Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. I hold it to be inalienable right of anyone to do it in his own way.
Andy Yen
Born in Taiwan at 1985.
Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts.
Doctor of Applied Arts, National Chiao Tung University.
Master of Fashion and Communications Design, Shih Chien University.
Bachelor of Fine Arts with minor in Drama, National University of Tainan.
Taiwan-based artist Andy Yen has approached multidisciplinary fields of creation such as visual art, fashion, multimedia, installation and photography. As an interdisciplinary artist with a strong personal visual style, he is keen on creating different forms of art and also specializes in interdisciplinary integration. Andy Yen has exhibited his works in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Taipei, Tokyo, New Delhi, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Andy Yen’s works between art and design. He also with some of the units like Swatch, Twinings tea, Nike…so on have been cooperation art projects. He organized “Freedom men Art Organization”, an active young artist collective in 2006. Furthermore, in 2012, he created his own clothing brand “Organs without body” taking his creativity to a new field. In the same year, he has made his way towards art and creativity and founded an alternative art space “Freedom Men Art Apartments” and build “Freedom Men Art & Design Co., Ltd.”.
安地羊(顏寧志)
1985年生於台中
國立台南藝術大學藝術創作理論研究所博士班
國立交通大學應用藝術研究所博士班肄業
實踐大學時尚與媒體設計研究所畢業
國立臺南大學美術系主修,戲劇系輔修畢業
跨領域創作藝術家,有著強烈的個人視覺風格,除了主要在視覺創作外,也積極的延伸以各種不同類型的媒材來進行創作,從平面繪畫、服裝設計到空間場域的創作。目前已舉辦過數次個展,參與過國內外各種不同的展覽、藝術博覽會、以及藝術駐留計畫。他的創作跟作品跨界在藝術和設計之間,他還與一些不同的空間單位有各種合作的藝術項目。
2009年成立「自由人工作室」,嘗試和不同領域的創作者文化創意、媒體應用、展演策劃、跨領域整合創作發展。 2012年成立了自己的「Organs without body」服裝品牌,將創作延伸至另一個領域,並試著將藝術與商業做結合。同年也於台灣成立展演替代空間「自由人藝術公寓」、「自由人藝術設計股份有限公司」。
主要發展的「沒有身體的器官」系列,作品創作特色在於透過色彩、造型及線條,使之生命樣態化,解放出作品的自主性。希望由感性支配畫面,讓色彩支配整個平衡效果,使點線面回歸到一個純粹性的有機世界,以濃郁飽滿的色彩表現出類有機物,讓組織/器官自行蔓延在畫面之中,並且隨其自然擴張至其他作品。這些組織的衍生流動,最後必定導向某種意義。但這意義卻不是一個固定的實體,會隨著創作的時間累積,有機、有生命、有形態地持續生長;從細胞到組織,從組織到器官,再從器官到系統,最後變成一個完整的軀體。而它們看作是正在不斷持續成生的生命體,藉由在這樣的一種概念中,創作一種充滿生命力的藝術型態。