斑点|MARK

2011.7.23 -2011.8.21

艺术家 | Artists：

林瑶瑶|Lin Yaoyao 陆叶|Lu Ye 李龙|Li Long 孟思特|Meng Site 聂英|Nie Ying 钱丽丽|Qian Lili 石震宇|Shi Zhenyu 谢冰鑫|Xie Bingxin


地点 | Venue：798艺术区中一街 空间站Space Station




新闻稿

 
空间站将于2011年7月23日到2011年8月21日举办小型绘画和装置作品展—— “斑点”，这是8位刚刚走出校园的年轻艺术家的联展。

我们走访了一些毕业作品展，在种种宏大叙事大规模大主题的作品中，发现了这些有意思的小个案。同其他的年轻艺术家一样，他们依然走在所有艺术家都必须经历的重要时期，在发现自身艺术语言和发展技术面貌时，对他们眼前混沌而多元的艺术价值进行取舍，在技术上进入实质意义上的探索。一个集多种艺术胚胎于一体的观念成长期和艺术语言、技术控制的分裂提纯期。这些使得他们现阶段作品的探索方向显现出不同，却给观众提出了一个关于文学性在视觉艺术表现力方面的问题：思想表达的深度和观念表达的强度，是否会受制于对具象形象的表现？形象思维、文学幻想、多义、暧昧、隐喻——文学性的形象塑造是否会影响他们对思想和观念的提炼陈述？抽象绘画和具象绘画是否会被天然地分配到不同的视觉课题？能用语言文本表达的问题是否还需要通过形象传递？

具象描述、同义类比、叙事、形象刻画、心理描摹、虚无主体的本体论，语言结构主义、文化环境下文本的典型性表达等等这些文学性的特征在这些作品中均有不同方式的体现，他们如同伍尔夫眼前的那些“斑点”，普通生活的平常瞬间在某一天浮现于墙上，引发意识的自由流动，产生一系列幻想。它们开始流转、下沉、变化、掠过、消失——微小普通在我们感到即将接近真理时陷入了大动荡。只有自由真的存在时，那些飘零在我们面前的，脑海中携带着某种非法自由感的瞬间才值得被珍视、留驻。

任何对于艺术价值的绝对定义和终极标准的提纯，最终都将走向无题，除非具体到某一幅作品，我们才能给出一个相对清楚的答案。这如同语言结构与修辞结构融合之后产生的效应，无法用其他结论性文本代替；如同任何艺术形式的发展都是建立在对本身的反思（文学对文学的自反，艺术也通常自我反驳）。总有一些文本表述、形象思维方面的现象，躲过了对元语言的思考或定义，虽然这种躲避并不是主体刻意为之，事实上，元语言也不一定先天的就比其他方式更善于揭示真理。所以这些年轻的艺术家选择了抓住一种属于自身的思维方式，结合某种特定的表达形式，在不同角度，不同文化语境下去产生作品。如果说这样做的后果是对绘画元语言的放弃、混淆或者变异，也只是一种暂时的价值飘移，对他们自身来说，一条清晰坚定令人神往的视觉国度，也许会在某一天浮现眼前。 
 

文：郭芳


Space Station will be honored to hold the small-sized painting and installation exhibition “MARK” between July 23 and August 21, 2011. It is a group exhibition of eight young artists who just graduated from college.

After visiting some graduated exhibitions, we found these interesting small cases among those large-scale narrative works. As other young artists, they are still in the very important period which all artists have to go through. While discovering their own artistic languages and technological development, they must make their choices among the chaotic and diversity artistic value and explore the essential meaning in technology. This is a conceptive growth of a set of multiple artistic embryos, and also a period of dividing and purifying their artistic languages and technical control. All these things make the explore direction of their present works different from others. However, it leaves the audience a question about how literariness works in visual arts expression. Whether the expression of ideas and concepts will be subjected to the concrete images? Imagery thinking, literature vision,，polysemy, ambiguity, metaphor — will these literary image-buildings affect their precise expression of the ideas and values? Whether abstract paintings and figurative paintings will be naturally assigned to different visual issues? Is it necessary to express the issues which could be solved by a literature way?

The characteristics of literature are showed in different ways in these works: concrete descriptions, synonyms analogy, narrative, image characterization, psychological portray, non-subject ontology, language structure doctrine and typical expression in a cultural context etc. They are like the “mark” in front of Virginia Woolf. Small moments in ordinary life suddenly appeared on the wall one day. Then caused the stream of consciousness and resulted in a series of fantasy. Those marks began to flow, sink, change, disappear — tiny and common things had fallen into the turmoil before we approached the truth. Those moments with an illegal sense which are wandering in front of us or staying on our mind could only be cherished and remained when, the freedom exists.

All the depuration of absolute definition and final criterion of artistic value will head for no title. We can never figure out a relatively clear answer unless it refers to a certain art work. It is just like the un-substitutable effect caused by the mix of language structure and rhetorical structure, as all the development of any artistic form are based on their self-reflection. Art has self-refuting as literature does. There are always phenomena about textual expression and imaginal thinking goes beyond the scope of metalinguistic thinking and definition, even though they don’t actually tend to. In fact, meta language is not always the best way to reveal the truth. Thus, these young artists chose to seize their own thinking pattern, which means to create art work according to the particular expression forms, point of views and cultural context. If the consequence is the abandon, confusion, or variation of meta language of painting, it is just the temporary artistic deviation. They might get to a clear, firm and compelling visual world one day.

Guo Fang