权能

  Imagine Van Gogh sitting on a discarded sofa smoking his cigarette behind a grimy alleyway. His top splattered with paint and baggy pants flowing down to his striped sandals.

想象一下梵高出现在一条肮脏的小巷后面，坐在一条废弃的沙发上抽着烟， 他的衣服沾满颜料，宽松的裤子一直拖到他的条纹凉鞋上。

How would one imaging Van Gogh if he were alive today?

如果梵高今天还活着，我们会如何怎想象他。

His life, his habits, and his ordinary life. In fact, take any other historical figure for that matter. This is one of the few questions that artist Kwon Neung addresses in his realistic surreal paintings.

他的生活，他的习惯，他的日常会是怎样，任意想象一位历史人物好了。这个命题是艺术家权能在他写实的超现实主义绘画中要解决的问题之一。

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Artistic Performance (2019) 193x97cm by Kwon Neung. Oil on Canvas.

Artistic Afternoon (2017) by Kwon Neung. Oil on Canvas 233.6x91  cm.

Although the lives of famous artists like Andy Warhol or Bob Ross are well-recorded, there is a side of their lives that is not shown to the world. The face behind their artist persona, their subconscious self. Through painting, artist Kwon Neung invokes the viewer to seek out the story behind these figures’ daily life in order to help bridge a connection to them beyond the exhibitions, texts, and archived records of their celebrated lives. At the same time, he reflects on his own identity as an artist projected through the narratives and history that his works leave behind.

尽管安迪·沃霍尔（ Andy Warhol）或鲍勃·罗斯（Bob Ross）等著名艺术家的生活被很好地记录下来，但他们生活中的某些方面却没有向世人展示，例如这些艺术家背后的面孔和他们潜意识中的自我。通过绘画，权能唤起让观众来寻找这些艺术家日常生活背后故事的意图。在他们的展览，文本，和档案记录之外，为观众建立起与艺术家沟通的桥梁。同时，他通过作品中所留下的叙事和历史来反应自己作为画家的身份。

Artistic Holiday (2020) by Kwon Neung. Oil on canvas 240×104 cm

Gogh (2020) by Kwon Neung. Oil on canvas 108×72 cm

Gogh (2020), portrays Van Gogh sitting in his room which is messy and filled with snippets of his works sprawled out before him. Bottles of soju and a pack of cigarettes are spread around him as he snacks on a bag of chips. The work details a simultaneously fun and sad look at Van Gogh’s health reimagined for modern audiences. The artist attempts to meticulously study the state of Van Gogh’s health and devises imagery that brings him to life. 

作品《Gogh》（2020年）描绘了梵高坐在他杂乱无章的房间里，

到处都是他的作品碎片。他正吃着一袋薯片，散落在他周围的是一瓶烧酒和一包香烟。这幅作品展现了梵高在现代观众脑海中构想出来的健康状况，既有趣又悲伤。艺术家试图细致地研究梵高的健康状况，并创造出使他栩栩如生的图像。

It is a reflection of Van Gogh’s poorly diet and excess amounts of alcohol which eventually led him to be diagnosed with malnutrition and alcohol addiction. At the same time, Kwon brings in minute discoverable elements for the viewer to pick out and connect to the work such as the potatoes and sunflower, meanwhile using the hip moniker of "Gogh" instead of Vincent.

梵高糟糕的饮食和过量的酒精摄入，使他被诊断出营养不良和酒精成瘾。这正是其在作品中的反映。

同时，权能引入了细小但可以被找到的一些元素，例如土豆和向日葵，让观众发觉并因此带入到与作品的联系中。他使用了梵高的尾名Gogh，而不是Vincent来作为作品的名称。

Artistic late-night meal (2020) Oil on Canvas 72×50 cm.

Artistic Convenience store 2 (2020) by Kwon Neung. Oil on canvas 150×85 cm

Rather than just being a copy of an art style, Kwon displays a versatile set of techniques and also expands the discussion on appropriation within art. While he does appropriate the art style in a way that matches his composition, he differentiates himself by also including the image of the artists that he appropriates in a form of respect and humorous curiosity. A curiosity that perhaps looks back into an art student’s imagined encounter of the artist they studied through their textbooks and how they see themselves in the world of art.

不单单是作为一种艺术风格的复制品，权能同时还展示了一系列多功能的技术，并扩展了关于艺术借用的讨论。

一方面他欣赏与自己创作相匹配的艺术风格，但同时他的作品中也包括了出于尊重和以一种幽默的好奇心而欣赏的作品，从而使自己与众不同。这种好奇心也许是回顾作为一个艺术生，在通过书本学习时，想象中与艺术家的邂逅，以及他们在艺术世界中会如何看待自己。