La Malteria artist resource center. ‘Space Drawing No.9’ captures the social life of the art center through the energy released from a black bungee rope. The rope bounces from wall to wall, from floor to ceiling, from inside to outside, mapping the space in an energetic and dynamic way and disclosing the characters of the particular sites. ‘Space Drawing’ is a series of experimental and multi-disciplinary installation and film work, which explores the idea of the simplest but the most fundamental function of a line – to divide, subtract and define a space.