题 目：Shirley Irons:Composition / 雪莉·艾恩斯：构图

作 者：Shirley Irons

出 版：Mack ，2024

装 帧：平装，152页

尺 寸：20.3*25.4 cm

“我对我们如何阅读图像感兴趣，多少才足够清晰，反射如何充当光线和记忆。通过使用颜料，我可以让那些侧目者慢慢关注。通过使用摄影，我可以捕捉到它们。

雪莉·艾恩斯 （Shirley Irons） 的这本两卷本出版物汇集了这位艺术家迄今为止的绘画概述，并通过她的短篇散文和故事精选对艺术、艺术创作和风景的多方面反思。艾恩斯以风景碎片和城市内部为主题的微妙油画以她穿越世界时拍摄的照片为基础，将现实细节与抽象的颜料应用相结合，以探索需要多少信息才能使图像清晰易读。

第一卷展示了艺术家在 1988 年至 2019 年间创作的绘画集，其中许多描绘了短暂的空间——例如高速公路、机场和走廊——显得空旷和冷漠。这些转瞬即逝的风景场景，通常捕捉到移动中某人的视角，对侧视和日常物体给予冥想的关注。第二卷标志着 Irons 在大流行封锁期间创作过程的一个转折点，展示了通过观察绘制的静物场景。除了这些安静的画作集外，还有艺术家自己的作品，以洞察力和幽默感思考了观看的本质和静物的流派。

‘I’m interested in how we read images, how little is enough to be legible, how reflections can act as light and memory. By using paint, I can give those side-glances a moment of slow attention. By using photography, I can capture them.’

This two-volume publication from Shirley Irons brings together an overview of the artist’s paintings to date, alongside multifaceted reflections on art, artmaking, and landscape through a selection of her short essays and stories. Irons’s subtle oil paintings of landscape fragments and urban interiors are based on photographs taken as she moves through the world, blending realistic details with abstract applications of paint to explore how much information is necessary to render an image legible.

The first volume presents a collection of the artist’s paintings made between 1988 and 2019, many of which depict transitory spaces – such as highways, airports, and hallways – appearing vacant and aloof. These fleeting landscape scenes, often capturing the perspective of someone on the move, give meditative attention to side-glances and everyday objects. The second volume marks a turning point in Irons’s process prompted by the pandemic lockdown, presenting still life scenes painted from observation. Alongside this quiet collection of paintings are the artist’s own writings considering the nature of looking and the genre of still life with both insight and humour.