| A Move Within
潜溢
Luo Xiaodong
罗晓冬
Curated by Cecilia Freschini
策展人：茜茜
开幕： 20th June 2009, Saturday 5 p.m.
展览： 20th June 2009 – 15 August
开放时间： 10:00-18:00 Monday-Sunday
将近半个世纪之前，唐纳·贾德为绘画发了讣告。虽然贾德的断言从未成真，但坚持作画的艺术家们一直在试图穿越这个拥有千年历史的艺术形式的疆界。
“潜溢”的策展人——Cecilia Freschini 茜茜 写道：“时间流淌，其中显现的某几帧画面往往比我们的整个记忆还要清晰。面对罗晓冬的作品，我们很容易进入一个没有分秒的时空，其中，尘世无声，一个没有前文后义的恢宏空洞在此盘踞。……艺术是郑重的，艺术家需要对重大社会问题有所回应……（罗的画面）是我们时代的点滴，他审视这些点滴，也审视这个时代，要我们睁开眼睛，从心‘潜溢’。”
场景可以是一张长凳，吐纳时间流逝；可以是故宫，却似颓唐苍凉的废墟风景；或仅仅是新闻事件中撷取的一幅画面。用他独特的技艺——沾满颜料的刮刀在画布上留下不规则的三角形，以及黑白灰的着色，罗晓冬不仅仅抓住其中慑人的“无声”和逼人的“空洞”，也抚摩到了其中的普遍情愫，同时质疑我们体认外界事物的方式。
在罗晓冬最近的作品中，他还尝试引入画面的载体作为他视觉语法的重要一部分：通过画布的分割，或者画幅不同的比例和角度，谋取新的平衡。罗晓冬的意象往往剥离于它们的语境，艺术家以此建立与世界的联系，却又依靠设色的简化和细节的模糊，避免寓言式的或现实主义的暗示。
罗晓冬出生于大西北，和许多艺术家一样，有着学院派的背景。从西安美术学院毕业后，他选择与依然鼎盛的社会主义现实主义分道扬镳。从最初的抽象表现主义的尝试到今天他日益成熟的个人风格，罗晓冬将他在画面中的探索称作“冒险”，他乐此不疲。此展是他在中国的第二个个展。他之前的个人展览包括2007年东京的“我的世界”和去年在上海和南京的“空城计”。
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A Move Within
潜溢
Luo Xiaodong
罗晓冬
Curated by Cecilia Freschini
Our whole life is series of moments and sensations, where past, present and future lose their meanings and single images stand out, as crystallized thoughts, more clear than memories. Facing Luo Xiaodong’s work, we easily enter a timeless dimension, in which dwell a mortal silence and an enormous emptiness. Nevertheless, is not disorientation that we feel, but the familiarity of a common experience. According to the artist, painting should generate a new understanding. We watch but as a matter of fact, we see nothing, and all turns back to zero. “The way we view the world determines the way we lead our life and make a living. We do need to think about it.” As articulated by these words, Luo Xiaodong, is highly conscious of what it means to do art. Art is a serious and deep matter, and the artists should respond to major social problems. The cities in the process of modernization and the natural environment are two of his main concerns. The artist has softened the dramatic force of his early subjects, but his message is even stronger. “Postcard”, “Mountain”, “Rope”, “Souvenir” are pieces of our time, that he aims to review, suggesting us to pay much attention and make a move within.
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Opening: 20th June 2009, Saturday 5 p.m
Exhibition: 20th June 2009 – 15 August
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00 Monday-Sunday |
