流光 | 胡玛·芭芭：无题
胡玛·芭芭
无题，2020
C-print上墨、丙烯与拼贴
215.9 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm
四方当代美术馆馆藏
Huma Bhabha
Untitled, 2020
Ink, acrylic, and collage on C-print
215.9 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm
Collection of Sifang Art Museum
巴基斯坦裔美国艺术家胡玛·芭芭以其图腾般结合了原始神话与反乌托邦科幻、悲怆与幽默的“人物”雕塑著称。同时，她也将绘画叠加在自己的版画或摄影作品上，加以来自日历或杂志的拼贴元素，创作出层次繁复、怪诞诗意的纸面作品。例如作品《无题》，不安的绿色中浮现出图片和笔触叠加而成的多毛形体。一双空洞的白色眼眶将它标识为面孔或面具。既像是来自远古的洞视，又仿佛是对未来生态灾难的警醒，映照出我们最深的情绪。
Pakistani-American artist Huma Bhabha is known for her “character” sculptures that combine primitive mythology with dystopian science fiction, agony with humor, in a totemic manner. She also overlays drawings onto her print or photographic works, with added collage elements from calendars or magazines, to create intricately layered and absurdly poetic paper works. In Untitled, for instance, a hair-covered figure created from layered pictures and brushstrokes emerge out of an unsettling shade of green. With a pair of hollow, white eye sockets, it is designated as a visage or a mask. It brings to mind scrutiny from ancient times and at the same time forewarning of future ecological disasters, mirroring our innermost emotions.
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About Artist
胡玛·芭芭
Huma Bhabha
胡玛·芭芭出生于1962年。她的作品涉及记忆、战争、流离失所和普遍存在的殖民主义历史等主题。她使用现成的材料和日常生活中的废弃碎屑，创造出萦绕在抽象与具象、纪念碑与熵之间的令人难以忘怀的人物形象。虽然她的形式词汇明显是她自己的，但芭芭接受了一种跨越世纪、地理、艺术历史传统和文化联系的后现代混合性。她的作品参考了古希腊的Kouroi、犍陀罗佛、非洲雕塑和埃及圣髑盒。与此同时，她的作品仍然坚持现代性，从贾科梅蒂、毕加索和劳森伯格以及科幻小说、恐怖电影和流行小说中寻找灵感。
芭芭的作品目前包括：“嗨，女人！”，Francesco Bonami策划，比勒陀利亚宫博物馆，普拉托，展期至3月；“肉体以不同方式自处”，格拉斯哥大学亨特博物馆展厅，英国，展期至4月；“十年收购的纸上作品”，哈默博物馆，洛杉矶，加州，展期至5月；“我们完整、混乱的自我”，圣何塞艺术博物馆，加州，展期至6月。她目前也是尼古拉斯·波美（Nicholas Baume）在埃斯孔迪多港（MX）Fundación Casa Wabi 策划的个展的主题，该展览展出了她在居住期间制作的雕塑。
Born in 1962. Her work addresses themes of memory, war, displacement, and the pervasive histories of colonialism. Using found materials and the detritus of everyday life, she creates haunting human figures that hover between abstraction and figuration, monumentality and entropy. While her formal vocabulary is distinctly her own, Bhabha embraces a post-modern hybridity that spans centuries, geography, art-historical traditions and cultural associations. Her work includes references to ancient Greek Kouroi, Gandharan Buddhas, African sculpture and Egyptian reliquary. At the same time, it remains insistently modern, looking to Giacometti, Picasso and Rauschenberg for inspiration, as well as to science fiction, horror movies, and popular novels.
Bhabha’s work is currently included in “Hi Woman!”, curated by Francesco Bonami, at Museo Palazzo Pretorio, Prato (IT) through March; “Flesh Arranges Itself Differently” at the Hunterian, University of Glasgow (GB) through April; “A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CA) until May; and “Our whole, unruly selves” at the San José Museum of Art (CA) through June. She is also currently the subject of a solo exhibition curated by Nicholas Baume at Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido (MX), which features sculptures made while in residence.
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