"很大程度上，日常生活的环境仍是一个‘抽象的’体系。"
展览时间 ——2021.5.8-2021.8.15
Opening——2021.5.8/16:00
【鼻炎患者】
春夏交接季节更替之际，某类敏感体质人群对外部天气、环境的变化会作出相应的应激反应，它出自人最本能的生理保护机制。身为“鼻炎患者”的艺术家本人的生活和创作也受到了影响，而正是这一特殊生理和精神状态激发了艺术家对个人经验的再次关注。
从个人感知，具体经验出发，对日常物品进行解构、拼接和再塑造，是刘冬旭惯常使用的创作方法。就这次项目中的八件新作而言，人的身体结构、运动方式，日常生活中的行为和动作、重复和习惯，都是构成作品中重要形式的来源。使用把手开合门柜的动作，拧药瓶盖子的动作……种种身体经验与灯具、门柜等家具金属部件、豆皮、环氧树脂等物质材料之间产生了具有个人趣味性的互动和转化。刘冬旭认为日常物和泥、石膏等传统雕塑中的基本材料一样，具有无限的可塑性，他一直在创作过程中尝试寻找新的形式，通过个人对已有形式的再处理去获得新的形式和趣味性。正如鲍德里亚在《物体系》中所提到的：“很大程度上，日常生活的环境仍是一个‘抽象的’体系：普遍来说，许多物品都在他们各自的功能里相互隔离，世人依他的需要，使它们共存在一个功能化的环境里……”[1]
传统雕塑最集中解决的问题之一是重心，而灯具的形式也是把重心作为第一要素的实例。在几组由灯具底座延伸出的作品中，绿色鼻炎喷壶的强行植入给底座带来了不稳定因素，四个着力点把重心的支撑功能简化到极致。相较于以往作品，新作中对光的使用是一种新鲜的尝试，在协调和可控范围内对光进行克制性处理，让光作为色彩去放大感知体验。对艺术家来说，光是一种特殊的亲密符号，即使从缝隙中发出，仍然能够让事物拥有被关注的特权，因为它创造了阴影，构织了事物的临时存在感。
[1]:《物体系》 让·鲍德里亚著，林志明译，上海人民出版社，第6页
A Rhinitis Patient
At the turn of the spring and summer seasons, a certain kind of people with sensitive constitution will make corresponding stress response to the change of climate and environment, which comes from the most instinctive physiological protection mechanism. As a “rhinitis patient”, the artist Liu Dongxu’s life and creation are also affected. But this forms a kind of special physiological and mental state that inspires him to pay more attention to his personal experience.
Liu Dongxu’s usual creative method is to deconstruct, splice and reshape daily objects from personal perception and specific experience. As far as the eight new works in this project are concerned, people’s body structure, way of movement, behavior and action in daily life, repetition and habit are all the sources of important forms. Like the action of opening and closing the door cabinet and screwing the lid of the medicine bottle... all kinds of action experience have had an interesting interaction and transformation with the metal parts of furniture such as lamps and lanterns, door cabinet, bean skin, epoxy resin and other material materials. He believes that daily objects, like the basic materials of traditional sculpture such as clay and gypsum, have infinite plasticity by personal perception and specific experience. So he has been trying to find new forms in the process of creation, and through personal reprocessing of existing forms to obtain new forms and interest. As Baudrillard mentioned in the Object System: “to a large extent, the environment of daily life is still an ‘abstract’ system: generally speaking, many objects are isolated from each other in their respective functions, but human beings make them co-exist in a functional environment according to their needs...”-[1]
One of the most concentrated problems in traditional sculpture is the center of gravity, and the form of lamps and lanterns also takes the center of gravity as an example of the first element. In several groups of works about lamp base, the forced implantation of the green rhinitis spray pot brings instability to the base, but the four focus points simplify the support function of the center of gravity to the extreme. Besides, compared with the previous works, the use of light in the new works is a new attempt. In the range of coordination and control, the light is adjusted because the light is used as color to enlarge the perception experience. For artists, light is a special symbol of intimacy. Even if it comes from the gap, it can still make things be concerned, because it creates shadows and constructs the sense of temporary existence of things.
[1]《Object System》, by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Lin Zhiming, Shanghai People's publishing house, page 6
关于艺术家
刘冬旭 1983年
生于陕西 工作生活于北京 他主要从事雕塑，装置，图像的创作。对刘冬旭来说，他的兴趣始终是去寻找雕塑中“新的形状”的可能；去关注雕塑作为物的属性——当它作为物语社会里的一种材质所能被表现出的更多可能。
个展
2018 感知形状 望远镜艺术家工作室 北京
2019 阿塔西亚 C5CNM 北京
群展
2013 MIDDLE，Notvital基金会 瑞士
2017 太多的爱 五五画廊 上海
2019 日常沟通 望远镜艺术家工作室 北京
2019 在网络的标志下—拼贴与梗
CLC Gallery Venture画廊 北京
2019 拼拼凑凑的利维坦 Luhring Augustine 纽约
2020 PI PPPP艺术空间 北京
2020 拼拼凑凑的利维坦 Bridge Projects 洛杉矶
Solo Exhibition
2018 Oblique Façades Telescope Beijing
2019 Ataxia C5CNM Beijing
Group Exhibition
2013 MIDDLE NOTVITAL Fundaziun Switzerland
2017 Art is Much Splendid a Thing Gallery 55 Shanghai
2019 Daily Communication Oblique Façades,Telescope Beijing
2019 Under the Sign of the Internet - Connections and Double Meanings
CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing
2019 A Composite Leviathan Luhring Augustine New York
2020 PI PPPP space Beijing
2020 A Composite Leviathan Bridge Projects Los Angeles
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