在兩個世界之間：奧烏卡·萊蕾個展
展期：2008年10月11日至11月16日
地點：伊比利亞當代藝術中心
地址：中國北京市朝陽區酒仙橋路4號798藝術區E06
策展人：胡安·卡洛斯·莫亞·扎弗拉
藝術家：奧烏卡·萊蕾
主辦：伊比利亞當代藝術中心，西班牙馬德里Tomás y Valiente藝術中心（CEART）
特別支援：西班牙國際文化藝術基金會，馬德里芬拉布拉達市政府文化部
出品人：高平
總監：夏季風
藝術總監：左靖
伊比利亞當代藝術中心推出的“兩個世界之間：奧烏卡·萊蕾個展”，是西班牙藝術家奧烏卡·萊蕾（Ouka Leele）在中國的第一次個人回顧展。
這是北京伊比利亞當代藝術中心與西班牙馬德里Tomás y Valiente藝術中心（CEART）繼“詩意現實：對江南的一種解讀——來自中國南方的當代藝術”展之後的第二次合作，後者曾於今年五月在馬德里芬拉布拉達舉辦，引起轟動。這兩次互動的展覽是兩家藝術中心簽署友好交流合作協議的産物，該合作協議旨在中國和西班牙雙向促進和推廣兩國藝術家的作品。
奧烏卡·萊蕾是西班牙著名攝影家，其藝術生涯可以追溯到七十年代末期，與同為女性的美國藝術家辛迪·舍曼（Cindy Sherman）一樣，她作為歐洲的藝術家躋身於當時那個時代的標誌性人物的行列。奧烏卡·萊蕾參與了上世紀八十年代著名的馬德里新潮派文化運動（La Movida），這一文化潮流在二十世紀八十年代隨著民主時代的到來、以馬德里為中心席捲了整個西班牙，並影響了整個歐洲大陸。生於1957年的奧烏卡·萊蕾，自幼年起便開始畫畫，一直受到大自然與普拉多博物館大師們風格的影響。1976年進入新興攝影學校“攝影中心”學習，在那裏，後來在八十年代西班牙藝術家所表達出的新觀念開始被預見、並被表達出來。奧烏卡·萊蕾的創作一直遊走于兩個世界之間：繪畫與攝影、靈魂與實體。還是藝術學生的時候，她就開始學習攝影，並從中發現了表達的新方式。對繪畫的需求以及對黑白現實的迷戀驅使她將繪畫與攝影相結合，並逐漸形成了個性化的藝術語言，籍此繼續繪畫同時運用攝影作為她對現實再創作的工具。
她的作品被其本人認為是“視覺詩歌、一種不以語言來表達的方式。是戲劇、想像、繪畫和攝影的混雜。”，從中發展了極為個人化的藝術語言，融合了繪畫與攝影兩種形式。而評論界將她的作品歸類于手繪攝影，並命名為水彩攝影，其創作過程分為四個步驟：拍攝照片、沖洗正片、上色及保存圖片。她獨特的個人化創作導致出現兩種面貌：肖像——她以有難度的簡化風格描繪現實的不同元素、不同主題；或以感性且私密的手法貼近、演繹自然與作為生命之母的女性世界。
由伊比利亞當代藝術中心和馬德里Tomás y Valiente藝術中心策劃的展覽“奧烏卡·萊蕾：在兩個世界之間”，是對該藝術家創作的一次綜合回顧，展示了她的67件作品，涵蓋了其1979年第一次個展“髮廊系列”至今的整個藝術生涯，其中包括了她在上世紀八十年代著名的馬德里新潮派文化運動（La Movida）期間創作的著名作品。
OUKA LEELE: Between Two Worlds
Dates: 11th October- 16th November
Venue: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
Add: E06, 798 Art Zone, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Curator: Juan Carlos Moya Zafra
Artist: OUKA LEELE
Presented by: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing│Centro de Arte Tomás y
Valiente (CEART), Fuenlabrada (Madrid)
Special Support: International Art&Culture Foundation(IAC)
Cultural Department of the Municipality of Fuenlabrada(Madrid)
Producer: Gao Ping
Director: Xia Jifeng
Art Director: Zuo Jing
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art will present Ouka Leele: Between Two Worlds, the first retrospective of the Spanish artist Ouka Leele in China.
This exhibition is a further collaboration between Iberia Center for Contemporary Art of Beijing and Tomás y Valiente Art Center of Fuenlabrada (Madrid), following the exhibition Poetic Realism: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan - Contemporary Art from South China held in Fuenlabrada (Madrid), May 2008, which has created a great sensation in culture scene. These exhibitions are results of the collaboration agreement between both Institutions to open a two-way channel to promote and develop the work of Chinese artists in Europe and Spanish artists in China.
Ouka Leele, a prestigious Spanish female photographer with an art career dating back to the late 70’s, ranks among the landmark figures of Europe as a contemporary of the American female artist Cindy Sherman. Ouka Leele participated into the new wave cultural movement La Movida, which began in Spain, especially in Madrid, during the 80s with the arrival of Democracy, and swept all over the European continent. Born in Madrid in 1957, Ouka Leele started painting when she was very young, always influenced by the Nature and the great masters from Museo del Prado. In 1976 she started her studies at Photocentro, an innovative photography school where you could glimpse the ideas that the young Spanish artists develop later in the 80s. Ouka Leele´s universe has always been between two worlds, painting and photography, the earthly and the spiritual. When she was studying fine arts at university, she also began to study photography, and a strong way to express herself was revealed to her. Driven by the need of painting and the fascination with black and white photography, she fuses both techniques and develops her personal artistic language. She still continues painting, but using photography to register the reality previously created by her.
In her work, the personal artistic language with the fusion of photography and painting, to quote her own metaphor, is “visual poetry, a manner of speaking without words, and a blend of drama, imagination, painting and photography”. A critic has named her work of black and white pictures hand-colored with watercolor as “fotoacuarelas” (watercolor photographies). The process takes four steps: take the picture, make the positive of the film, paint the positive, and conserve the image. Presently, her unique work develops along two paths: one is works of portraits, in which she interpretes reality with a difficult simplicity, the other a sentimental and intimate approach to the Nature, which is related to the concept of feminity and the creator of life.
Ouka Leele: Between Two Worlds is a comprehensive retrospective, organized by Iberia Center for Contemporary Art of Beijing and Tomas y Valiente Art Center of Fuenlabrada (Madrid), which will showcase a collection of 67 pieces of Ouka Leele´s works from all different stages of her artistic career: from Hairdresser´s Series of her first solo in 1979, and works of the 1980s during the new wave cultural movement in Madrid, La Movida.
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