“如果不考虑与其它事物的任何联系,绘画本身会是什么样的?”加拿大后现代女艺术家若柯朋(Dorothea Rockburne)曾于1973年在纽约百科特画廊(Bykert Gallery)举办过一场个展,目的就在于回答上述问题,而那场展览则被誉为现代绘画实践过程中的一块试金石。艺术家选用墙体的表面做底板,运用复写纸创作了一系列作品——她运用仪器画出直线,使线条组成精致的映射网络,然后将复写纸折叠以留 “What would the painting itself be like without regard to anything else?” Dorothea Rockburne, a Canadian postmodernist artist, who had been in 1973 at the Bykert Gallery in New York City The purpose of the solo exhibition is to answer the above questions, and the exhibition is regarded as a litmus test in the practice of modern painting. The artist chose to use the surface of the wall as the base and created a series of works using carbon paper - she used instruments to draw straight lines to make the lines compose an elaborate mapping network and then fold the copy paper to leave