石晉華為2007年獲得台北美術獎的藝術家，1964出生於澎湖，曾任美國紐約P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center MOMA以及台北國際藝術村駐村藝術家。17歲開始，石晉華的生活即與測量和紀錄形影相隨，其作品都與身體緊密相關，如在P.S.1駐村的時候做過《血糖紀錄-前行之一》、《珍珠念珠-前行之二》、《擁抱計畫》、《噴煙計畫》、《量GG計劃》等作品，近期在「活過測量」個展，以身體行為測量「回家的路」、「台北國際藝術的高度」、「市民大道二段的長度」，石晉華以直接面對生命的方式探索藝術與主體存在的關係，作品散發出「高度的身體方程式」，不同於理性的、邏輯的慣性思維。 本書針對展出主題「走筆」，掌握了忘我與直觀的主體情境。他從觀念出發，呈現在觀者眼前的是走筆圖像、文件、錄像、玻璃瓶的走筆碎屑等痕跡並置，作品背後竟是一次又一次的身體與筆所觸動的行徑，揭示物質與非物質之間的美學辯證。藝術家豁達地以赤裸的肉身試煉介入藝術媒材成為互存的主體，就像陽光、空氣一般的自然，去探求心靈的超越，其類似行動繪畫及儀式般的藝術創作，呈現在動靜之間，傳達了古老的問題－藝術是什麼？甚至追問生命是什麼？藝術只是表面的形象嗎？石晉華以自明性的直覺概念，指陳藝術是藝術家創造過程的紀錄，而不是一件物質性的作品。「走筆」靜默地呈現出藝術的救贖精神與本質窺探，提供觀者經驗整個創作的「儀式化」洗禮，進入藝術作品所釋放的語言與意象的絕對共存。
Shi Jin-Hua, born in Penghu in 1964, received the Taipei Arts Award in 2007. He has been a visiting artist at New York's P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center MOMA and Taipei Artist Village. Since he was 17, Shi Jin-Hua's life has been accompanied by measurement and documentation, and his artwork has a close relationship to his body. For example, during his residency at P.S. 1 he created works such as First Preliminary - Being Level, Second Preliminary - Pearl Rosary, Hugging Project, Smoke Blowing Project, Penis Measurement Project, and also work in his recent solo exhibition Living Beyond Measurement at Taipei Artist Village, he has used his body, its functions and various actions and called these processes "the way of going home," "the elevation of Taipei Artist Village," and "the distance of Civic Boulevard 2." Shi Jin-Hua faces life head on, exploring the relationship between his subjective existence and art. Borrowing the term he used for the process of measuring the building at Taipei Artist Village, "bodily formula of the elevation," we can say that "bodily formula" is very essential to Shi Jin-Hua's work and it is quite different from the kind of logical thinking that we are accustomed to.
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