小动作：廖文峰个展
OV画廊新闻稿
2012年6月9日——2012年7月25日
开幕式：2012年6月9日，5pm-8pm
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借着符号学、暂存性、艺术史和当代中国的现实, 廖文峰做出了一系列的行动, 迫使我们从一个全新的视角审视我们的世界。在近期这些摄影和录像作品中,艺术家将自己置入其中, 像一个恶作剧的黑客进入纷繁的状况中, 去干扰、破坏或改变我们对现实的看法。
比如在“苹果的背面”中, 我们看到一组插入镜子碎片的苹果的照片, 从多种不同的角度反射了苹果的部分。在另一个作品“灰尘转移”中, 一张照片描绘了一批生长在高速公路下布满着厚厚灰尘的的日本楤木，只有一片深绿色叶子闪闪发亮的。这个图像与另一张被灰尘覆盖的手并置—这个清洗叶子的动作引发了人们对第一个地方为什么叶子会变成灰色的注意。
这种幽默感也在他的作品“石头”中出现,一堆小岩石摇摇欲坠地叠在铁路轨道带上。在“灰尘螺旋体”中，他表达了对罗伯特·史密森的“螺旋形防波堤”的一种敬意,一道混合了尘埃和碎片的螺旋形被留在房间内一处被人遗忘的角落里。在传统的大地艺术中，作品会被风和雨这样的元素降解，而文峰将人(如火车司机)摆放在“破坏者”的位置上，对于人们在他的环境中制造混乱的能力做出了评论。
录像作品“花树村”,通过对于他的家乡进行的“新农村建设运动”的纪录，同样呈现了一种混乱。 一些村民的厨房依规划被拆毁，他跟着做了一些“改进”，他在河的中央种植了两排树，并邀请了一些村民在这片区域中闲逛，听音乐，下象棋，从而在这个急流的中央重建了一个乡村公园。这里，这个荒诞的干预呈现了一个强有力的隐喻，即变化对于乡村生活和跌宕不安的传统社区的影响。
小动作：廖文峰个展
2012年6月9日——2012年7月25日
开幕式：2012年6月9日，周六，17:00-20:00
地址：Ov画廊，上海市莫干山路50号4A楼207室，近澳门路
电话：+186 1680 7704
网站：www.ovgallery.com
Minute Gestures: Liao Wenfeng Solo Show
OV Gallery Press Release
June 9, 2012-July 25, 2012
Opening: June 9, 2012, 5pm-8pm
Playing with semiotics, temporality, art history and the realities of contemporary China, Liao Wenfeng performs a series of interventions which force us to examine our world from a whole new perspective. In this recent body of photography and video works, the artist inserts himself, like a mischievous hacker into various situations, to “jam,” subvert or alter our perception of reality.
For instance in “The Backside of the Apple,” we see a photograph of a group of apples with shards of mirror thrust into them which reflect parts of the apple from various different angles. In another work “Dust Transfer,” a photograph depicts a crop of Japanese Aralia bushes growing under the freeway completely caked with dust save for one dark green shiny leaf. This image is juxtaposed with another photograph of a dust-covered hand – the action of cleaning the leaf drawing attention to how these leaves became grey in the first place.
This wry sense of humor also comes out in his work “Stone,” a small pile of rocks stacked precariously on a railroad tie and in “Dusty Spiral” an homage to Robert Smithson “Spiral Jetty” – a circular trail of dust and debris left in a neglected corner of a room. While in traditional land art the works were degraded by the elements of wind and rain, Liao places man (either as train engineer or a cleaner wielding a broom) in the position of the “destroyer” making a comment on mankind’s ability to create chaos in his environment.
The video work, “Flower Tree Village,” also examines idea of chaos with a documentary about a “village beautification” project in Liao’s hometown, whereby some villager’s kitchens are demolished in accordance with town planning regulations. Liao then makes some “improvements” of his own planting a row of trees right across the breadth of the river where he directs some villagers to lounge about, listen to music and play chess, thus re-creating a town park in the middle of the fast-rushing current. Here this absurd intervention presents a powerful metaphor for the impact of change on rural life and the precariousness traditional communities.
Minute Gestures: Liao Wenfeng Solo Show
June 9, 2012-July 25, 2012
Opening: Saturday, June 9, 2012, 5pm-8pm
OV Gallery: Room 207, Bldg 4A,
No. 50 Moganshan Lu, by Aomen Lu
+186 1680 7704
www.ovgallery.com
