Past
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It Is I too — Photographic: Self-Portraits By 21 Chinese Artists
13 Dec 2008 - 25 Jan 2009 The aim of this project is not that of assembling a series of works of indubitable aesthetic and artistic value, but rather that of stimulating the artists to reflect upon themselves and upon the image they consider to best represent them, translated into the language of photography. The artists summoned... Read more -
Radiance: Liu Yujie Paintings
25 Oct - 30 Nov 2008 The paintings of Liu Yujie diffuse a somewhat gloomy and spectral ambiance. R adiance is generated by the multi-coloured and freely used brushstroke and by the stage-set painting surface. Let there be light; and there was light, thus shedding a different light on the creativity and expressivity of this young... Read more -
Li Lang: Frontiers of Photography
23 Aug - 6 Oct 2008 In the past Li Lang has often been labelled one of China’s most important documentary photographers, a position confirmed by the attribution of the Motherjones Medal of Excellence, an internationally acclaimed award granted by The Motherjones International Fund for Documentary Photography in San Franscisco. Especially his series about the Yi... Read more -
Shen Xiaotong: Time · Scene 2008
5 Jun - 5 Aug 2008 沈小彤很早就表现出对 “时间”的敏感性。在1988年的时候,沈小彤就已经在他的《茶馆》、《静物》这类作品里敏感到时间的问题。在《静物》里,处于构图中央位置的杯状物体显示出极端的不稳定,因为它被一种看不见的力量推起,类似于漂浮在空中。所以我们很容易从心理上去接近艺术家的状况,关于物体的线型运动的时间观念事实上已经被忽略了,沈小彤敏感到的是心理的时间故事。客观环境的参照性变得不重要,他希望将所感受到的时间问题凝固在一个不现实的空间中,借用康德的概念就是,将感觉经验先验地凝固或者综合在目的性上。1989年2月,沈小彤参加“中国现代艺术展”的三联画《椅子》是这种感觉现实的更为清楚的表现,艺术家告诉我们,物体在不同的时间里,它所体现出来的形态是不一样的,并且与现实的一般经验无关。栗宪庭说他曾把《茶馆》“归入玩世写实主义”,可是他注意到艺术家在“画面的人物处理,不像北京的方力钧和刘炜等人作品中的那种嬉皮笑脸和泼皮味道,而是神情恍惚、茫然和有点做梦的感觉”。在面对现实问题方面,标准的玩世写实主义摆开了对现实的明确态度,以“不抵抗”的自我嘲笑的方式,给予了经验主义式的评价。可是,沈小彤不愿意“泼皮”的立场,他的态度是,即便我们不清楚那些琐碎的经验的来龙去脉,也应该保持一种“不确定”的警惕性。 保持道德感的人的基本生活态度是:道德的纪律是不会因为经验世界的变化而发生改变的,因此,轻易地表达对经验的看法是危险的,除非我们对自己的行为进行过事前的严肃判断。 Read more -
Multiple Truths: He Duoling, He Gong & Shi Jindian
2 Feb - 2 Mar 2008 The exhibition Multiple Truths: He Duoling, He Gong and Shi Jindian, directed by A Thousand Plateaus Art Space IN 2008 seeks to reveal the ‘organic intellectual’ faces of these three artists. Read more