Alec Cumming 亞歷克·卡明
Alec is an artist who works internationally, having spent several years working and living in Delhi, India.
Now back in the UK, he is developing and processing the vibrant multi-sensory stimulus that he discovered whilst living in such a vivid place, as well considering other places he has spent lengths of time in throughout his life, such as California and Sri Lanka. This multi-sensory sense of movement within place translates into a ‘pan global’ vocabulary evident in his mixture of Western/Eastern influence in his painting style.
His practice, oil on canvas, is traditional in medium, although the images that jump in and around the canvas are vibrant and playful, exploring the concept of fleeting moments. Within his abstracted painting style there are shapes and forms that lead to suggestions of 'things'. This idea of semi-recognisable forms can suggest a narrative throughout the painting, these forms or shapes can appear through drawings, thoughts, ideas and lived or imagined experiences.
The paintings he creates may suggest spaces he knows, vibrant fabrics or places, or perhaps a moment glimpsed whilst laying poolside, or even a collection of observed objects, such as tyres stacked on the road or a table laden with drinks and paraphernalia.
Many of these elements are enhanced by a desire to explore the way light in space, either imagined or real, enhances the compositions he allows himself to glimpse.
This could be the bright harsh light that makes colours pop or a shimmering hazy light, recognisable from time spent in brighter sunnier parts of the world, California, India, Sri Lanka and Cyprus, The way it soaks its surroundings and makes the paintings vibrate, creating a resonation with this movement and moment, this creates an observation of the world through an imagined place, a playful space that translates into his own vocabulary on canvas
亞歷克(Alec)是一位在國際上工作的藝術家,他在印度德里工作和生活了幾年。
現在回到英國,他正在開發和處理他在如此生動的地方生活時發現的充滿活力的多感官刺激,並考慮他一生中度過了很長一段時間的其他地方,例如加利福尼亞和斯里蘭卡。這種地方內的多感官運動感轉化為「泛全球」詞彙,這在他的繪畫風格中融合了西方/東方影響中顯而易見。
他的畫布油畫實踐是傳統的媒介,儘管畫布上和周圍跳躍的圖像充滿活力和有趣,探索轉瞬即逝的時刻的概念。在他抽象的繪畫風格中,有一些形狀和形式會引發對「事物」的暗示。這種半可識別形式的想法可以在整個繪畫中暗示一種敘述,這些形式可以透過繪畫、思想、想法以及生活或想像的經驗來出現。
他創作的畫作可能暗示他所熟悉的空間、充滿活力的織物或地點,或者可能是躺在池畔時瞥見的瞬間,甚至是一系列觀察到的物體,例如堆放在路上的輪胎或擺滿飲料和用具的桌子。
其中許多元素都因探索太空中的光(無論是想像的還是真實的)的願望而得到增強,增強了他允許自己瞥見的構圖。
這可能是使色彩流行的明亮刺眼的光線,也可能是閃閃發光的朦朧光線,可以從在世界上陽光明媚的地區度過的時光中識別出來,加利福尼亞,印度,斯里蘭卡和塞浦路斯,它浸透周圍環境並使繪畫振動的方式,與這個動作和時刻產生共鳴,這創造了透過一個想像的地方對世界的觀察,一個有趣的空間,轉化為他自己在畫布上的詞彙