羈旅 Mindful Sojourner

—— 康奈爾大學 潘安儀
節選自《Mindful Sojourner羈旅——李佳駿的藝術》

作為一位「靜心旅人」，李佳駿將藝術視為一場孤獨的精神旅程。在他的大學時期，「繪畫已死」的學說隨著後現代主義的引入，開始在台灣藝術界擴散。然而，李佳駿始終堅信繪畫是藝術的核心本質。「繪畫不僅不會消亡，還將永遠在藝術中佔有重要地位。關鍵在於創新與突破。」

在「Mindful Sojourner羈旅」展覽中的作品與李佳駿以往系列有所不同，過去的作品通常具有更強烈的色彩對比，而此次作品的色調則更加柔和。他解釋道：「人生經驗的積累以及『放下』的價值觀是我一直在思考的……是時候該放下，回歸自然。」這種準備其實早已展開。在他之前的展覽圖錄中，李佳駿提出了道家的理念——返璞歸真，作為實現道家「無為」哲學的一種方法。

李佳駿在創作中使用混合媒材與多媒體，其構圖美學直接承襲了西方古典藝術的精髓，同時深受中國書法與繪畫的筆觸質感、動勢及美學的啟發。他經常運用單一消失點和黃金比例作為畫作的結構，將古典美學概念與其現代抽象繪畫表現融鑄一體。

李佳駿的繪畫似乎既參考了自然景觀，又帶有宇宙意象，傳遞出宇宙創生瞬間般的感受與氛圍。在此次展覽中，觀者可以同時聯想到「大爆炸理論」及其相關意象，並深入探尋藝術家「返璞歸真」的精神追求。李佳駿道：「這一組作品兼具中國與西方的特質，但我認為它們反映了另一個哲學層次，那就是無形與廣大。」

A "mindful sojourner," Leroy Lee regards art as a lonely spiritual journey. During his college years, the "painting is dead" doctrine had begun to infiltrate the Taiwanese art field through the introduction of postmodernism. Leroy Lee steadfastly believes that painting by hand is the essence of art. "Not only will painting not die, but painting will forever occupy an important place in art. What is important is new creation and breakthroughs."

Works in the "Mindful Sojourner" exhibition differ from Lee's previous series, in that prior works generally had stronger color contrasts, and now Lee's palette is more subdued. Lee explains, "The accumulation of life experience and the 'letting go' of values is something I have been pondering... It's about time to let it go, to return to nature." This preparation has in fact been going on for some time. in his previous exhibition catalogue, Lee brought forth a Daoist concept, the return to simplicity and truth (fanpu guizhen), as a way of realizing the Daoist philosophy of wuwei ("non-action").

Lee uses mixed media and multimedia, and for compositional aesthetic, he directly inherited the essence of Western classical art. And he was deeply inspired by the texture strokes, dynamic movement and aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy and painting. At the same time, he often uses the single vanishing point and the Golden Section as structure in his paintings as a method of unifying the classical concepts with his modern abstract painting.

Leroy Lee's painting does seem to contain references to landscape, but also resembles cosmic imagery, which convey the feeling and sensation of the moment of creation of the universe. ...In Lee's paintings in this exhibition, viewers can simultaneously make connections to the "big bang theory" and associated imagery, and delve deeply into the artist's spiritual pursuit of "returning to simplicity and truth." The artist himself states, "This group of works is both Chinese and Western, but I think they reflect another philosophical level, which is formless and immense.