[Digital Exhibition 網上展覽] David Clarke: Colour in Space 藝彩相映： 祈大衛的色彩空間 The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong is thrilled to present David Clarke: Colour in Space, an exhibition displaying giclée prints of the artist’s own watercolour paintings. By presenting one medium as another, Clarke develops an abstract art that plays with scale and explores different materialities. The images capture both the translucency and opacity of the carefully applied watercolours, while the digital printing technology helps to represent or transfer the design into a scalable print form.Beyond the multifaceted visual qualities of these works, Clarke is interested in the relation and transfer of words into images and vice versa. Where abstract art is less confined to representing definable subject matter, the ability of visual compositions to represent verbal content offers a tangible or readable dimension. Clarke, who has previously collaborated with composers and writers in response to his photographs, now invites a composer and visual artist to draw inspiration from the paintings central to his current project.The group of images is complemented by a piece of music composed by Chan Hing-yan. Clarke and Chan have worked together on several projects, including a past exhibition at UMAG. This collaboration further demonstrates Clarke’s cross-disciplinary approach, using his visual displays as a stimulus and starting point for responses from artists in other fields.Each work is also accompanied by a comment from Dawn-joy Leong, a scholar and multi-media artist based in Singapore. Her reading of the images adds a further dimension. By offering her interpretation, Leong provides content and adds verbal meaning to Clarke’s visual images, multiplying the latter’s intention to represent words in images and images in words. Furthermore, physics professor Terry Boyce offers his own impression of the original watercolour painting. The presentation of these responses invites reflection, offering not a conclusive evaluation, but rather a personal and emotional engagement with Clarke’s work. Visitors can view this as a further introduction and the starting point to their own analysis of the artist’s use of colour in space.香港大學美術博物館欣然呈獻「藝彩相映：祈大衛的色彩空間」展覽，展出祈大衛的個人水彩畫作的數位版畫。祈氏透過將一種藝術媒介以另一種媒介呈現，繼而發展出一種靈活操縱尺寸大小，同時探索不同物料性質的抽象藝術形式。這些作品捕捉了精心暈染的水彩顏料的透亮度和遮蓋度的特性，而數碼印刷科技有助於令作品的視覺設計得以重現於或轉化成一種可調節尺寸的印刷形式。在這些作品所蘊含的多元視覺性之外，祈氏對文字與圖像之間的關聯和雙向轉譯深感興趣。抽象藝術並不拘泥於只表達具體題材，而視覺構圖則能夠用於表達言辭文句，賦予了作品一個容讓觀者感知、易於解讀的面向。祈氏曾與作曲家及作家合作，對他的攝影作品作出回應。在此次項目中，祈氏邀請了一位作曲家和一位視覺藝術家從是次項目的核心——祈氏的畫作中汲取靈感。是次展出的作品與陳慶恩所創作的一首樂曲相得益彰。祈氏與陳氏曾就不同的項目合作，當中包括港大美術博物館的一個過往展覽。此次協作進一步展現祈氏的跨學科創作方式，他以自己的視覺作品為靈感泉源，引發其他範疇的藝術家作出回應。另外，每幅作品各附有由新加坡學者兼多媒體藝術家梁秀文撰寫的一則評論。她對這些圖像的理解為作品增添一個更深層的面向。通過她的註釋，梁氏為祈氏的視覺作品賦予意涵，及加上另一重文字意義，加深祈氏旨在以圖像表達文字、以文字表達圖像的創作意念。此外，物理教授貝達理就祈氏的水彩畫作原稿提出他的個人見解。這種呈現方式透過他者回應來邀請觀者內省思考，促進他們與祈氏的作品產生一種個人及情感方面的連繫，而非為了提出一個決定性的評價。觀者可以視之為一段更為深入的引言，作為他們賞析祈氏在空間中的色彩運用的起點。 Date/Time: 01/07/2025 to 30/06/2026 15:00-16:00 Organized by: University Museum and Art Gallery

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