劉小東，小豆在檯球廳閒著，2010，布面油畫，140x150cm，圖片由藝術家提供

展覽地點：UCCA大展廳

展覽時間：2010.11.17 – 2011.02.20

11月，尤倫斯當代藝術中心將推出本年度最後一個大展：《劉小東：金城小子》。為了該展，劉小東回到了他的故鄉遼寧省金城鎮。從今年7月到10月，他在金城將他的家人、童年的朋友一一描繪在畫布上，同時也用日記、速寫、照片等多種形式記錄下他這段時間的生活。在此期間，台灣著名導演侯孝賢將跟拍劉小東的此次創作，通過影像立體地展示劉小東的金城回憶。

劉小東來自一個人口不到1萬的小鎮金城，距離遼寧省錦州市25公里。在這個小鎮裏有一家造紙廠，創建於20世紀30年代。他家的所有家庭成員都曾在造紙廠工作。至今，造紙仍然是金城的唯一經濟支柱。過去幾十年間中國農村的飛速發展和日益嚴重的環境問題，給造紙廠和整個鎮子都帶來了巨大的變化。他曾經居住的房子、狹窄的街道、一些老舊的建築雖然經受住了時間的考驗，但在劉小東離開的這30年裏，早已物是人非。

此次為尤倫斯當代藝術中心特別打造的展覽《劉小東：金城小子》將展出20多幅劉小東的全新繪畫作品，200余篇生活記錄，以及侯孝賢導演拍攝的紀錄片，第一次完整、全面地呈現出著名藝術家劉小東的創作歷程和藝術實踐。

Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy

UCCA Big Hall

November 17, 2010–Februrary 20, 2011

This November, UCCA presents Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy, an intensive look into the practice of one of China’s most accomplished painters. For this solo show, created specifically for UCCA, Liu Xiaodong returned to his hometown of Jincheng in Liaoning Province to spend three months painting his family and childhood friends while documenting the experience through diary entries, sketches and photographs. In addition to the 20 new paintings and over 200 pages of diary entries on display, the exhibition also features a documentary about Liu Xiaodong’s homecoming by famed Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Through painting, writing and film, Hometown Boy offers an unusually panoramic view of Liu Xiaodong’s Jincheng memories, past and present.

When Liu Xiaodong left his hometown as an aspiring 17-year-old art student, Jincheng was a bustling little town where life revolved around the local paper mill. Three decades later, the physical, social and economic landscape has changed drastically: Jincheng’s narrow streets and houses remain, but the local economy has crumbled, unemployment is rampant, and years of environmental degradation have taken their toll. For the artist, it is a homecoming in which observations and depictions of the present are tinged with recollections of a vanished past.