Eelco Brand

作品說明

            在西方繪畫的傳統中，風景畫以及風俗畫的場景佔有主要的地位，Brand的作品可以說是屬於這種圖畫式的傳統，而也超越了傳統形式的類型。看起來十分寫實的風景畫，卻結合了抽象的元素、謬奇性、以及幽默感，這些都經常可見於Brand的作品中。風景畫挑起了觀者的一種似曾相識感──是一種完全由視覺建構的刻板印象，但卻有著強烈的表現力量。然而，任何對於風景的視覺化形式，即便是那些我們以心靈之眼所想像的風景，難道不都是被建構出來的嗎？Brand的作品在在鼓勵我們去思考有關人類對於真實之感知的問題。

            在Brand的影像中，觀者毫不費力地就可以改變他們的視角：像蟲子一般蠕動著、在水的表面上下浮動。許許多多蘑菇變成漂浮的水母狀態。這些短片的慢動作、無限重複的迴圈，幾近療癒性地播放著，且與任何我們對於動態影片的期待毫不相符。

Introduction

            The oeuvre of Eelco Brand belongs to a pictorial tradition in which landscape and genre scenes play a leading role, but goes beyond the traditional forms of this genre. Realistically looking landscapes are combined with abstract components, absurdity and humour are constantly accompanying the artworks of Eelco Brand. The landscapes seem familiar to us, evoking the impression of having seen them before - stereotypes, completely virtually constructed, but of a strong expressive power. But is not any form of visualisation of landscapes constructed, even those we see in our mind's eye when we imagine a landscape? The artworks of Eelco Brand encourages us to think about our perception of reality.

            In Brand's films the viewer is effortlessly changing perspectives: crawling like bugs, moving below and above a water surface. Mushrooms turn into floating jellyfish-like forms. The slow movements as well as the endlessly repeating loop of the short films are nearly meditativeand do not meet in any respect with the expectation that we have of animated films.