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OH CHAI HOO (B.1960)
The Valley
Hanging scroll
Ink on paper
192 x 96 cm. (75 ¬ x 37 æ in.)
Executed in 2016
HK$60,000-80,000
US$7,700-11,000
胡 財 和（1 9 6 0 年 生）
鳥鳴山幽
水墨 紙本 立軸
2016年作
Born in 1960, Oh Chai Hoo spent his childhood
in the pre-industrial Jurong Island, Singapore,
away from the hustle and bustle of urbanity, and
later graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine
Arts in 1982. Reactivating the thousand-year-old
art of stone appreciation with a contemporary
form, his works were included in the permanent
collection of the National Museum Art Gallery,
Singapore. Oh grounds a complex mix of ink
to create a special consistency that allows him
to subsequently use newspaper to mould the
patterns of the rock with meticulous details.
The process ingeniously corresponds with the
geological formation of rocks, which can be seen
as the artist’s homage to nature.
胡財和生於 1960 年，在新加坡裕廊農村度過
童年，遠離都市的塵囂，自幼對自然藝術格外
青睞，後於 1982 年畢業於南洋美專。他的作
品用當代水墨語言詮釋了古代文人賞石之心
境，並納入新加坡國家美術館永久館藏。為了
讓墨汁在紙上黏著而形成更豐富的層次感，他
自研墨汁，大筆刷開任墨汁舒展姿態，再用報
紙在畫面上摩挲，刻畫出岩石千奇百怪的褶皺
效果。順勢而為的創作方式不但展現了胡財和
對墨性的運籌帷幄，更用創作過程本身呼應了
岩層地質的自然天成。
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