A K Dolven个展——寻找平衡点
策展人：邵大卫（David Thorp）
展览时间：2010.6.6 - 2010.7.11
开幕式：2010.6.5 下午15:00
展览地点：站台中国B空间
主办方：站台中国当代艺术机构
项目支持：OCA挪威当代艺术办公室&创新挪威-Nordland &挪威王国驻华大使馆
挪威艺术家A K Dolven的中国首个个展将于2010年6月5日下午3时在站台中国的B空间展出。展览是站台中国关于动态影像在当代艺术中所扮演的角色、及所处的位置系列对话中的一个组成部分。尽管A K Dolven的艺术实践包括电影、录像、摄影、绘画以及定点装置作品等，但在中国的第一次个人展览“寻找平衡点”中所涉及的主要是动态影像。
自中国当代艺术出现至今，尤其是近些年来，它所涵盖的各个领域均呈现出百花齐放的态势。据此，我们可以看出，当代艺术不再必须是以西方为中心的艺术，而是，作为全球整体的每一部分，由当下各种艺术形式组成的当代艺术家的作品展几乎横贯了整个东西方。A K Dolven在此次展览中所展示的四个作品跨越了八年时间，尽管这四个作品以单独的形式展出，但也从另一个角度反映了A K Dolven在和电影与录像相关的方面所作的基本实践。她的创作将人体作为承载了人类情感和心绪的器皿，并以此作为一种物质形式和物质世界的替代品；更多的，则是从以人为本的立场考虑个体存在的本质条件，以及这些条件潜在的哲学立场在美学标准中所具有的反映和意识。无论是直接的还是间接的，作品中的每一部分都以他物为借鉴尤其是将风景作为参考的载体。
这些作品都以A K Dolven对环境对事物的敏锐性为根基，最终成形于欧洲北部地区，以及围绕着罗浮敦群岛的景致中。冬季的山脉从上往下都被厚厚的积雪所覆盖，而夏季，太阳则悬挂在那里，永不落下。这种极端的气候被Dolven当做背景在使用，是一个和城市环境对照而言更为纯净和简单的现实存在，从而为她的映像创建了一个丰富多彩的舞台。它的粗糙和简单的透视成为Dolven的创意温床，当她抛开人类的经验之谈，回归到基础和本质，就更加拓宽了长久以来所形成的固有的视觉艺术范畴。
策展人：邵大卫（David Thorp）
A K Dolven’s Solo Show looking for balance
Curate by: David Thorp
Exhibition Venue: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute
Exhibition Dates: June 6th – July 11th 2010
Exhibition Opening: June 5th 2010 15:00pm
Project supported by: OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Innovation Norway, Nordland; Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing
Norwegian artist A K Dolven's first solo show in China will be exhibited in the Space B of Platform China, opening at 15:00 p.m. on June 5, 2010. This exhibition is part of a continuing dialogue established at Platform China concerning the role of the moving image in contemporary art. Although A K Dolven’s practice includes film, video, photography, painting as well as site specific works, the show looking for balance presented for the first time in China concerns itself specifically with works made for moving images.
As the emergence of contemporary art from China has shown vividly in recent years, contemporary art is no longer necessarily West-centric. The work of contemporary artists is exhibited throughout the world as part of a homogenised global totality that comprises the art of today. In this exhibition Dolven is showing four works executed over a period of eight years that represent separate but interrelated and fundamental aspects of her practice in film and video - a concern with the body as the vessel within which human sensibility and emotions are contained and alternatively as substance in a world of form and matter; the existential condition of the individual considered from an essentially humanist position, and the potential these philosophical positions have to be realised within an aesthetic canon. Each either directly or implicitly makes reference to place and more particularly the landscape.
These works are rooted in Dolven’s sensibility formed in the northern reaches of Europe, in the landscape that surrounds the Lofoten Islands. Here in the winter the mountains that run down to the sea are covered in deep snow, in the summer the sun never sets. This extreme environment is used as a backdrop by Dolven, a reality that contrasts favourably in its purity and simplicity to an urban setting, creating a generous stage for her reflections. Its harsh and simple scenography has become a place where Dolven´s ideas can gestate as she reduces the human experience to fundamental conditions and broadens enduring conventions of visual art.
Curator: DAVID THORP