阿詩士．高許／印度
地球的警訊
天然植物、竹子、線、棉布
Ashish Ghosh／India
Warning for the Globe
natural vegetation, bamboo, wire, cotton cloth
創作經歷
高許過去十多年來主要的創造都是大型的戶外藝術裝置，主要的訴求是強調文化與大自然的關係，所以作品都是與環境有關的議題為主，同時是以在地的地理，文化，及社會的架構來進行一場文化的新體驗。曾參與過北京國際美術雙年展及2008奧林匹克美術大會。
2008奧林匹克美術大會是國際奧林匹克委員會主辦的國際藝術活動，他在美國擔任駐村藝術家期間，他的裝置藝術在 2007年康乃迪克州的I公園展示。
他在2006和2007間在義大利拿波里斯國際當代藝術館百大藝術家及（發現印度），同時他於2004也參加希臘雅典的國際視覺藝術大賽。2002年他的雕塑品「寂寞的地球」陳列於奧地利，2004年他在賽浦路斯的尼古西尼參加諾曼第慶典，他的大作「輝煌」也在義大利（Musco internazionale delle Cer amiche Faenze）展示，2000年他參加奧地利維也納的藝術森林---二和立陶宛維爾紐斯的露天博物館。
他也榮獲印度政府多樣的補助獎勵金，2008年他榮獲印度藝術協會印度棲地中心傑出新藝術家獎。他出生於印度西孟加拉，於2001年取得Vusva-Bharati 大學美術碩士學位主修雕塑，目前任教於該所大學藝術科。此行是第一次訪問台灣，妻子也與他同行，協助裝置藝術的創作。
Ashish Ghosh’s primary work for the last decade has been large-scale, site- specific environmental sculpture installations. Ghosh focuses on the relationship of nature to culture, creating work based on environmental issues, as well as cultural experimental forms based on the geological, cultural, and social structure of each site.
His most recent outdoor sculpture was “The Nest” permanently installed at Beijing Olympic Park in Beijing, China. He participated in the Beijing International Art Biennale of 2008, Olympic Fine Arts 2008. Olympic Fine Arts 2008 is an international art event organized by the International Olympic Committee. His outdoor sculpture was also installed at I-Park, in Connecticut, in 2007, during an artist in residency in America. Ghosh took part in “Hundred Artists for the Museum” and “India Revealed” at the Casoria Museum, Naples, Italy in 2006/2007. He also attended ARTIADE – 2004, Olympic of Visual Arts in Athens, Greece.
His sculpture “Lonely Planet” was installed in Austria in 2002. He participated in Nomadifesta – 2004 in Nicosia, Cyprus. His work “Splendour” has been exhibited in Musco internazionale delle Ceramiche Faenza (RA) Italy in 2003. He participated in Art Forest-2 in 2000 at Wien, Austria, and Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2001. He has won several scholarships from the national government of India and received the Art India, Indian Habitat Centre Promising Artist Award for the year 2008.
Ashish Ghosh was born in West Bengal, India, and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Vusva-Bharati University in 2001. He is now teaching art classes at this same university in West Bengal, India. This will be his first visit to Taiwan, and he plans to bring his wife with him to help with his installation at Guandu Nature Park.
創作理念
我們的地球已經遭逢威脅，飲用水正快速的枯竭，森林的砍伐的行為也破壞了環境，地球的溫度正在上昇，我們都在熱烈討論著全球暖化的議題。因人類魯莽的行為已威脅到了地球，而人口的增加，使愈來愈多的水泥叢林掩蓋了美麗的大自然。
在這個裝置藝術之中，我嘗試著呈現出對地球命運的感受，也是出自內心深處的悲慟。棉布包裹的地球象徵著人造的水泥世界，因負荷過重而使地球半沈入水中。天然植物織成的地球代表著平衡的生態，強調著人類和大自然是可以彼鄰而居，並且在一個平衡的生態中各取所需。
Statement
This globe is in danger. Drinking water is rapidly being exhausted; deforestation is destroying the environment. The temperature of the earth is increasing, and we are having long discussions about global warming. Nature is terrorized by the imprudent activities of human beings. Increased human populations are trying to take shelter in a jungle of concrete that is enveloping the natural world.
In my sculpture I have tried to express my deep concern and agony about the fate of the earth. I have made one globe of cotton cloth that is a symbol of the man-made concrete world. With another globe made of natural vegetation, I have tried to express a balanced ecological world where nature and man are neighbors balancing their ecological needs.
