後生可畏
展覽名稱：《Yeah!解剖——任軍個人作品展》
策 展 人：任軍
展覽總監：陳德城 杜放
展覽執行：馬艷
展覽統籌：顧佳君
媒體聯繫：盧星 王嬋娟
展覽時間：2008年5月17日-2008年5月25日
開幕酒會：2008年5月17日
展覽地點：上海多倫現代美術館1-2層
主 辦 ：上海多倫現代美術館 協辦：美術焦點傳媒
上海多倫現代美術館將於2008年5月17日至2008年5月25日舉辦“任軍個人作品展”。
任軍，生長和受教育于西安這個漢唐遺韻至今仍非常濃厚的古都，後又成為中國第一批介入市場的公共雕塑藝術家，並長期地頻繁穿梭于國際之間。但正是在這種對傳統文化、國際文化以及本土社會文化狀況的一定程度的把握之下，他選擇了回歸和關注當下的本土經驗和文化問題。他的“耶（Yeah）”系列作品，是其通過細緻地採樣、考察、研究的基礎上，綜合自身的國際視野和本土經驗，以及對傳統文化的把握，比對和探尋當下中國人的差異性文化心理，並在其繪畫中以“耶”這一手勢作為深層心理意識的噴發點。
“耶”這一手勢，在當下的中國非常的普泛與流行，成為了日常性動作。作為源自西方文化的象徵性手勢，它本來意指VICTORY(勝利)。但是具有諷刺意義的是，西方人使用它的頻率，其實遠沒有中國人這麼高。“耶”這一手勢的普泛，其實是流行文化佔據主導文化地位的顯徵之一，它暗示了某種在各階層之間趨同的文化心理。而在當下，它的頻頻使用，與某些日漸膨脹的欲求有潛在的關聯，是一種集體意識的流露。所以，任軍選擇它，是希望它作為通行的關鍵性動作來凝練地傳達某種當下集結的群體性心理態勢。
在繪畫語言方面，他摒棄技巧和趣味，用大號畫筆和非繪畫性工具“放手直取”，因為這樣才能保持一種單純與直接性，在瞬間“爆發”之中捕捉和傳達他無法言傳的獨特體驗與認知，這種語言方式，以其具體性而使得幅幅作品都有特定的指向，從而整個系列的作品具有了一定的豐富性和精準性，與那些千篇一律的符號化拉開距離。而灰白的色彩則注入更多的主觀態度，把這些在當下正在熾情綻放的“活色生香”産生一種時間距離，以供歷史眼光審視、歷史意識反思。
在歷史意識的驅動之下，任軍這些力圖捕捉、涵蓋部分人群在當下的主要心理訴求和樣態的作品，具有一定的文化研究意義和歷史價值。
大盤震蕩
Yeah! Dissection——Ren Jun’s Works Exhibition
Curator: Ren Jun
Producer: Chen Decheng
Administrative Director: Du Xiyun, Du Fang
Exhibition Coordinator: Gu Jiajun
Media: Lu Xing, Wang Chanjuan
Date: May 17 – May 25, 2008
Opening: May 17, 2008 3:00pm
Venue: 1-2/F, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, No. 27, Duolun Rd
Presented by: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Co-operator: Art Focus Media
For further information:
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Lu Xing Tel: 65406703-106, Wang Chanjuan Tel: 65406703-103
Email: nhkbook@hotmail.com chanjuanwang@gmail.com
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art will hold the “Ren Jun’s Works Exhibition” from May 17th, 2008 to May 25th 2008.
Born and educated in Xi’an, an ancient city remaining the charm of Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, Ren Jun became a pioneer involved in the market as a public sculpture artist, shuttling around the world over the years. It is under this situation where traditional culture, international culture, and local culture of society coexist that he chose to return to his motherland and follow closely the current local experience and cultural issues. The series of “Yeah” is an “eruption”of deep psychological awareness by using the hand signal “yeah” in the pictures. All these are done to compare and find out the differences among today’s Chinese in their cultural psychology through combining his international vision with local experience, and his understanding of traditional culture on the basis of carefully collecting samples, examining and studying.
Nowadays, the hand signal “yeah” is popular in China, and has become a daily motion. As a symbol gesture originating from western culture, it originally refers to VICTORY. Ironically, the westerners use it far less than Chinese.
The popularity of the hand signal “yeah” is one of the features that pop culture occupies the guiding culture, which suggests the symmetry of cultural psychology among levels of all kinds. At present, the frequent use of it bears some latent relation to the increasing desire, revealing a kind of collective awareness. Therefore, the reason why Ren Jun chooses it is that he hopes to express concisely some current psychology of a group of people.
As to the way of painting, he casts off painting techniques and fun and uses the large-size paintbrush and non-painting tools to express his art concept freely and directly, which keeps the purity and the directness. In the “eruption”, he seizes and expresses his unique feeling and understanding, which cannot be expressed in language. Different from those stereotyped works, his unique art language gives all his works a special direction, thus bringing the whole series richness and exactness. Containing more subjective attitude of the artist, the grayish-white hue intends to create a sense of distance of time to today’s vigorous lives in his works, by which a viewer can look closely at these paintings with the eye of history and reflect upon the past.
Driven by the awareness of history, Ren Jun tries to seize and cover the state of mind and its ways of expression of a group of modern people. Therefore, his works are of cultural study value and historical value.
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