展期 Period：
2024.7.9—2024.8.31
艺术家 Artist：
地点 Venue：
马凌画廊 Kiang Malingue（香港田湾）
前言 Introduction：
马凌画廊于田湾空间12层呈献郑波创作的三组「写生」作品。此次展示将《写生（立春）》、《写生（雨水）》及《写生（惊蛰）》（全部创作于2022年）三组作品转换为传统的册页形式，揭示了郑波写生行动所体现的亲切入微感，以及写生作为反百科全书式实践的意义。
自2020年以来，居住于大屿山的郑波频繁拜访其家周围山岭上的植物「邻居」，并在郁郁葱葱的自然环境中创作「写生」系列绘画作品。对于郑波来说，此种写生要求实践者花时间去了解植物；他也把这种平和的艺术创作方式与冥想相提并论。系列创作的英文标题「Drawing Life」颠倒了「life drawing」概念对人类主题的关注，强调了对非人类存在的青睐。
「写生」系列中的每一组作品均以二十四节气命名——如「立春」、「谷雨」、「芒种」、「白露」等——作品再现了不同气候事件中的植物型态，展示了自然现象的多样发展。郑波在近年的写生过程中不再借助软件、网站或书籍去辨认植物，而是满足于在绘制过程中与植物共处的状态，以缓慢、细致的方式观察并欣赏自然。
郑波通过「写生」发展了一种对植物的政治生活的独特理解。这些小品式的画作是其多个大型创作项目的前奏或后记，以细致入微的创作姿态记录了生命的循环。
Kiang Malingue is pleased to announce a display of three sets of Zheng Bo's "Drawing Life" works on paper on the 12th floor of its Tin Wan space. The new iterations of Drawing Life (Beginning of Spring), Drawing Life (Rain Water), and Drawing Life (Waking of Insects), all made in 2022, bind the individual works in the form of traditional Chinese art albums, emphasising the intimacy and counter-encyclopedic aspect of Zheng Bo's drawing practice.
Since 2020, Zheng Bo has been creating an ongoing series of "Drawing Life" drawings by visiting their plant neighbors up the hills behind their village on Lantau Island and sketching them. For Zheng Bo, drawing means spending time getting to know the plants. They describes how this peaceful practice "feels like a meditation." The title of the series inverts the conventional artistic practice of life drawing in which people are depicted, signalling instead how Zheng Bo focuses their attention beyond the human.
Individually named after 24 terms in the traditional East Asian lunisolar calendar—such as Beginning of Spring (the 1st of the 24 solar terms, referring often to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 315°), Rain Water (the 2nd of the 24 solar terms), and Waking of Insects (the 3rd of the 24 solar terms)—the drawings correspond to particular ecological events and signify diverse developments of natural phenomena. In recent years, Zheng Bo has become less interested in identifying the species by using apps, websites, and books, than in simply sitting and being with them, slowing down, looking carefully and appreciating nature.
With "Drawing Life", Zheng Bo has developed an understanding of the politics of plants, as well as making notes that serve as both prologues and epilogues in-between other major artistic-ecological projects, recording the cycle of life in detail.
