来源：Vanguard画廊
赤道
艺术家：廖斐
开幕时间：2016年1月16日（周六）16:00—18:00
展期：2016年1月16日—2016年3月2日
地点：上海莫干山路50号4号楼A座204室，Vanguard画廊
电话：+86 21 62993523
www.vanguardgallery.com
赤道的定义是地球表面的点随地球自转产生的轨迹中周长最长的圆周线。如果将地球看作一个绝对的球体，赤道将地球分为南北两半球，这样的划分无疑是基于二元的基础上的。而赤道本身正是二元论无法清晰划分的中间地带，是事物的临界状态，含混而清晰。
赤道这一概念正是我们在客服主观相对建立客观秩序的“科学态度”指引下，对经验观察、测量、抽象、计算建构出的“科学世界”的一部分，但“科学世界”仍然直接指向已有的“生活世界”这一无法被取消的最终视域中的客体，就像我们循着赤道这一抽象概念在地表为其建造了赤道纪念碑一样。廖斐在展览中同样建造了两座“赤道纪念碑”，材料来自艺术家工作室所在城乡结合部随处可见的初级制造业材料甚至废弃物。毫无疑问作品所在位置与真正的赤道相去甚远，廖斐只是提取了纪念碑的垂直形式和人为创造却难以在现实世界中精确对应的一条线。两座纪念碑真正显现的是企图以硬的概念去捕捉流变的对象所带来的张力。同样的张力也出现在“延绵的赤道”这件作品中。赤道作为地球表面的存在物必然依附于起伏不规则的地形，艺术家用激光水平仪和起伏的地图模拟了概念与实体的耦合。
“重力雕塑2”是一件艺术家个人风格明显的作品。十几卷黑色的胶带水平贴在墙面高处，这又是廖斐利用身边之物创造出的科学实验般的情境。随着时间推移，胶带因重力先后下落，而其中一卷会因下方的一块木板改变下落的轨迹与速度。物质、能量、时间、空间的各自性质及相互关系在此暴露无遗。但观察不因在此止步，艺术家希望观者看到的是经典力学此时如何在你脑中展现，眼前所见是如何被我们的认知赋予意义。
在廖斐上一次个展中，艺术家密集展现了关于我们如何认识世界的思考，此次展览艺术家希望呈现更真实的工作室状态，贯穿展厅的“水流”正像“生活世界”这一终极背景在展览中的投射。作品同样源自艺术家生活所见，城乡结合部的快速、实用、半成品化与不确定性在艺术家看来蕴含巨大的创造力。木条加水管组成的供水系统经济快捷，这一生活道具同时进行着压力与材质互相作用的实验，“生活世界”与“科学世界”的张力在此显得柔和。
The Equator
Artist: Liao Fei
Opening：January 16, 16:00 - 18:00
Duration: January 16, 2016 - March 2, 2016
Venue: Vanguard Gallery, R204, Bldg.4A, 50 Moganshan Road,Shanghai 200060
Tel: +86 21 62993523
www.vanguardgallery.com
The equator is an imaginary line around the earth forming thegreat circle. If the earth is regarded as a perfect sphere, the equator dividesthe earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. This cognitionis undoubtedly based on the dualism. The equator itself is the dualism middleground, a critical state possessing both the vagueness and the clarity.
The concept of the equator is a part of science coming from ourobservation, measurement, abstraction, calculation on experiences, under the guidance of scientific attitude which intends to overcome subjectivity and relativity, establish an objective order. But science always refers to objects in life-world, the indefeasible ultimate horizon. Just like people built the equator monument on the ground following the abstract concept of equator. Liao Fei also created two equator monuments in this exhibition with the primary manufacturing materials and even wastes which can be seen everywhere in rural-urban fringe and Liao Fei’s studio located there. Obviously these two works’ locations are far away from the equator, Liao Fei just extracted the vertical form and an artificial line can’t be accurately corresponded in real world from the equator monuments. What the two works represent is the tension arising when we attempt to catch flowing and changing objects with rigid concept. The tension also can be seen in the work stretching equator. As the existence on the earth’s surface, the equator will necessarily attach to the irregular undulating terrain. This coupling between concept and object was simulated with laser level and ridgy map.
Gravity Sculpture 2 is a distinct work with clear personal style of Liao Fei. A dozen of black tapes were attached to the wall. It’s another situation created with daily supplies from Liao Fei, which is similar to scientific experiments. With the lapse of time, tapes will successively fall, but one of them will have a different falling track and speed due to a board put against the wall. The property of material, energy, time and space was thoroughly exposed in this work. But the observation should not stop here, how the classical mechanics acts in your mind and the way we give meaning to objects is really what the artist wants to show.
In Liao Fei’s previous solo exhibition, he vigorously showed his thinking on how we understand the world. For this exhibition the artist wants to reveal his real studio working state. Flow, the work running through the gallery space, is the very symbol of life-world, the ultimate background reflected in this exhibition. This work also comes from the artist’s daily life, speediness, practicability, low completion and uncertainty in rural-urban fringe contains great creativity in his eyes. This water supply system composed of plastic pipeand boards is economic and convenient. The experiment about pressure and material takes place in this living props. That smooths science and the life-world.
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上海莫干山路50号4号楼A座204室
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