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李刚的新方向
2008年4月的北京，在北京的798红门画廊将有一个创新性的展览，李刚的展览在于通过以前从未探索过的方向来重新改造他自身。
名为黑色灯光的展览包含的作品不仅是探索摄影这种艺术形式，它也促进了超越图象的媒介并代表了事件的领域、可能性和结果。
李刚作品的典型特性已经超越了他这一代的“艺术敏感性”并且影响了进程的可能性。表面上无所束缚-揭示了物质性的本质，无论他使用的是何种媒介。
在黑色灯光中李刚通过图片的互动、媒介和绘画把概念和过程的结构结合在一起。那些作品涉及到了这个世界-内部和景观，但是要多余所展示的。他们孤单的静止着所涉及到的空无要大于他们自身-材料、表面和形式。
这个展览将跟随在维也纳和巴伦西纳的他的两个新住处，在他创作作品的寻求中李刚探索了两个新的方向，对于操纵材料的争斗的表达当允许作品有它自身的生命。在此引述李刚的话：让上帝决定他在哪点中止-做为艺术家的引领之路。
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Li Gang’s new directions
BEIJING, April 2008 – In an innovative exhibition at 798 / Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, Li Gang shows that he can always reinvent himself through previously unexplored directions.
Titled Black Light, the exhibition contains work which not only explores the medium of photography, it pushes the medium beyond the pictorial and representational into the realm of accident, chance and event.
The characteristic feature of Li Gang’s work over a generation has been the interaction of his ‘artistic sensibility’ and the chance effect of process - seemingly uncontrolled - to reveal the essence of materiality in whatever media he works.
In Black Light Li Gang brings this conceptual and structural process together through the interaction of photography, metal casting and painting. These works have reference to the world – interiors and landscapes – but more than anything else, they stand alone as referencing nothing more than what they are – material, surface and form.
The exhibition will follow his two recent residencies in Vienna (2007) and Valencia (2008) in which Li Gang explored new directions in his quest to create work which is at once an expression of his struggle to manipulate material while allowing the work to have a life of its own. In Li Gang’s words - for ‘God to determine the point at which he stops’ - as the hand of the artist. |
