作品標題：河流‧生命‧泉源 Amazon and Danshui Rivers, Waters that Feed Life
作者：丹妮絲‧米蘭與艾瑞‧裴瑞茲 Denise Milan and Ary Perez
國籍：巴西 Brazil
材料：舊木樁、石材、繩子 Wood, stones, rope
作者背景
夫妻檔藝術家丹妮絲‧米蘭與艾瑞‧裴瑞茲，自1989年起聯合創作大型公共藝術；他們的巨大作品在聖保羅與巴西各地、甚至是美國皆可見。1998年這兩位藝術家受芝加哥市府委託，為特定場域創作公共藝術作品「美國庭院」。艾瑞‧裴瑞茲為土木工程師，同時也是藝術家和經營者，2004年創立位於聖保羅的泰羅專案設計公司。丹妮絲‧米蘭則為雕塑家，參與多項集體與個人的公共藝術創作，其作品曾於巴西、美國、日本和歐洲各美術館、藝廊廣泛展出。兩人的創作於聖保羅雙年展展出，並代表巴西參加2000年於德國漢諾威舉行的萬國博覽會；目前於聖保羅與巴西各地，進行一連串名為「地球計劃」的藝術創作。
Artist Background
Denise Milan and Ary Perez, a husband and wife artistic team, have been collaborating since 1989 to create large scale public artworks. Their monumental works can be seen in public spaces in Sao Paulo and other parts of Brazil as well as in the USA. In 1998 the two artists created “America’s Courtyard” a site-specific public artwork, commissioned by the City of Chicago. Ary Perez, as well as being an artist and curator, is a civil engineer and since 2004 has directed the firm of Tero Engenharia e Design Ltds based in Sao Paulo. Denise Milan is an artist who produces her own individual sculptural work as well as the collaborative public artworks. She has exhibited her work widely at museums and other institutions in Braziil, the USA, Japan, and Europe. Milan and Perez have exhibited their works at the Sao Paulo Biennial, and they have represented Brazil in the EXPO 2000 at Hanover.. Germany. They are presently working on several large-scale installations in Sao Paulo and other parts of Brazil.
創作理念
聖保羅市的「地球計畫」是丹妮絲‧米蘭與艾瑞‧裴瑞茲夫妻的聯合創作，進一步延伸「美國庭院」的理念，以明顯易懂方式讓遊客發覺地球上的各個面向，卻不影響自身對藝術、生活與科學的主觀想法，閱聽人猶如於地球的不同層次間移動，顯示錯覺轉換過程中的變化。
台灣的作品是這項計畫的短期版本，除了表達「地球計畫」的邏輯架構，並鼓勵參觀者成為引發藝術創作的元素之一，與植物、石材共同呈現；它呈現人類生命的短暫如風一般，與地球的久遠成反比。構造中放置一個天平，以與生活時刻面臨的不安定性產生互動，卻又同時發現安定的存在。剎那是「地球計畫」此版本的中心思想，它的短暫意象，期待去除人們生命底層對穩定產生錯覺的心理障礙。
Statement
This site-specific installation is a collaborative artwork that continues our interest in creating spaces for contemplation about our environment and human connections to nature, as in our “Project Earth” series. This carries one step further our previous work called “America’s Courtyard,” created for the city of Chicago. Our work creates a maze-like space for viewers to enter and stimulates interventions that allow its visitors to discover the interior and existential path on Earth in a lucid and participative way, without losing the subjectivity that belongs to art, life and science. In its metaphor the observer can move between the layers of Earth, follow the paths of rivers, and experience the layers of existence, acknowledging its various manifestations within its process of transformation- entangled by illusion. “Amazon and Danshui Rivers, Waters that Feed Life,” will focus on two important rivers in the countries of Brazil and Taiwan and encourage people to think more about the importance of water as a source of life and a necessity for its continuation. The work presents a symbolic representation of the rivers with vegetation and stones. Materials collected in Taiwan along the Danshui River and at Guandu Nature Park will be joined with a few stones brought from the Amazon River in Brazil to emphasize the global connection and help us recognize the importance of rivers in our lives in both countries. All rivers have the same essence and connect in the ocean, the great wisdom of our planet.
