The Big Event (7)

作品賞析

The works of artist Huang Shih-Lun begin from life experiences, and the various scenes of disaster that he paints are expressions of his life experiences and reflections on them. “The Big Event” series started in 2016, and they have proceeded from realistic depictions of a tornado and the eye of a typhoon in the beginning to the more recent works, which capture only details of disaster scenes. With its dramatic yet poetic arrangement and combination of elements such as fog, lumps, mountains, and a light beam, the disaster this time turns into an epic visual collision full of the shocking collision aesthetic. In The Big Event (7), a beam of light from the sky penetrates the dark night and enters a large foggy cloud. It seems as if a disaster is about to occur, but we still do not know what it will be—it is like the scene-setting before a movie climax. This sense of the unknown produces a sense of dread in the viewer—it is the moment when human fragility appears.