High Life

HIGH LIFE #11 Aug 2017 39 苏 文乐是一位土生土长的澳门艺术家，亦是土生葡人，讲 三种语言，略带几分异国色彩。身材高大的他，以腼腆 的笑容迎接我们，随后带我们参观他在婆仔屋文创空间举办的 个人作品展《夜间》。 其作品最夺人眼球之处，在于他运用水彩对光线与黑暗的 优雅演绎。主色调为黑、灰、赭和红，画面让我们仿若回到童 年。当我做此评论时，苏文乐露出了笑容。 他解释说，“人们总是问我，为什么我的画作总是以旧澳 门为焦点。并非我不喜欢新事物，但我是凭记忆来作画，而在 我的记忆里，我总是会重温儿时去过的一些地方。” F ilipe Miguel Das Dores is an artist born and bred in Macau. He also happens to be Macanese, speaking three languages fluently which lends him that exotic touch. Tall and shy, Filipe welcomes us with a timid smile before showing us around his solo exhibition at the Old Ladies House (Albergue) titled Nocturne . The first feature of Filipe’s work to catch the eye is his elegantplayof lightanddarkusingwatercolors.Thedominant hues are black, grey, ochre and red and the depictions take us back to our childhood. Filipe smiles when I mention this. “People always ask why my paintings focus on the old side of Macau,” he explains. “It is not that I don’t like the new, but I paint from memory and in my memory I always revisit places from my childhood.”