2007年  布面油画  123x120cm
鸣谢：艺术家本人和悉尼的Roslyn Oxley9 画廊

Rohan Wealleans  Frog Dreaming  2007  Paint on canvas  123×120cm
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Rohan Wealleans
1977年，出生于新西兰印文卡利； 现生活、工作在奥克兰
1977，Invercargill，New Zealand；lives and works in Auckland

艺术家Rohan Wealleans的自述：
    《行星地球地质系》是用绘画创作的一本科幻小说，是介于绘画世界和雕塑世界的一个混合体。其形成的奇怪的颜色和形式像科技展览上的标本一样被摆出来供检验。行星的表面与外星人一同被全面的呈现出来。

Artist statement by Rohan Wealleans
Planet Earth Geology Department is a science fiction created in paint, a hybrid that hovers between the world of painting and the world of sculpture. Strange excavations of colour and form are laid out for examination like specimens in a scientific display. Planetary surfaces are presented in their entirety along with an alien inhabitant.

策展人Rachel Kent的评述：
      奥克兰艺术家罗汉(Rohan Wealleans)通过对颜料及日常材料中聚苯乙烯、绳索、垂钓浮筒和陶瓷珠子的运用建造了一个奇特且错综复杂的装置。摇晃不定的形态，网状的装饰品和带有厚厚外壳的表面既具美感又具压迫感。这些主题又让人联想到部落或萨满教。材料的累积是罗汉不同艺术作品的核心，其中以用油漆绘制数遍后，再用刀削减为主要特点，其显露出来的带有颜色的条纹如同一棵古树的年轮。罗汉通过对实物的运用，就像魔法师一般把物质和意义无拘束的堆积起来。     

Curatorial statement by Rachel Kent:
Auckland artist Rohan Wealleans constructs strange and intricate assemblages out of paint and everyday materials including polystyrene, rope, fishing buoys and ceramic beads. Their pendulous forms, web-like ornamentation and heavily encrusted surfaces are both beautiful and oppressive; and their titles often suggest a tribal or shamanistic logic. Accumulation is central to Wealleans’ artworks, which feature dozens of coats of house-paint that the artist then cuts back with a Stanley knife, revealing striations of colour like the growth-rings of an ancient tree. A painter who works with objects, Wealleans layers materials and meanings with the ease of a conjurer.
 

翻译：王均峰