安卓藝術將於8月推出我們慶祝畫廊15週年的第二場展覽「石晉華」。作為畫廊追念藝術家石晉華於2024年夏天因為車禍意外往生的一次特別展出，本展匯聚了安卓成立以來在不同時期推薦的石晉華作品，包含其最為人知的「走筆」系列與《走鉛筆的人》，兼容「行走」與「測量」概念的《今日藝術》、《一千日》和《胰島日月記——2019年10月》以及為數不多卻是藝術家後期最為享受繪畫樂趣的「油畫」系列。展出的多件《走筆》於私人收藏十多年來未曾曝光，是次也獲得藏家支持下難得借出亮相。展覽定於2025年8月16日至9月20日之間舉行，並於8月16日下午2:30邀請長年與藝術家合作的策展人陳宏星老師與收藏家陳泊文醫師進行座談，分享他們心中的石晉華。開幕茶會接續於當日下午四點半舉行，我們誠摯請您的蒞臨。
自從17歲診斷出幼年型糖尿病後，驗血、記錄、注射胰島素就成為石晉華生命中每日進行的日常。而他在系統學習觀念藝術後，「測量」這個原本只為保證生命而被迫進行的行為，卻轉而成為他賦予自己生命意義與價值的機會。藝術家將其轉化為藝術創作的「形式」，藉以表達其嚴肅、沉重，或幽默、抒情的「內容」。在《胰島日月記》中，石晉華以一個月的時間，連續每日將自己所需的胰島素劑量用注射器打出，混合鉛筆的筆觸在水彩紙上留下充滿韻律節奏的線條和其模糊的暈染。這31個團線的塗畫，串接起藝術家個人生存的藥物治療和藝術轉化下的切身體驗，表達其生命裡獨特的時間與藝術刻度。而十年前完成的《一千日》，則是石晉華將其佛教信仰與個人測量行為交融的代表。藝術家每日持唸「南無地藏王菩薩」一千遍，如此持續一千日，並在每日刺破手指驗血糖時將血滴留在宣紙上，在血點下方用鉛筆記錄當日持念佛號的次數，以三年多的時間完成這件經典的行為藝術。《一千日》中的每一個點都是藝術家匯聚精神，將內心專注於一件事物的具象化。對石晉華而言，這一千個點是點在心中的的同一處，是「一個菩提的心苗，永不放棄，直到圓滿」。石晉華將每日為延續生命而做的測量與記錄昇華為對內在精神的儀式性探索與呈現。
Mind Set Art Center will launch a new exhibition titled “Shi Jin-Hua” on August 16 as part of our ongoing celebration of the gallery’s 15th anniversary. The event is also set to commemorate the career of the titular artist, who tragically passed away in a traffic accident in the summer of 2024. The exhibition will put on display key works from different periods of Shi’s career, most notably the “Pen Walking” series and its culmination piece, “Pencil Walker”, “Art Today”, which incorporates the idea of “walking” and “measurement”, as well as “One Thousand Days” and “Insulin Journey, October”. The show will also display the rarely exhibited oil painting that Shi deeply enjoyed making his later years. Thanks to generous loans from our collectors, we get to exhibit several pieces in the “Pen Walking” series for the first time in public. The exhibition is scheduled to run from August 16 to September 25, 2025. A panel discussion featuring curator Chen Hung-Hsing and collector Dr. Chen Po-Wen is set at 2:30 PM on opening day, August 16, followed by an opening reception at 4:30 PM. We cordially invite you to join this commemorative celebration.
Shi Jin-Hua was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 17. He has since had to incorporate blood tests, documentation and insulin injection in his daily routine. After systematically studying conceptual art, this act of "measurement" - originally a necessity for his survival – was transformed into an opportunity to imbue his life with meaning and value. The artist converted these medical routines into artistic "form" to express his inner spiritual "contents", be it solemn and heavy, or humorous and lyrical. In his “Insulin Journal”, Shi, for a month, repeated a daily ritual in which he injected his required daily dose of insulin on watercolor paper and mix it with pencil strokes to create rhythmic lines with blurred bleedings. He ended up creating 31 clustered smudges that connect the artist's personal medical treatment with his artistic transformation, mapping his unique temporal and creative experience. His earlier work “One Thousand Days”, completed a decade ago, represents the fusion of his Buddhist faith with this measurement practice. As the title suggests, the work is the results of the artist’s one-thousand-day commitment during which he recited the "Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" one thousand times daily. Shi left blood droplets on Xuan paper, underneath which he recorded the number of chants. The entire work took over three years to complete. Each of the one thousand blood marks embodies the artist's spiritual concentration, they are the manifestation of the artist’s mental focus on one thing. For Shi, all the marks on paper ultimately converge to a single point in his mind, where “a sacred fig persists until its full growth”. Through these works, Shi has elevated the essential measurements preserving his physical life into ritualistic explorations and manifestations of his inner spirituality.
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