潘明谷（Miguel Angel Payano, Jr.）: 隐现
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Installation View: Miguel Angel Payano Jr: Elusive Nature

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洛杉矶Make Room画廊荣幸宣布潘明谷（Miguel Angel Payano, Jr.）在西海岸的首次个展，隐现（Elusive Nature）。

 

潘明谷的作品邀请观众带着"你在这里吗？还是你在那里？"的疑问句探索跨文化下的个人身份议题。潘出生于纽约市的多米尼克移民家庭，他一生都在三个不同的环境之间做文化的过客：他在华盛顿高地的西班牙语飞地度过童年；他在神圣的英语礼堂接受美国教育；以及他在北京的新家里度过大学之后的成年时光。

 

潘明谷的作品表明"你在这里吗？还是你在那里？"这个问题更多的是修辞而不是绝对的。它完美地概括了潘明谷所说的他的"三重意识"的核心，一个基于W.E.B DuBois提出的非裔美国人文化不和谐理论的表达，艺术家通过他的多重文化身份（非裔拉丁人、美国人和中国人）的镜头不断分析他自己的行为。三重意识和跨国主义刺激了习惯性的语码转换（code-switching），即在特定的文化能指或语体之间跳跃转换。就个人而言，这种行为模式使潘明谷创造的图像和物体在视觉上、概念上、和指称上都发生了变化，经常以拟人化的举隅法的形式存有。

 

桃子，也许是潘明谷最具代表性的参照物，是一个最好的例子。将嘴巴融合到桃子上的做法有多个灵感来源。在潘明谷的想法中，有嘴的桃子成为"单细胞"的人类。嘴巴成为使桃子独特地个体化的一个组成部分，而桃子相对简单的形状有利于他们进入到更复杂的场景和隐喻中。

 

隐现（Elusive Nature）当中的作品进一步讨论了了潘明谷对文化素养的兴趣，特别是形成文化思想灌输的途径和权力结构。系谱学在主题上和物理空间中同时存在。本次展览中的作品提供了一个对潘明谷实践演变的几乎全面的测绘。这些视觉主题出现在以目前、孩子和家庭单位为主题的绘画作品中，以及潘明谷经典的组合拼贴作品中-结合绘画和雕塑的人像墙面作品，由不同的表面和材料堆积而成。

 

潘明谷的组合拼贴作品中常常有一种自然的解构，与它们的材料组成相一致。人物的头部使用风景的图像绘制，他们的眼睛重叠着瓶盖，他们的嘴里是成熟的桃子，这些桃子往往还连着枝桠。这种人体和自然之间的共融感在他所绘制的在大海与云层的坍塌之间倒置的人腿系列作品中得到了进一步的体现。这些人物在飞行和溺水、天堂和大地、可想象的和荒诞不羁之间徘徊，唤起了一种深刻的崇高感。

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