“光的书写者”——当代影像艺术展

展览策展 /  展示设计 /  视觉形象设计 /  海报设计

2016

策展人语

曾经，我们等候着一丝渐晓若明的微光以迎接新生的黎明；现在，我们生活在一片灯火通明中昼夜不息。我们的周围已布满各色强烈的感官诱惑，它们正在极尽所能地频繁刺激着我们的神经。

“现在的世界，一天天往科学路上跑，盲目地崇尚物质。人类与人类便一天天隔膜起来。本是人类制造了机器，现在人类却变成了机器的奴隶，受了机器的指挥。便是使人类能在音乐、雕刻、图画、文学里又找见人类遗失了的情感：四周的空气会变得温柔，眼前的对象会变得更甜蜜，似乎觉到自身在这个世界上有一种伟大的使命。”

——蔡元培《与时代画报的记者谈话》，1935年

80年前蔡元培先生的一席话如今依然能够给人以警醒。我们已迈入一个更加热切的时代，我们的文明已然制造出竞相洪亮而斑斓的光线、声音、色彩，而事物也仿佛必须足够锋利和浓郁才能引发我们的关注。我们彼此之间，通讯的发达与便捷让距离缩短，而我们的想象力却开始依赖“诗和远方”；互联网可以神奇地让这个世界在一瞬间被打通任督二脉，爱德华·斯泰肯在20世纪50年代呼唤的“人类一家”时至今日早已不再是乌托邦的宏愿。我们正在使用智能的科技与精密的工具试图掌控和改造万事万物，而我们通过人类的直觉辨识与判断事物细节的能力却在不知不觉间遭受着剥夺。人性被异化，清晰又饱和的物之细节让这个世界在我们眼中不再神秘，随之被淡薄的还有我们的敬意。

但是，艺术可以拯救并唤醒我们所有的感官体悟。

《2016“光的书写者”当代影像艺术展》，汇聚王冬龄、王宁德、邵文欢、汤南南、储楚、塔可六位杰出的中国艺术家，他们用光书写出中国影像艺术语言的生成与转化，用与记忆连结的幽微细腻甚至近在咫尺不必讨好远方的光影，引领我们触碰最敏锐智慧的观念之形与意象精神，靠近最纯粹本真的历史及其风景。这一束光，也是人类古老文明的火种，它使我们可以在今天与我们的祖先共同分享源自时间的宝藏，它同时开启过去、现在，和未来之门，链接着人类的想象力与创造力，表达出我们的肉眼不可视的那些被物化的精神。

“图像只是另外一种书写方式，一种栩栩如生的符号，并且这种符号能够将自身伪装成它所描绘的事物、观看的方式以及事物的本质，并提供直接摹本。”   ——德里达（Jacques Derrida）

“媒介即信息。”   ——麦克卢汉（HerbertMarshall McLuhan）

在此，艺术家的作品还分别关注着“书写与制像的本源”，以及“文本与影像的共生、同源、互译”。我们也试图通过这些作品来一探中国当代摄影中的语图构建，而这一过程的实现则穿越了形式和语义的前沿阵地，它们彼此融合、交叠、渗透、转译，突破其各自原有的表现力界限，也探索着影像意义阐释的无限可能性。

艺术家是历史的写作者也是文明的解说者，他们还是用热情的眼神与世界对视的诗人。这里的几位艺术家分别以光为媒、以墨为玄、以诗为道，让书写与制像之本源复现，在文本与影像之间自如而机智的转换。或许，只有从单纯的形式出走，才能抵达艺术精神的内核。“光的书写者”，再次印证了“媒介即信息”，在颠覆传统视觉艺术语言的格局之上，“辨识度”与“分辨率”早已不再是实现意义的唯一标准和路径；而对于当代艺术语言的传达来说，其本身或就是一种悖论，传播目的的实现是建立在对原有工具与法则的抛弃之上。

因此，这里的作品都已然超越了个体的艺术趣味，并不断进行着艺术的开拓性实验，书写着人类表达世界的智性与价值。

策展人 祖宇

艺术史博士、Light Gallery艺术总监

 2016.7，于杭州

We used to be standing the gleam for the advent of dawn, but nowadays we are living in a field of lightings day and night. We have been overwhelmed with a network of sensory temptations that are endlessly incenting our nerves.

In this enthusing era, our civilization has manufactured bright and colorful beams, sounds and hues, and things have to be pervasive and powerful to induce our notice. Easy communications have greatly curtailed distance between us, while our imagination starts to be subject to “poems and the future”. Internet has all in a sudden broken through obstacles among people. The idea of “One Great Human Family” proposed by Edward Steichen in the 1950s is no longer utopia. Human kinds are harnessing smart technologies and precision tools to master and reform thins, but our ability to distinguish and judge is silently diminishing.Clear and full details have unraveled mystery of the world, and our respect for it has fainted away.

However, arts have the charm of awakening the senses deep inside us as creatures. Light Writers 2016 Contemporary Image Art Exhibition, bringing together six Chinese outstanding artists that includs Wang Dongling, Wang Ningde, Shao Wenhuan, Tang Nannan, Chuchu, Taca Sui. Their artworks are able to create forms with the faint, fine and single colored gleam, and pilotour views toward subtleness and the plainest scene of history. This gleam is the tinder passed over to us by ancient civilization and allows us to enjoy temporal wisdom with our ancestors. It connects the past, the present and thefuture, links imagination and creativity of human kind, and delivers the invisible souls that have been materialized.

This artwork exhibition is a display of “writings by lights”, a practice of generating and transforming image languages. We attempt to trace the origin of images and texts, and this practice has passed through the fore frontier of imaging VS writing, form VS meaning. These elements are merged, overlaid, permeated and translated, breaking the boundary of their representativeness and promising endless possibility of rendering.

Artists are authors of history, interpreters of civilization, and poets with passionate views towards the world. The artists here in base lights as medium, inks as color and poems as methods, to recreate origin of writing and imaging and enjoy smooth and smart switches between the two elements. It may well be that only breaking away from mere forms can we each the soul of arts. Display of light language confirms the phrase ‘medium is information’. By breaking away from traditional norms for visual arts, image resolution is no longer the only standard or way for creation. For expression of contemporary visual arts, it is itself a paradox, the realization of which is based on abandon of traditional tools and rules.

These contemporary artworks have surpassed individual pursuits to undertake explorative practices and record intelligence and values of humans’interpretation of the world.

Curator: Daisy Yu Zu

Phd Art History, Art Director of Light Gallery

Curator of  Light Writers 2016 Contemporary Image Art Exhibition