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2019年創作的《兩個容器》作品中，藝術家為這兩個既看似疏離、卻又具生物形態的物體，創造了二元性，他利用水盆本身性質的視覺參照，製造出一個抽象的園藝設計，看起來既自然又充滿人造感。人們立刻被帶進一個超自然的想像空間，正好似蘇斯博士碰到愛麗絲夢遊仙境般，多彩繽紛的奇幻靜物畫扭曲了我們的視覺感官並籠罩著我們。
看似熟悉卻又新奇作品風格，帕爾蒂正身處於一波尋求改變當代品味的時代精神之中。去年，他剛被國際畫廊巨頭豪瑟沃斯畫廊簽下，成為旗下最年輕的藝術家之一，齊手與珍米恩・茱利安諾・維蘭妮及克里斯汀娜・蘭伯格，將人們的注意力由強調創作過程的殭屍形式主義，轉移到夢幻式的超現實具象繪畫。透過其高超的抽象形體和深具玩味性的色彩，古拉斯・帕爾蒂揉合前輩法蘭茲・馬克及大衛・哈克尼的手法，並再創新成獨特的個人表現方式。本幅作品正生動體現了上述論點，既溢散著平易近人卻又深具魅力的氣息，並巧妙串聯起客觀觀察與想像空間。
尼古拉斯·帕蒂
Nicolas Party (b. 1980) is a Swiss visual artist living and working in New York City and Brussels. He received his BFA from the Lausanne School of Art in 2004 and his MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, in Glasgow, Scotland in 2009. Party’s works on paper and canvas are most often done in colorful soft pastel, the most common subject matter being fantastical still life and portraits.
Recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2021–22, 2017); Le Consortium,
Dijon, France (2021); Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland (2021); MASI
Lugano, Switzerland (2021); Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2020); Xavier Hufkens,
Brussels (2019); Modern Institute, Glasgow (2019); M Woods Museum, Beijing
(2018); Magritte Museum, Brussels (2018); Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (2018);
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); and Dallas Museum of Art (2016). Party’s
work is represented in the collections of the David Roberts Art Foundation, London;
Migros Museum, Zurich; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; and the Sifang Art
Museum, Nanjing, China.