來自大地的祝福 2019-2020典藏捐贈展

2020年，蔓延全球的Covid-19彷彿是來自大地的一道警訊，臺灣身為海島國家，受惠於海洋的天然屏障而相對遠離嚴峻的疫情，是以我們帶著大地所給予的祝願，盼在後疫情時代中尋求新定位，重建人與宇宙萬物共生的新關係。 自法人化以來，高美館提出「大南方South Plus」，以「關鍵典藏」為策略展開蒐藏行動，2019年啟用以典藏為核心的「大南方多元史觀特藏室」，首部曲展覽「南方作為相遇之所」更是歷時三年，立基於兩項研究計畫，結合空間改造的當代策展。在此，「大南方」象徵多元史觀，直面南方所蘊涵的變動性，透過建構多元化的藝術判準，扣合典藏作品的再詮釋，意欲跳脫西方現代主義、單一敘事的史觀，建立屬於高雄「經典作品」的意義。 調閱近兩年的典藏，我們從「人與土地如何共生」的提問出發，規劃了兩檔展覽，探索南方多元的文化語境。典藏捐贈展「來自大地的祝福」，取自藝術家林惺嶽在國際博物館協會（ICOM）京都大會臺灣展的主題背景——《受大地祝福的山》，以橫跨山間的彩虹象徵臺灣多元共融的文化，展現對大地的祝願，此作同時也是2019年度捐贈中尺幅最大之作。而後依循如劉啟祥、李俊賢描繪的山海風景，葉竹盛、徐永旭在材質創作中展現自然物質的轉譯，陳伯義拍攝遷村後的家屋空景，牽引現代國家中他者的現身，侯淑姿的亞洲新娘影像勾畫出人在移動過程的心境軌跡，試圖由體驗風土，以及 生態、移民、國族的理解、反思與想像中，召喚人對地方的精神感知，思索多重認同的可能。同時在104空間展出的典藏展亦延續此脈絡，持續探問與土地相關的多元議題。 在追尋關鍵典藏的過程中，高美館深切感謝各位藝術家、家屬與收藏家的支持，在看見典藏特藏室的成果後，主動透過捐贈完整化本館的收藏，這些美意，對我們正在進行的「關鍵典藏」策略，屢有加乘之效。在未來，高美館冀望透過典藏積累城市文化記憶，蔓生出與全球多元對話的節點，如漣漪般拓延出「大南方」的文化座標。 指導單位：高雄市政府文化局 主辦單位：高雄市立美術館 The COVID-19 pandemic, like a serious warning from nature, swept the globe in 2020. As an island state, Taiwan is protected by the natural barrier of the surrounding sea and has stayed relatively safe from the severe pandemic scene. For this reason, with the blessings from the earth, we hope to discover a new position in the post-pandemic era and reconstruct the new coexistence between humanity and everything in the cosmos. Since its organization reform into a public agency, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA) has proposed the concept of “South Plus” and expanded its collections based on the policy of “essential collections.” In 2019, the collection gallery built around the KMFA collection – South Plus: Constructing historical pluralism from the KMFA collection was launched. Its first exhibition, South as a Place of Gathering, which was combined with the museum’s space reconfiguration, was a contemporary curatorial project that took three years of diligent efforts and was developed from two research projects. “South Plus,” serving as a symbol of historical pluralism, explores the underlying changeability of the South. By constructing diversified artistic criteria and re-interpreting the museum’s collections, “South Plus” aims to break free from Western modernist historical interpretation based on single-perspective narrative to further establish the meaning of the “iconic artworks” emblematic of Kaohsiung. After surveying its collections acquired in the past two years, the museum begins with the idea of “coexistence between humanity and the land” and curates two exhibitions that respectively investigate into the diverse cultural context of the South. The exhibition featuring the works donated to the museum, entitled Blessings from the Earth – Gifts to KMFA 2019-2020, is inspired by Lin Hsin Yueh’s Mountains Blessed by the Earth, which has served as the key image of the Taiwan Pavilion at the general conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 2019 in Kyoto, Japan. With a prismatic rainbow arching across Taiwan’s mountains to symbolize the pluralistic and inclusive culture in Taiwan, the painting demonstrates good wishes for the earth and is the largest one among the works donated to KMFA in 2019. The exhibition also includes the works by Liu Chi-hsiang and Lee Jiun-shyan that depict the landscape of mountains and sea, the works by Yeh Chu-sheng and Hsu Yung-hsu that interpret natural materials through the creation of their chosen mediums, the photographs of Chen Po-i that captures the empty houses after the relocation of villages and unveils the others in modern nations, as well as the images of Asian brides by Lulu Shur-tzy Hou that portray people’s evolving state of mind during transnational movement. The exhibition invites the audience to experience and appreciate the land and its people to evoke a spiritual perception of the place through understanding, reflecting on and imagining ecology, migration and nation. Meanwhile, the other exhibition focusing on the KMFA collection in Gallery 104 also continues this curatorial context to explore diversified issues related to the land. Throughout the process of seeking the essential collections, KMFA is deeply grateful for the support from all the artists, their families and the collectors, who have actively donated the artworks to help bring the KMFA collection closer to completion after seeing the result of the collection gallery. Their kindness has generated a synergistic effect together with the museum’s current policy of “essential collections.” In the future, KMFA hopes to continue accumulating the city’s cultural memory through the collection, foster nodes of diverse dialogues with the globe, and ripple outward the cultural coordinates of the “South Plus.” Supported by Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Kaohsiung City Government Organized by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts