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Alberto Reguera

Luminous Horizons

Mixed media on canvas

2020

L. 101 cm x W. 151 cm x D. 7.5 cm

Collection of the artist

艾拔圖·雷古拉

《燦爛地平線》

布本混合媒介

2020年

長101厘米 x 闊151厘米 x 深7.5厘米

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The paintings respond to the depiction of moonlight breaking through the clouds in Van der Neer’s landscape. For Reguera, clouds are the centerpiece of landscape painting in both the Dutch tradition and traditional Chinese art. Reguera, who has exhibited widely in China, makes the following observation: Chinese artists begin from the concept that a cloud is a medial space between mountain and sky.

 

Great importance is attached to the concept of the void. The void has its place in the painting through the representation of the condensation of water droplets in the form of a mountain. It’s the idea of shan shui (water-mountain).

For traditional Chinese painters, a cloud can be a demiurge that establishes those balances, the harmonies they need to create space between, above, and below. Wang Wei, the Tang dynasty poet and painter, spoke of how clouds eventually give way to clarity, a blue aura from which clouds and storms can disappear.

雷古拉的畫作回應了范・德・尼爾在風景畫中,對月光穿透雲層的描繪。對藝術家而言,雲在風景畫裏是最引人觸目的,不僅在荷蘭的繪畫傳統中如此,在其他繪畫作品如中國畫中,也是不可或缺的。曾於中國多處展覽的雷古拉能觀察到,中國人認為雲代表著山與天之間的空間。

「空」的概念十分重要。在構圖上「空」有其位,即呈現水凝為滴,以山為形,方成「山水」。

對傳統中國畫家而言,雲能造物以及建立平衡,創造畫面高遠、深遠和平遠空間的和諧。唐代詩人畫家王維有詩云:「白雲回望合,青靄入看無」。

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Alberto Reguera

Floating Mountains

Mixed media on canvas

2019

L. 61.6 cm x W. 91.5 cm x D. 7.5 cm

Collection of the artist

艾拔圖·雷古拉

《浮山》

布本混合媒介

2019年

長61.6厘米 x 闊91.5厘米 x 深7.5厘米

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Clouds are constantly in transition, and each moment is distinct since the clouds are always being formed and transformed. This is why clouds often represent time. After the Dutch, clouds became a primary feature of nineteenth-century landscape painting from the Romantics to the Impressionists. The sweeping compositions give the impression that the clouds are leaping from the canvas; they progressively build a horizontal sequence that reveals a story about the natural world.

連綿起伏的浮雲變幻莫測,因此雲也代表著時間。繼荷蘭黃金時代風景畫家之後,雲成為十九世紀浪漫派乃至印象派風景畫的重要特徵。當中向上横掃的筆觸,予人一種亂雲從畫面撲出來的錯覺,繼而建構出雲層横向飄遊的一個個序列,從而訴説大自然的故事。

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