016
LIEN Chien-hsing (b. 1962)
Awaking Spring by the Lake Bank
為其生活成長的北台灣，因時空的轉 換，從過去豐饒的民情文化轉變為機械 文明的單調與冷漠，透過記錄消逝的景
the martial law and its economy had just started to develop. His creation was originated from the huge impact between
1997-2001 Oil on canvas 130 x 89.5 cm
象，表述他對生命與時空的觀察。
Signed lower right Lien Chien-hsing in Chinese and dated 1997-2001 The painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Metropolitan
實與魔幻的對比，大量呈現廢墟，除 已成廢墟的礦場、坑道，斑駁的建築 鐵架，還以看似荒廢角落中的石塊、 牆面、木架、水源、動植物等入畫， 把荒廢的風景變形為一個幻想空間，
opening up and self-seclusion. Starting from nostalgic realism, injecting his own feeling and idea, he endowed the nostalgic realism with a new meaning. The sceneries he described in his paintings
Gallery, Tainan.
藉由俯視、廣角的空間呈現，使風
NT$ 480,000-580,000 US$ 14,500-17,600 HK$ 113,300-136,900
連建興 春醒湖畔 1997-2001 油彩 畫布 130 x 89.5 cm 簽名右下：連建興 1997-2001
進入1990年代，連建興的作品呈現真
景、廢墟、動物交織成一片虛虛實實 的幻景，來象徵虛幻的現實世界並暗 示生命的渺小與無常。
were mostly in Northern Taiwan where he lived and grew up and had transformed from the previous plentiful folk culture to the blankness and apathy of mechanical civilization, due to the transition of time and space, expressing the view towards life and space-time through recording the elapsing sceneries.
《春醒湖畔》創作於1997至2001年， 作品以我們所熟悉的青山綠水構組出 凝滯時間裡的自然原生景象，漫布著 神秘、靜謐、含蓄悲憫的氣息，隱隱 自然滲透出鄉愁，反射出畫家所歸屬 的地緣情感。 Ta i w a n p a i n t e r L i e n C h i e n - h s i n g
Entering into the 1990s, the works of Lien Chien-hsing revealed the contrast between relity and delusion and largely presented ruins. Apart from the ruined mines, saps, mottled architectural hobs, in his paintings, he transformed the
famous for "magic realism" has won the acknowledgment of art community with his unique creative style in recent years. Through the severe test of such
ruined sceneries into imaginary space by adopting blocks, walls, wooden racks, water sources, animals and vegetations located at the seemingly ruined corner. By the space presentation from top view and
建興，近年來以其獨樹一幟的創作風格 贏得了藝術界的肯定。曾歷經照相寫實 主義及新表現主義的創作形式的洗禮， 經過數十年的辛苦耕耘，連建興所醞釀 發展出具有沈靜內斂的人文省思的魔幻
creative forms as photo-realism and new expressionism and through decades of
vast view, the sceneries, ruins and animals were interwined into partially realistic
hard work, the magic realistic style Lien Chien-hsing has brewed and developed, which boasts calm and humanist
and partially virtual illusion to symbolize the visional real world and suggest the insignificance and uncertainty of life.
寫實風格已愈發深植人心。
consideration features has been deeply rooted in the people’s hearts.
Created during 1997 to 2001, the works
In the early 1980s, photo-realism had been in vogue. Lien Chien-hsing, the
of "Awaking Spring by the Lake Bank" reveals natural and virgin sceneries combined by our familiar green hills and
sophomore with major subjects of fine arts in Culture University, kept up with
clear water, spreading out the mysterious, t r a n q u i l , i m p l i c i t a n d s a d f l a v o r,
the tide also and was awarded the Hsiung Shih young artist prize of fine arts. Lien Chien-hsing lived in Taiwan during the period when Taiwan had not shaken off
indistinctly and naturally infiltrating nostalgia and reflecting the geographical attachment towards the place the painter belongs to.
附大都會藝術環境所開立之原作保證書
以「魔幻寫實主義」著稱的台灣畫家連
1980年代初期，照相寫實主義蔚為風 潮，文化大學美術系二年級的連建興 也隨這波潮流浮沈，並獲得雄獅美術 新人獎。這一時期的連建興，身處台 灣尚未走出戒嚴又在經濟起飛之時， 開放與閉鎖之間形成的巨大撞擊形成 他的創作本源。他從鄉土寫實出發， 注入自身的情感與理念，賦予鄉土寫 實新的內涵。他的畫中所描述的景觀多
28