賴志盛

Life-size Drawing

source: laichihsheng

我在空間中直接畫出空間。
《原寸素描》為一觀念性創作，其具有多重的狀態，它是空間中最大的亦是最小的作品，是一件繪畫，一件雕塑也是一件現地裝置，與此同時，它「看起來」什麼都不是。作品完全吻合於觀眾所處的現實實體之中，並自然地存在於空間裡的面與面相連接之轉折處，以極簡的形式完成整體性的藝術擴充。
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source: eslitegallerytumblr

LAI Chih-Sheng installing his work Life-Size Drawing as part of “Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012” at the Hayward Gallery, London. Courtesy the artist and Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

Life-Size Drawing has been re-incarnated once more, and this time, it’s in Gallery 3 at the Hayward Gallery in London. A part of “Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012,” this work will span over a space that measures 18 meters by 22 meters by 4.5 meters high, and encounter new materials such as glass, concrete, wood, and brass. With fresh surfaces to outline, LAI Chih-Sheng looks to a wider variety of writing and drawing instruments.

LAI has been reflecting upon the invisible properties of this work and how often we overlook the nuances of the reality in front of us. This installation strays from the norms of drawing, where usually something is drawn onto the surface of another object or a new subject is created that allows viewers to perceive a new world. In Life-Size Drawing, LAI draws the space of the gallery onto the original space itself! There is nothing extraneous in the work – the work is of itself. So thus, the reality has become the work, and vice versa. These two entities find themselves co-existing at the same moment.