【 展文/創作自述 】《你的平靜就是家－莊東橋》Inner Peace, Home – Chuang Tong-Chiao

（一）生長的地方／旅居的地方／工作的地方。

你相信離開會讓你變得不凡，至少變更好。

你對每個異地好奇、埋怨、適應、找出生活之道。

你的心想要很遠，你的腦卻想要先處理眼前各種大小事。

你再次排好目前兩地居所往返的旅程，隨著時間與距離，看到的風景這麼多變。

不知道還要多久才能變成理想中的樣子，你還在路上。

感受了各處的冷天有雨、熱天海岸、冬季夜歸、春暖花開。

看過許多前庭後院、花園和海邊、陽光與樹林，

當你走路、搭車、騎車、駕車之時，

你想像你的理想會比那戶人家更溫暖一些、比那片風景再更舒服一點。

你不知道。

你又進入了另一次的旅行，或是出差，或只是走出辦公室外，甚至走出租賃之所，

想要在行旅中、散步中、移動中再多看看別人的風景、別人的家。

 (1) A Place to Grow, to Travel, to Work

You believe leaving will take you on a path to something extraordinary, or better at least.

You explore, moan and cope, trying to figure it all out.

Your heart drifts afar, but your mind stays with what’s at hand.

Once again, you calculated the time and distance between home and residence, taking in the changes along the way. 

How longwill it take until finding the one? The journey continues.

The journey continues from spring to winter, rain and shine, sun up to sun down.  

Along the way, you pass through the yards and gardens, the seashore and forest under the sun,

on your feet, on a bike or in a car.

There has to be some place a little warmer, some place a little more comforting than what you are seeing.

You just don’t know.

You go on yet another journey, a business trip perhaps, a step out of the office or a rental perhaps.

This is an attempt to peek into more homes, to see more that do not belong to you.

莊東橋　家屋之夢009　145.5×112 cm　壓克力顏料、畫布　2014

（二）有時候你只是累了，想回家。

三月底，北海岸濕冷的風雨，下班後回到賃租之所，迎接你的是兩隻貓，你摸摸牠們，很像這樣的動作才是真正的打卡下班。熱水澡之後，洗了十六穀米，放入電鍋想要煮成甜粥。之後賴在床上，想要忘記這幾天因公事私事帶來的焦慮暈眩嘔吐感。

你想家，你的平靜就是家。

 (2) Homesick, occasionally, simply for weariness.

In late March, the wind and rain bring the cold and damp air into the north coast. Two cats greet you as you return to the rented apartment from work, and you pat them as if punching the clock. After a hot shower, you started making sweet porridge. At the end of the day, you lie in bed, trying to forget the nauseating anxiety and dizziness from work, from personal affairs, from life.

When you are homesick, inner peace is home.

莊東橋　家屋之夢012　100 x 80 cm　壓克力顏料、畫布　2015

（三）家屋與天地

國外旅居與異地工作的生活經驗，莊東橋在家屋與天地的意象中創作了三個系列作品：＜素直＞、＜家屋之夢＞、＜萬物再度呼吸＞。

莊東橋的個展《你的平靜就是家》挑選了這三系列中的八件作品展出，皆帶有著鮮明的海岸晴雨、前庭後院的意象，可說是呈現他回臺後在北海岸工作生活的創作小結，同時也延續和發展他2012年開始這主題創作上的思考：

如何透過個人化符號的抽象性與具象表現，讓幾何形狀與表現性的筆觸線條

　　有了一個新的觀看指引，但不同純粹抽象、介於具象與抽象之間過度的抽象

　　進程、或是追求似與不似之間的半抽象；也嘗試提出在一個平面上，用構圖

　　和色彩表現非單一線性流動的時空，並保有其曖昧和開放的流動空間感的可

　　能，來反應他在散步、騎車、乘車、旅行時看到的家屋與天地之意象。

 (3) House and Universe

Chuang created three series in House and Universe based on his experience of living and working abroad – Simplicity, The Dream of Home, and Everything Breathes Again.

Eight pieces from the three series are chosen for his solo exhibition, Inner Peace, Home, which paints a vivid image of the coastal climates and open yards. This is a reflection of his life and work after returning to the north coast of Taiwan. It is also a continuation of the theme that he has been exploring since 2012.

　　

This is an attempt to shed new lights over the expressive geometric lines through abstract and figurative expressions of personalized symbology. However, it differs from pure abstraction. It differs from the progression of over abstraction between the figurative and the abstract, and from semi-abstraction that wavers between likenesses. This is an attempt to express the non-linear dynamics with composition and color on a two-dimensional plane while leaving room for the fluidity of space, which is ambiguous and yet open, to reflect the images of house and universe he captures when he walks, bikes, drives or travels.

   莊東橋 CHUANG Tong-Chiao (1981- )

  法國巴黎賽爾季國立高等藝術學院 

  國家高等造形表現文憑(DNSEP)

創作自述           　

Self Narration

　

　我喜歡畫畫，喜歡享受自然，喜歡觀賞建築，喜歡抽象和表現性繪畫，喜歡散步、旅行和閒晃。我喜歡簡單地表達我所感觸到事物的明亮部分，我喜歡自己作品裡面帶點曖昧但開闊的空間感。我一直在尋找適合自己作品的時空表現方式，我一直在觀看、在思考這個世界和我之間的關係，而「風景」則是我用來思索、表現「我和這個世界關聯」這個命題的媒介。

I like to paint. I like abstract and expressive paintings. I enjoy nature and architecture. I like to walk, travel and wander. I like to express the upside of what I feel in an uncomplicated manner. I like the sense of space with ambiguity and openness in my work. All along, I have been searching for a dimension appropriate for it. I have been observing and pondering “the connection between the world and myself”, and the “scenery” is the medium for my exploration and expression of such connection. 

　

莊東橋  素直009  150 x 150 cm  壓克力顏料 畫布  2012 

　長期旅行和客居異地，我習慣性地觀察風景，將不同的景色互相參照、反思、內化為自己的創作。2007-2011年是我的巴黎留學時期，那時的作品發展面向較多元，我將這時期的作品統稱為《符號風景》。2012年開始有新的發展，主題是《家屋與天地》，這個創作主題仍在往前。在《符號風景》和《家屋與天地》之間，有一個很重要的承先啟後的轉折，就是《符號風景》下的〈三聯素描－移動的凝視〉，因此以下將依《符號風景》、〈三聯素描－移動的凝視〉、《家屋與天地》的順序，簡單寫出我在創作上所關心的方向。

           After a long period residing and traveling abroad, I developed the habit of observing the sceneries around me, and then cross-referencing, reflecting and internalizing them as my own. The pieces I created during my study in Paris between 2007 and 2011 are more versatile. I name this series “Signaletic Landscape”. A new theme developed in 2012, House and Universe, which is still ongoing. Between the two, however, there was a significant turning point,Triptych Sketch. It was developed under Signaletic Landscape. The following is a brief account of my thought processasI created the pieces.

《符號風景》是透過我的旅行經驗，對自己國家和其他國家的風景記憶與印象，做一自身定位和認同的思索，再以個人感性符號轉化後的成果。

Signaletic Landscapeis based on my travel experience. It is the contemplation for self-recognition and positioning from the sceneries in my own and other countries. It is the fruit of memories and impressions transformed with sensibility and personalized symbology.

使用鉛筆與橡皮擦的素描作品〈三聯素描－移動的凝視〉，以三張大小不一的白色素描紙畫出的黑、白、灰的風景線條與塊面，三張紙張底邊齊一並置，將個別紙張視為一個不特定的抽象時空，三張並置後可視為同一時空集合與流動的表現方式，影響了日後《家屋與天地》的創作。

Triptych Sketch – Stare of Mobility is a sketch work involving pencil and eraser only. Scenic lines and blocks in black, white and gray are drawn on three pieces of white sketch paper of varying sizes with the bottom of all three aligned. Each represents an unspecified abstract dimension. The juxtaposition of the three creates a collective and dynamic dimension that influences House and Universe.

莊東橋  家屋之夢010  100 x 80 cm  壓克力顏料 畫布  2015

《家屋與天地》主題的發展，在畫面裡的比重中，表現性的具體形象愈來愈顯重，而我思考的是如何透過具象表現，讓抽象幾何和抽象表現的繪畫語彙也能成為一種具體表現的可能，也就是說，透過個人化符號的抽象性與具象表現，讓幾何形狀與表現性的筆觸與線條有了一個新的觀看指引，不同純粹抽象、介於具象與抽象之間過度的抽象進程、或是追求似與不似之間的半抽象。目前為止，我仍無法說出那是什麼，只能說是目前創作中思考最多的部分。《家屋與天地》這主題仍會發展其他的子題，還在往前繼續。

Figurative expressionism is growing in presence as House and Universeprogresses. I ponder ways to presentgeometric abstraction and abstract expressionism with figurative expression, in other words, giving a new indicator to the geometric and expressive lines through abstract and figurative expressions of personalized symbology. Itdiffers from pure abstraction, from the progression of over abstraction between the figurative and the abstract, and from semi-abstraction that wavers between likenesses. I have not been able to define it so far. It does, however, take up most of my thoughts. House and Universe is still ongoing, and I will continue to develop under the theme.

莊東橋  萬物再度呼吸015  130 x 97 cm  壓克力顏料 畫布  2015

我於2012年由法國巴黎返臺定居，在北海岸工作和創作，相信隨著我生命的成長、時間的推移和風土人文的影響，這個主題的創作會有別於旅居歐洲時期的風味。

I returned from Paris in 2012 to work and create art on the north coast of Taiwan. I believe that as I grow andas time progresses, the influence of local culture and customs will set the subsequent pieces in this series apart from those created in Europe.

莊東橋  萬物再度呼吸013  25.5 x 17.5 cm  壓克力顏料 畫布  2015

莊東橋  萬物再度呼吸014  25.5 x 17.5 cm  壓克力顏料 畫布  2015

莊東橋  萬物再度呼吸011  130 x 97 cm  壓克力顏料 畫布  2015