我们很荣幸地宣布艺术家高露迪在空白空间北京的第二回个展将于8月29日开幕。
在今天，作为图像传播的最主要渠道之一，社交媒体中包括虚拟亲密性在内的众多特质在很大程度上影响着图像的根本创造过程。日常而规律的自我分享和暴露仪式也为这图像陡增了额外的生理性意义：图像从审美领域弥漫至生理领域之中。欲望与需求合而为一。
高露迪的绘画与这种当代状况相关。他以随手可得的图像作为出发点，戏谑地分析并挪用日常审美。这种绘画实践在许多不同的层面与某种特殊的处理“剩余物”为主要功能的生理活动相比较：反复、日常、频繁而规律，拒绝被一般的历史纪录所捕捉，在很大程度上意味着对于被排出至外部的“剩余物”的关注或痴迷。
与日常图像中永恒而占有统治地位的欢愉主题不同的是，高露迪鲜艳而悦目的绘画以一种类似禁欲的严格自我约束为代价，面向自身展现。在挪用日常图像时为其强制加深历时性——独特于绘画历史的历时性——也决绝地背叛了这种审美。在这个意义上，高露迪的作品不仅运作于绘画与摄影在现当代的复杂历史之中，也因其生理性笼罩着一种荧光色的光晕。
高露迪1990年出生于河南郑州，2013年于首都师范大学美术学院油画系获得学士学位，现生活和工作在北京。
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming opening of Gao Ludi’s second solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING on August 29th.
Social media today has become the most relevant channel through which the visual is produced and circulated.Intimacy is an essential attribute of the visual in its making, whether simulated or not. It not only resides within the confines of ritualistic sharing and exposing, but also renders itself physically and biologically – the visual departs from the realm of the aesthetics and permeates into the realm of the biological. Desires become necessities.
In relation to these circumstances, Gao Ludi takes found images as his point of departure, appropriating the aesthetics in a playful, yet analytic fashion. The act of painting resembles to the artist the act of excretion in various aspects – repetitive, daily, mundane, ritualistic, rejecting being captured and recorded by historicist narratives, and always involving a certain element of excess.
As expressive as the works are, Gao’s paintings do not claim to be loyal to the virtual reality. Unlike the visuals found in the context of the mundane, where it is defined by an absolute, dominant theme of jouissance, Gao’s canvas of bright and colourful surface is rooted in an artistic practice that is ascetic in nature. The temporality that is unique to the act of painting also betrays the aesthetics that tends to produce a homogenised visual culture. In this sense, the works recall a profound history of the relation between painting and photography, paying homage to the problematics of the aura.
Gao Ludi was born in 1990 in Henan, China. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China with a bachelor degree in Fine Arts in 2013. Gao Ludi now lives and works in Beijing.
