Oliver Beer
奥利弗·比尔 Resonance Painting (Cry Me A River) 共振计画《泪流成河》, 2022

The Resonance Painting series visualises the resonant harmonies that Oliver Beer cultivates through his sculptural, painting and performance practices. He explains, ‘people don’t realise that music has physical form: if you could see music vibrating air around us you would see beautiful geometries in three dimensions.’ Works from the series, such as Resonance Painting (Cry Me A River) (2022), allow the artist to capture these geometrical patterns on canvas.

The paintings are created by positioning a speaker beneath a horizontallyoriented canvas upon which dry, powdered pigment has been scattered. Beer plays musical notes that cause the canvas to vibrate, moving and shaping the pigment into visual representations of the sound waves. These appear on the surface of the works in undulating, geometric patterns, which are subsequently frozen in place using a unique fixing technique developed by the artist. Each painting is named after a song that Beer was listening to at the time of making the work, in this example, ‘Cry Me A River’.

《共振计画》(The Resonance Project)系列把奥利弗·比尔(Oliver Beer)透过他的凋塑、绘画与行为表演所建构出来的自然谐波予以视觉化。他解释道:「人们一般不察觉声音也有其物理性的形式:如果你能用肉眼看到音乐在空中震动的频率,你将会看到一些美不胜收的几何形状在立体空间中展开。」在此系列中的作品,例如《共振绘画(泪流成河)》(Resonance Painting (Cry Me A River),2022,艺术就把这些几何图形都捕捉到画布之上。
艺术家先把画布水平摆放在扬声器上,在画布上撒下乾性的粉状颜料,再播放音乐,让色粉随着声波振盪移动,在画布上把音乐以视觉的形式形塑出来。它们最终成为一些波纹状的几何图案,而艺术家立即以他独有的技术把它们的形象凝结在画布上。所有画作都以比尔创作时刚好在聆听的音乐命名之,在这个例子中,他听的刚好就是〈泪流成河〉(Cry Me A River)。