2024 Max Bi from TING TING ART SPACE 丁丁藝術空間

馬克斯 (Max Bi) 生於 1973 年義大利布雷西亞。在 90 年代末和 2000 年代初之間，受“游牧引用主義”的啟發，他開始嘗試前所未有的混合表達語言和技術，跨越 20 世紀下半葉的藝術潮流，他是一位精緻的鑑賞家，以創造自己的個人風格。 23 歲時，他開始以不同的方式詮釋藝術，不斷尋求新的繪畫技巧和不同風格的運用。

從他作品中能發現總是有著不變的主題：在尋找自我中的無限解放，對戰爭的仇恨，對人民苦難的體查，對全球化跨國公司的反思。Max Bi的靈感主要來自1980 年代， 1980 年代是文化上的動盪時期，當時盛行全球資本主義、大眾媒體、貧富差距以及以電子流行音樂和嘻哈音樂為代表的獨特的音樂。

在 2000 年代初期，Max Bi在原始黃麻畫布上使用模板和噴罐重現了作家的書法圖形，他們的標籤，類似於原始字形，並從意大利波普藝術的肖像畫中汲取了他的比喻線索。來自帕拉迪諾的部落面具或 Basquiat 風格的塗鴉，但以非正式的方式重新詮釋。Max的作品中用到大量螢光色來表現，這樣的配色時常伴隨著距離感與超現實感，乍看下是鮮豔繽紛的總和，但再往裡面走會發現，他幽默的語彙、文字與交錯的時空變化。

Max Bi's inspiration comes mainly from the 1980s, a time of cultural upheaval with global capitalism, mass media, wealth disparity, and unique music typified by electro-pop and hip-hop. In addition, the 1980s were filled with politically pivotal events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which marked the end of the Cold War. Max Bi was more influenced by important street and graffiti artists of the time such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

In the early 2000s, Max Bi reproduced the writer's calligraphic graphics on raw jute canvas using stencils and spray cans, their labels, which resembled the original glyphs, and took his figurative cues from Italian Pop Art iconography . Tribal masks from the Paladino or Basquiat-style graffiti, but reinterpreted in an informal way. A lot of fluorescent colors are used in Max’s works. This kind of color matching is often accompanied by a sense of distance and surrealism. At first glance, it is the sum of bright and colorful, but if you go deeper, you will find that his humorous vocabulary, words and Alternating space-time changes.

Max Bi's animal series depicts imaginary cityscapes inhabited entirely by animals, where the presence of humans leaves free space for the actions of animals, sharks, wolves and many other animals are the only protagonists in the narrative, carefully Look at these animals all have anthropomorphic features and stand in the foreground with irregular bright color elements superimposed. In these works, animals and humans switch roles, with the former inhabiting the latter, giving life to the scenes and making the viewer wonder whether these cities represent freedom or a cage. Max Bi's artistic language is the result of 20 years of figurative research, in which the artist experimented with a mixture of languages ​​and various expressive techniques. The result of this constant search for novelty and variation led him to draw unambiguous inspiration from the pictorial panorama of Italian Pop Art, such as Palladino's tribal masks or Basquiat's graffiti.