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Paul Snell

1968
(AUSTRALIA) AUSTRALIAN

Paul Snell 是一位澳大利亚艺术家,他的创作邀请观众进入一个沉思的空间——一个时间仿佛暂停、前进动力暂时静止的悬浮时刻。他的作品用静止、遗漏和安静反思的瞬间取代了我们这个图像驱动世界的持续饱和,提供了一种扎根的体验,在这里美存在于当下而非进步之中。他现居并工作于塔斯马尼亚的朗塞斯顿。

Paul Snell

教育背景

Snell 于1989年在塔斯马尼亚大学获得美术学士学位,1995年获得塔斯马尼亚大学美术学士(荣誉)学位,2011年获得塔斯马尼亚大学当代艺术硕士学位。

Snell's Work

技法

Snell 创作小批量作品,每件独特作品的印刷数量为一至三件。他的创作过程始于捕捉一个地点或物体。随后,他数字化“解码”该图像中存在的视觉信息。在减少和简化颜色与形态后,他开始一个密集的“重新编码”过程,在此过程中,作品中简化的形式元素在新的构图中发展出自我指涉的关系。这个过程模糊了“拍摄”和“创作”摄影作品之间的界限。当数字构图完成后,Snell 使用 Fujiflex 打印系统将其转换为彩色显影打印,这种系统允许在金属纸上进行明亮、鲜艳、多彩的摄影打印。然后将打印作品装裱在有机玻璃上。Snell 模糊了摄影与绘画的界限,将数字工艺与物质性融合,探索当代摄影媒介中的抽象和极简主义。通过剥离图像的具象清晰度,他让抽象形式浮现,激发感官,创造出绕过传统叙事的新视觉语言。Snell 的作品质询摄影创作的演变本质——操控和利用数字数据发明新的视觉形式。他考察了拍摄与创作摄影、绘画与摄影、物体与屏幕之间不断变化的关系。在这种动态互动中,表面与边缘、反射与吸收成为核心关注点。这些作品不是现实的再现——它们本身就是现实。在一个视觉刺激过载的世界中,Snell 的作品创造了一个暂停、感受和单纯存在的空间。

灵感

Snell 受20世纪现代主义艺术家的启发,通过简化、重复和综合将形态与色彩提炼至本质。他的作品具有明显的绘画效果,被评论家称为“数字绘画”。作品深入探讨色彩的情感与感官力量,通过节奏性的配对、排序和叠加研究光学、光线和物质性。Snell 发展出的视觉词汇受现代主义绘画史,尤其是极简主义和硬边抽象的影响。Snell 曾将自己的艺术实践描述为对“物理对象感官理解”的追寻。

Snell's Work
Snell's Work

相关引言

Snell 描述他的作品时说:“这些作品不是某些现实的再现;它们是它们自身的现实。缺乏符号或物体邀请观众在原始和音调的美学物质中漂浮。目标是让观众沉浸于色彩、节奏和空间,创造一种内在沉思和超越的感官体验。”

展览

Snell 在澳大利亚和塔斯马尼亚广泛展出作品,并在美国有选择性地展出。

收藏

他的作品被众多公共和私人收藏机构收藏,包括路易威登(亚洲)、蒂芙尼(美国、亚洲、澳大利亚)、ArtBank、德文波特地区画廊、伯尼地区画廊和贾斯汀之家博物馆。

画廊

Studio Gallery - 墨尔本和布里斯班
Gallery9 - 悉尼
Gallery Red - 西班牙

Education

2009–11 MCA, University of Tasmania
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), University of Tasmania
1990 Diploma of Education, University of Tasmania
1987–89 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 Reprieve - Gallery 9, Sydney, NSW
2024 Breathe - Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2022 Exhale - Gallery 9, Sydney, NSW
2022 Visceral - Studio Gallery, Armadale, Vic
2021 Longing for Less - Rosny Barn, Hobart Tas
2021 Sub-Liminal - Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier, SA
2020 Dissolve – Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2020 Bleed - Gallery 9, Sydney, NSW
2020 Incidental Contact, Australian Consulate-General, NY
2019 Untitled TZT038, Bos Fine Art, Den Haag
2018 Timbre – Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2018 Vanishing Point, Gallery 9, Sydney, NSW
2017 Mute, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2017 Chromophilia, Gallery 9, Sydney, NSW
2017 The Liminal Space, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, Tas
2016 The Liminal Space, QVMAG, Launceston, Tas
2016 Formal, Gallery 9, Sydney, NSW
2015 Intersect, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2015 Sectant, Gallery 9, NSW
2015 Decoding Sydney, Gaffa, Sydney, NSW
2014 Shift, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2013 Chromophobia, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2013 Decoding New York, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Vic
2013 Chromophobia, Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2013 Chromophobia, Jan Manton Gallery, Qld
2012 Afterimage, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas
2012 The Persistence of Vision, The Colour Factory, Melbourne, Vic
2012 Codes and Conventions, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2011 Afterglow, 146 Artspace, Hobart, Tas

Selected Curated and Group Exhibitions

2024 Debut - &Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 Void - Kunstraum, Heidelberg
2023 Booth H02 - Gallery 9 at Sydney Contemporary
2023 Abstraction – Despard Gallery, Tas
2022 Booth H07 - Gallery 9 at Sydney Contemporary
2021 Art Matter 4 - Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
2021 Orbit - Ten Days On The Island, Poimena Gallery, Tas
2020 Image_Object – MONA FOMA, Poimena Gallery, Tas
2019 Formal - MONA FOMA, Poimena Gallery, Tas
2018 Beyond The Field (Still), Contemporary Art Tasmania, Tas
2018 Colville Gallery at West End Art Space, Vic
2017 SPEED: Mobility & Exchange, Academy Gallery, Tas
2017 There Is No Abstract Art, Devonport Regional Gallery
2016 OP ART, Brenda May Gallery, NSW
2015 NEO-O-10, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Vic
2015 Standback, Moonah Arts Centre, Tas
2014 AT_Salon_2, Anita Treverso Gallery, Vic
2014 Perceptions of Space, Justin Collection, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Vic
2014 The Art of Sound, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tas
2013 Black Echo, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Vic
2013 Abstraction 12, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Vic
2013 Factory 49 @ Stephen McLachlan Gallery, Stephen McLachlan Gallery, Vic

Art Fairs

2024 PAN Amsterdam
2024 AAF Hamburg
2024 AAF Battersea, London
2024 AAF Hampstead
2021 Art Moments, Jakarta, Indonesia
2020 Sydney Contemporary
2020 Intersect Aspen, Aspen, USA2017 Den Fair, Vic
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Vic
2013 Spectrum Art Fair, New York, New York
2013 Art Hamptons, International Art Fair, New York

Selected Art Prizes

2024 Sunshine Coast Art Prize - Qld
2020 The Glover Art Prize – Tas
2018 The Hutchins Art Award, Tas
2018 The Glover Art Prize, Tas
2018 The Blake Prize, National Art School, NSW
2017 Wyndham Art Prize, Vic
2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, NSW
2016 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Qld
2016 The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas
2015 The Whyalla Art Prize, SA
2015 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2015 Paramor Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW
2015 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Qld
2014 The Substation Contemporary Art Award, The Substation, Vic
2014 Tidal Art Prize, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas
2013 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Qld
2013 The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas
2013 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2013 The Glover Art Prize, Tas
2012 Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Regional Gallery, Qld
2012 Tidal Art Prize, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas
2011 The Whyalla Art Prize, SA
2011 The Blake Prize, National Art School, NSW
2011 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Qld

Representation in Private & Public Collections

Louis Vuitton, Asia
Tiffany & Co, US, Asia, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Justin House Museum, Victoria
Pine Rivers Regional Gallery, Brisbane
Art Bank, Australia
Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania

Awards

2025 Winner, Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat,Vic
2015 Winner, Whyalla Art Award, South Australia
2015 Winner, Moreton Bay Art Award, Pine Rivers Gallery, Brisbane
2012 Winner, Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat, Vic
2012 Winner, Tidal Art Prize, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport