《使徒降臨》—廖文彬個展

《The Apostle Comes》- Solo Exhibition by Johnny Leo

展出藝術家｜廖文彬 Artist｜Liao Wen-Ping

開幕時間｜2021/08/06 (五)  6:00pm Opening｜2021/08/06 (Fri.)  6:00pm

展覽時間｜2021/08/06 (五) - 2021/09/05(六)

Duration｜2021/08/06 (Fri.) - 2021/09/05 (Sat.)

新苑藝術將於8月6日至9月5日隆重推出廖文彬的個展《使徒降臨》，開幕活動謹訂於8月6日（週五）。這是新苑藝術首次邀請廖文彬舉辦個展，也是廖文彬睽違八年的個展。這次他將帶來系列作品《使徒》手稿與角色插圖。

廖文斌早年以《少年黃飛鴻》打開知名度，近年完善並擴充構思二十年的使徒系列作品，並於去年出版漫畫《使徒》。《使徒》的創作本身突破自身的創作侷限，不同於廖文彬早期創作中，受本土文學作品影響的中華風漫畫。《使徒》蘊含大量歐美文化元素，引用聖經中墮天使的故事作為創作核心，並以紐約為背景的現代奇幻作品。

在混亂無序的反烏托邦世界，主角米開爾遊走在黑白之間，曾經的大天使與現在的陰間掌管使者，兩個看似背道而馳的身份中，存在的道德張力卻恰恰展現人類命運的常態——生活中沒有徑渭分明的正義或邪惡。廖文彬：「我試圖藉由主角的視野，讓讀者重新了解人類的本質是純真善良的，因為我們跟神鬼之間最大差異是愛。」

台灣漫畫家廖文彬，早年以數短篇漫畫刊載於永全出版《烏龍院》半月刊。1985年以改編自黃春明小說〈兩個油漆匠〉同名短篇漫畫刊載於《歡樂漫畫》正式出道。此後開始從事自由創作。創作出版龍少爺、少年黃飛鴻、電玩小子等12本漫畫單行本，其作品在華人地區廣受喜愛，曾在法國安古蘭漫畫節、美國聖地牙哥動漫展、上海當代藝術館等地展出。

Galerie Grand Siècle is pleased to present our new exhibition, ‘The Apostle Comes’ solo exhibition by Johnny Leo, which will be held from 6 AUG to 5 SEP 2021. The opening reception will be on 6 AUG. This is our first time to present Johnny’s work, and is also his latest solo exhibition long after his last exhibition 8 years ago. The exhibition includes manuscripts from the series Apostle and a number of character illustrations Johnny had drawn in the past 25 years.

Johnny Leo first gained his reputation through the series Young Master（少年黃飛鴻）. Recently he finished Apostle, a series he spent over 20 years conceiving the stories and finally came out as a breakthrough in his narrative style. Unlike his early works influenced by Taiwan’s native literature, Johnny infused elements from the Western culture into Apostle: a fantasy inspired by the story of the fallen angel in Christian mythology, but the stage set in the modern New York city.

In Apostle, Michael the protagonist, who was an archangel and the current afterlife guardian of the underworld, wanders in a dystopian world of great chaos. His antithetical identities generate a moral tension which sheds light on the normality of human fate and calls into question the porous boundary between good and evil. There is no absolute evil or good. “Through the vision of Michael, I tried to convey to my readers that kindness is human nature” Johnny explained, “because the greatest difference between human and gods is love.”

Johnny Leo is a Taiwanese comic artist. In his early years, he published his short works on the bimonthly Oolong Courtyard（烏龍院）. Later, in 1985, he began his career as a comic artist by serializing Two Painters （兩個油漆匠）on Joy Comics（歡樂漫畫）, a story adopted from Huang Chunming’s novel of the same name. The artist had totally published 12 comic books including Dragon Lord（龍少爺）, Young Master, and Game Boy（電玩小子）, and his works have enjoyed popularity among Chinese communities. Johnny had participated in Animamix Biennial at MOCA Shanghai, 2009, and Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018 and 2019.

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