我们很高兴地宣布，王拓在空白空间的首次个展将于2017年4月7日开幕。此次展览将展出艺术家近年创作，涵盖以影像、行为及绘画为核心的多种媒介。

　　王拓的艺术实践通过在预设情境下对他人真实生存经验以及文献行为化的介入，来揭示当代人类境遇与精神遗产之间不稳定的关系。他的作品经常基于对已有文献(如文学、电影、戏剧、艺术史)的引用，来建立一个多重叙事的情节迷宫，展示有关当代社会戏剧化的、幽默而荒诞的成分。艺术家关注人造观念和意识形态如何从其历史语境中生发，并与持续变化的社会状况相适应的主题。

　　展览以《中毒》、《角色扮演》、《现实与自然》等影像作品与一组架上绘画间的互文关系，来探讨人造观念的实在性，以及当代世界中具有普遍性的意识形态如何被塑造、复制和强化。正如罗兰·巴特在《神话修辞术》中将那些渗透了意识形态的符号文本称为“神话”，艺术家通过其构建的叙事场提示我们深陷其中并从未超越的状态，试图在文献研究的基础上制造隐含当下境遇与细节的视觉档案。

　　王拓，1984年出生于中国长春，现工作生活于纽约与北京，目前为纽约皇后美术馆2015至2017年度驻馆艺术家。2007年毕业于东北师范大学生物学系，2012年获得清华大学美术学院绘画系硕士学位，2014年获得波士顿大学视觉艺术学院绘画系美术硕士学位。近期展览包括：“九”，皇后美术馆，纽约，美国(2017);“失忆事典”，泰康空间，北京，中国(2016);“唐纳天 & 王拓 – Only the Lonely”，inCube Arts，纽约，美国(2016);“一场关于真实的导览”，国立台湾美术馆，台中(2015);“Peekskill Project VI”，Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art，皮克斯基尔，美国(2015);“Tirana International Film Festival”，TEN Multimedia Center，地拉那，阿尔巴尼亚(2015);“Re-make/Re-build/Re-stage”，Vox Populi，费城，美国(2015)。

Addicted 中毒，2017，single channel 4K video (color, sound) 单频4K影像(彩色有声)，16'33''

　　We are delighted to announce the opening of Wang Tuo’s first solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING on April7th, 2017. This exhibition will showcase the artist’s latest creations, in the eclectic mediums of video, performance, and painting.

　　By intertwining unscripted lived experiences as told by ordinary people with the dramatized archive of predetermined situations performed by actors, Wang’s artistic practice reveals the unstable relationship between the contemporary circumstances of human beings and their cultural heritage. Based on references to existing archives (including literature, film, drama, and art history), his work constructs a maze of melodrama with multilayered narratives – presenting humorous yet dramatic components of contemporary society through the lens of absurdity. The artist focuses on how artificial concepts and ideologies are derived from their historical contexts, and how they adapt to the constantly shifting social conditions.

　　The exhibition highlights the intertextual relationship between the video works –Addicted; Roleplay; Real and Natural – and one group of paintings, exploring the substantiality of artificial concepts and demonstrating how universal ideologies in the contemporary world are shaped, replicated, and reinforced. In response to what Roland Barthes referred to as “myth” in Mythologies, a narrative with ideological motifs is developed, suggesting an all-encompassing condition that could not be surpassed. The artist aims to create a visual documentation of the present situation out of details gleaned from his archival research.

　　Born in Changchun, China in 1984, Wang Tuo currently lives and works in New York and Beijing. He is a 2015-2017 artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum in New York. In 2007, he graduated from the Biology department at Northeast Normal University, Changchun. He then obtained his MA in Painting from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2012. In 2014, he graduated from the School of Visual Art at Boston University with an MFA in Painting. His recent exhibitions include Nine, Queens Museum, New York, USA (2017); A Little Violence of Organized Forgetting, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2016); Nadim Abbas & Tuo Wang – Only the Lonely, inCube Arts, New York, USA (2016); The Real Thing, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City (2015); Peekskill Project VI, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA (2015); Tirana International Film Festival, TEN Multimedia Center, Tirana, Albania (2015); Re-make/Re-build/Re-stage, Vox Populi, Aux Performance Center, Philadelphia, USA (2015).

Roleplay 角色扮演，2016，single channel 4K video (color, sound) 单频4K影像(彩色有声)，24'31''

Real and Natural 现实与自然，2014， three-channel HD video (b/w, sound) 三频高清影像(黑白有声)，13'49"