WALASSE TING 丁雄泉 | EAT ME, I'M A FISH 吃我，我是魚

Important Private Asian Collection

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亞洲重要私人收藏

Catherine Kwai, ed., Colour of Fragrance - Walasse Ting Works of 1968-2000, Kwai Fung Art Publishing House, Hong Kong, 2015, cover, p. 17-18

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〈活色・生香：丁雄泉 1968-2000作品展〉季玉年編（香港，季豐美術出版社，二〇一五年），封面、17至18頁

"When I see a beautiful woman I see flowers. Its beauty makes me feel intangible, melancholy, love, refreshed, different and reborn. I want to use different colours to express my inner feelings and emotions in my paintings. I've spent all my life painting, to express a sense of freshness just like a new spring. Women, cats, flowers, and birds in my paintings all represent the beauty in that freshness."

Walasse Ting

A Beauty in Her Boudoir: The Flower Thief Recreates a Classic

Walasse Ting was a natural artist. He was self-taught, and he never wanted to be a part of any academic group. His work has faint traces of Henri Matisse's use of colour, Sam Francis's purity, and even Bada Shanren's lines, but Ting resisted pigeonholing and he retained free will in his work. Eat Me, I'm a Fish (Lot 1034) is an excellent representative of his nudes, and the title reveals the artist's light-hearted humour. This rich composition shows the viewer all the classic elements of Walasse Ting's work at a glance. Eat Me, I'm a Fish is the artist's vivid interpretation of everyday life, and the composition is an overt reference to Édouard Manet's masterpiece Olympia. This work could be considered Ting's homage to a modern master, reinterpreting the essence of this classic painting and challenging the earlier artist's greatness. Ting moved to New York in 1958, at the peak of Abstract Expressionism. Eat Me, I'm a Fish shows Ting's freewheeling use of colour and a style that lies between the representational and abstract. 

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「每一次我看見美麗的女人就會連想到鮮花，鮮花的美使我空靈，使我惆悵，使我愛，使我新鮮，使我不同，使我重生，使我用許多許多的色彩，把我豐富的情感在畫面上表現出來。我一生畫圖，要表現新鮮，像初生的春天，畫上的女人、貓、鮮花、鳥，都在表現新鮮，在新鮮中藏著美。」

丁雄泉

香閨美人——採花大盜再創經典

丁雄泉是個天生的畫家，他自學成材，從未覬覦過學院派系的光環。行跡遠至的他結識多位歐美前衛藝術流派的先行者，例如眼鏡蛇畫派，其作品中又隱約可見馬蒂斯的用色、森姆・法蘭西斯的純粹，以至八大山人的線條，然而藝術家卻不願意被分門別類，始終保持著一貫的創作自由意志。本季登臨蘇富比現代藝術晚拍之《吃我，我是魚》（拍品編號1034），屬藝術家筆下裸女主題的典型佳作，其詼諧戲謔的題目透露作者玩世不羈的生活態度，而豐富的構圖則讓觀者一覽丁雄泉作品中所有經典元素，完滿地表現出其創作全貌。丁雄泉將幾個重要靈感繆斯凑合同框——美人、貓咪和花卉——這不僅是藝術家對當下日常生活的生動詮釋，畫面佈局亦明顯參照了印象派之父愛德華・馬奈的驚世名作《奧林匹亞》，因此本作可被視爲丁雄泉向現代大師致敬的表態，藉此重新演繹該幅經典之精髓，挑戰前人的藝術高度。《吃我，我是魚》中可見藝術家盡情揮灑潑彩，以一種介於具象與抽象之間的姿態，開拓廣納百川的藝術新境地——這正是丁氏渴望超越大師的精神所向，亦是其創意的魅力所在。