Rendering one minute of a video named “Francis Bacon: Fragments Of A Portrait”, a TV documentary interview of Bacon by David Sylvester, through my ‘Spirit Exposure’ method.
This documentary was broadcasted on BBC1, 18 September 1966.
While Bacon talked about the recurring themes in his work: the twisted body, injury and his life in the documentary, I render his talk by Spirit Exposure method. Bacon’s young artistic soul seems to reveal in this image? This experiment tend to juxtapose the artist’s description of body, motion and consciousless painting with the gradually rendered skull-like image. While the artist is gone, what is flesh? What is spirit?
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以Spirit Exposure的手法，對名為「弗朗西斯·培根碎片的肖像：大衛西爾維斯特對培根的專訪」影片進行運算，這個專訪於1966年9月18日於BBC播出。
當培根在訪談中說明他作品中反覆出現的，撕裂的肉體肖像、他的個人生活以及影響時，以靈曝光的手法，將培根侃侃而談的藝術靈魂描寫下來。這個實驗試圖將當時年輕的藝術家關於肉體、動作、無意識繪畫的口述，與這個壓縮時間後產生的近似骷髏的影像並置，當藝術家的姿態與聲音不在了，如此試問何為肉？何為靈？