《Dream Life 夢想誌》〈林葆靈 以光勾勒的夜之國度〉| Lin Bao Ling: Light Up the Dark

《Dream Life 夢想誌》 2016年 1月 第8期 頁99
Dream Life Magazine, January 2016, Issue No. 8

Light Up the Dark

林葆靈 

LIN Bao Ling


以光勾勒的夜之國度

資料整輯／許芷綺 資料、圖片提供／索卡藝術中心、照無眠一林葆靈個展畫冊：「黑光黑」鄭勝華、照無眠一林葆靈個展畫冊：「複數影像的外延意義」沈耿立

喜歡夜晚因光的照耀堆疊起的層次，看林葆靈的畫好似從暗處走向最接近燈光的地方，如爬階梯，一級一級的邁入另一個國度。

Enchanted by the layers formed through the illumination of light at night, viewing Lin Bao Ling’s paintings feels like walking out from the darkness toward the place closest to the light—like climbing a staircase, step by step entering another realm.

靜止的黑暗與光明

從小在家自學，13歲隨家人去新加坡成長的林葆靈，作品主要都以壓克力顏料和油彩為繪畫媒材，並以描繪城市夜晚光影的畫作聞名·2006年取得純美術榮譽學士文憑。在新加坡拉薩爾藝術學院時便屢屢獲獎，也開始有畫廊邀約展覽·他曾提到自己的創作是以不斷流動易位的光與影，構成模糊且沒有明顯的地景以及地物；意圖表現出一種精神氛圍、內心戚受，甚至自以為的事物背後表象真實。他說明這些象徵意義的黑暗與光明，宛若呈現擺盪不定又轉瞬即逝的狀態感。

1.《東京夜曲》2015/複合媒材、製圖膠片191×179 cm
1.Tokyo Nocturne 2015/mixed media on multimedia vellum 191 x 179 cm

Stillness, Darkness, and Light

Raised through homeschooling from an early age, Lin Bao Ling moved to Singapore with his family at the age of thirteen. His works are primarily created using acrylic and oil paint, and he is best known for paintings depicting the interplay of light and shadow within urban nightscapes. In 2006, he received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fine Arts. While studying at LASALLE College of the Arts, he won numerous awards and also began receiving invitations from galleries to exhibit his work.

He has described his creations as being composed of constantly shifting and flowing light and shadow, forming blurred landscapes and indistinct structures without clearly defined scenery or objects. Through these works, he seeks to express a kind of spiritual atmosphere, inner emotion, and even what he perceives as the hidden reality behind appearances. He explains that the symbolic darkness and light in his paintings present a state of instability and transience—something wavering and fleeting, vanishing in an instant.

穿越想像、象徵和真實之中

橫跨攝影與繪畫的特殊性格，讓他的作品存有一種兩極化的辯證關係，從立體的攝影方式開始再至平面的繪畫現場，觀看經驗在多次的回讀中，不斷重複先前與現在的視覺經驗，證明林葆靈不全然的重複畫面中那個我們原來熟悉的模樣，他的作品讓我們以同於生活中，看見真實事物的方式去看見不在場的事物，在穿越想像（The lmaginary）一象徵(The Symbolic）一真實(The Real）的繪畫時間中，暗示平面空間的變動，是為一種空間中的藝術。

2.（夜的幻想曲Iv、Night Fantasia IV) 2015 / 壓克力、製圖膠片/ 103 × 60 cm·
2. Night Fantasia IV 2015 / acrylic on multi media vellum /103 x 60 cm

Traversing Imagination, the Symbolic, and the Real 

Spanning the distinct territories of photography and painting, his works embody a polarized dialectical relationship. Beginning from the spatial mode of photography and moving into the flat pictorial field of painting, the viewing experience repeatedly revisits prior and present visual perceptions through multiple rereadings. This demonstrates that Lin Bao-Ling does not merely reproduce the familiar appearances we once recognized within the image. Instead, his works lead us to perceive absent things in the same way we encounter real objects in everyday life. Within the painterly temporality that traverses the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real, he suggests the transformation of planar space, revealing art as a form of spatial experience.

索卡藝術中心

長期以視覺藝術為主導，自1992年於台南成立至今，長期經營並研究台灣藝術市場·索卡橫跨兩岸，於北京、台北、台南三地，同步有系統地策劃來自日韓、中國、台灣、東南亞等重要藝術展覽·是國內研究亞洲藝術的重要藝術機構。

Soka Art 

Dedicated to the leadership of visual arts since its founding in Tainan in 1992, Soka Art has long been committed to the management and research of the Taiwan art market. With a presence spanning across the Strait in Beijing, Taipei, and Tainan, Soka Art systematically curates significant exhibitions featuring artists from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. It stands as a premier art institution in the country for the study of Asian art.

林葆靈

2011年曾獲金車教育基金會舉辦的「金車新銳油畫獎」第一名，2011年獲美國福瑞門基金會（Freeman Foundation, U.S.A.）的亞洲藝術家獎助赴美國佛蒙特藝術中心駐村兩個月。作品曾於中國、日本、美國、澳洲、馬來西亞與新加坡展出，至今已於海內外舉辦11次個展。現居住與創作於台北。

Lin Bao-Ling 

In 2011, Lin was awarded first prize in the "King Car Young Artist Oil Painting Award" organized by the King Car Education Foundation. That same year, he received the Asian Artist Fellowship from the Freeman Foundation (U.S.A.), which funded a two-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center. His works have been exhibited in China, Japan, the United States, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore. To date, he has held 11 solo exhibitions both domestically and abroad. He currently lives and creates in Taipei.

Dream Life夢想誌2016/l月號第8期
Dream Life Magazine, January 2016, Issue No. 8