Epa（仓库雕刻面板） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Epa（仓库雕刻面板）
品名（英）	Epa (carved panel for a storehouse)
入馆年号	2022年，2022.347
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者	Māori artist
创作年份	公元 1700 - 公元 1800
创作地区	奥泰罗亚（新西兰）（Aotearoa (New Zealand)）
分类	木材（Wood）
尺寸	高 59 × 宽 13 1/2 × 深 4 英寸 (149.9 × 34.3 × 10.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	以前被整合到一个主要的pātaka（仓库）中，这个直立的毛利雕刻面板用于仓库，通过在性结合期间男性和女性形式的交织来预示社区的活力，这在该类型中很常见。这种罕见的毛利雕刻具有最高级的品质，其图像与生育、丰度和生育密切相关。大胆而创新，雕塑家巧妙地雕刻了这件作品，创造了蜿蜒流畅运动的视觉节奏。四肢是活的，动态的和警觉的。男性的手伸上去，从嘴下面抓住下唇，女手伸到她的腿下抓住她的大腿。雕刻师在描绘这对夫妇的活力方面表现出非凡的精湛技艺：头部向一侧倾斜，鼻孔张开，人物的眼睛以主动挑衅的姿态盯着观众，舌头伸出（pūkana）——这是阻止任何人接近仓库的直接挑战。雕刻大师对作品的平面尺寸进行了创新：四肢有节奏地流动，而肩膀、臀部和大腿的雕塑体积则表明了灵活和敏捷。这对祖先形象的"非凡"方面通过他们富有表现力和柔软的身体、纤细的手指和鸟状的蹼脚来强调，这证实了他们从最早的鸟类般的原始祖先的直接后裔。他们独特的切口面部和身体纹身标记（tā moko）表明他们的高地位和主要血统。在垂直平面上升起，负责创作雕刻面板的毛利雕刻大师展示了他的独创性，他巧妙地用壮观的动态镂空刺穿整个面板，创造了一个突出明暗相互作用的格子面板，并在视觉上参考了神圣之夜（te po）与创造的第一缕曙光（te ao marama）的刺穿），当宇宙的创造力处于最活跃的时候。这种强大的创造力也引用在庆祝宇宙结合的男性和女性人物的配对中。木材丰富的黑色铜绿是将雕刻浸泡在帕鲁（一种浸泡在铁中的特级黑泥）的结果，这有助于其保存。贝壳镶嵌物落入每个人物的眼睛中，与每件雕塑作品的深色背景形成鲜明对比，挑战那些敢于接近酋长神圣领域和 18 世纪毛利部落社区焦点的主要仪式空间的人。
介绍（英）	Formerly integrated into a chiefly pātaka (storehouse), this upright Māori carved panel for a storehouse foregrounds the vitality of the community through the intertwining of male and female form during sexual union, which is common for the genre. This rare Māori carving is of superlative quality and features iconography that relates closely to procreation, abundance, and fertility. Bold and innovative, the sculptor has masterfully carved this piece to create a visual rhythm of sinuous, fluid movement. The limbs are alive, dynamic and alert. The hands of the male figure reach up and under the mouth to grip onto the bottom lip and the female hand reaches up under her leg to grip onto her thigh. The carver exhibits extraordinary virtuosity in portraying the dynamism of the pair: heads tilt to one side, nostrils flare, the figure’s eyes fix on the viewer in an actively defiant gesture with tongue protruding (pūkana)—a direct challenge to deter anyone from approaching the storehouse. The master carver plays innovatively with the planar dimension of the piece: limbs flow rhythmically while sculptural volume in the shoulders, buttocks, and thighs indicate nimbleness and agility. The ‘extra’-ordinary aspect of this pair of ancestral figures is emphasized by their expressive and supple bodies, the slender tapering of their fingers and bird-like webbed feet, which affirm their direct descent from the earliest bird-like primordial ancestors. Their distinctive incised facial and bodily tattoo markings (tā moko) indicate their high status and chiefly lineage. Rising up in the vertical plane, the Māori master carver responsible for the creation of the carved panel demonstrates his ingenuity by skillfully piercing the entire panel with spectacularly dynamic openwork, creating a lattice panel that highlights the interaction of light and dark and is a visual reference to the piercing of the sacred night (te po) with the first light of creation (te ao marama) when the creative forces of the universe were at their most dynamic. This powerful creativity is also referenced in the pairing of male and female figures whose cosmological union was celebrated. The rich black patina of the wood is the result of steeping the carving in paru (a special-grade black mud steeped in iron) which has contributed to its preservation. Shell insets, dropped into the eyes of each figure, provided scintillating flash points in contrast to the dark background of each sculptural piece, challenging those who dared approach the chiefly ceremonial spaces which were the sacred domain of chiefs and the focal point of 18th-century Māori tribal communities.