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戏——现实与虚拟的镜像穿越
MISE EN SCÈNE, THE RECIPROCAL MIRRORING BETWEEN REAL AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
开幕 Opening: 2022.1.7 16:00
展览“戏——现实与虚拟的镜像穿越”将于2022年1月7日(星期五)于北京渡渡美术馆开幕。此次展览为艺术家刘若望2022年的首场展览,接下来会在陕西榆林渡渡美术馆举办第二场展览。本次展览由渡渡美术馆主办。
在一个充满不确定性的巨变时代,思想的表达变得越来越艰难,功利的审美正在侵蚀着艺术的独立性和纯粹性。此种社会语境中,刘若望的新作《戏》是不合时宜的。反精致化的浓烈色彩和粗砺笔触,意味深长的场景构造,无不透露出艺术家对精神领地的自我坚守。
这组作品以传统戏曲脸谱为要素,虚构的戏曲人物和以真人为蓝本的世俗人物以互为镜像的状态出现在同一空间,英雄壮怀与平凡众生构建起一个意义分裂却不可分割的戏剧化场景。观者沉浸其中,意识和情绪被牵引在戏与现实之间反复穿越跌宕。
这种虚拟与真实相互映照、对立交织的场景,映射着艺术家少年养成的英雄主义情结和悲悯情怀。刘若望生长于几代人虔诚信仰天主教的家庭,在匮乏年代的偏僻乡村,流浪戏班为人们带来有限的欢愉,戏台上的英雄故事激荡着少年的心。但荒诞也在同时发生:台上是帝王将相和才子佳人,台下是三教九流和贩夫走卒。台前是戏中人的富贵风流,台后是卖艺人的艰难困窘。这种强烈而残酷的反差烙印于心中,成为艺术家创作《戏》的最初动因。
《戏》是刘若望对少年时代的反观和一次情感释放。但艺术家的表达意图不止于此。在《戏》所营造的场景中,所见未必真实,幻象亦非无相。戏是现实的折射,现实中的缺失亦可通过虚构的故事得到心理补偿。而现实何尝不是如戏?人们隐藏于无形的面具之下,以过度修饰的人格塑造着一个难辨真假的人际空间。
《戏》也是一个隐喻。自从人类诞生于这个星球,对虚拟世界的执迷似乎从未停止过,中国戏曲可谓旧时代的代表之作。及至互联网时代和正在到来的元宇宙时代,由科技搭建的虚拟世界更是登峰造极,现实与幻境的边界愈加模糊不清。在未来,现实与虚拟共存将成为常态。刘若望希望以此提示人们,与无限接近完美的虚拟世界相比,真实的、有缺陷的现实世界,才是人类存在的意义和根基。
In an era of radical changes filled with uncertainty, expressing ideas is getting harder and harder. Meanwhile, the vainglorious aesthetics is threatening artistic independence and integrity. Mise en Scène, Liu Ruowang's latest artwork seems anachronistic in contemporary social context. The unrefined grittiness of strong colors and rough brush strokes, along with symbolic spatial design all demonstrate Liu’s resolve to defend his spiritual territory as an artist.
Inspired by traditional Chinese opera masks, Mise en Scène places fictional opera roles and real-life characters in the same space to mirror each other, creating a multivalent and inseparable dramatic world out of symbiotic heroism and ordinariness. Shuttling in and out of immersive scenes, Liu takes the visitors on a cognitive and emotional journey.
The reciprocal mirroring, as well as antithetical while inextricable scenes reflect hero complex and compassion that Liu developed when he was young. Brought up in a devout Catholic family, Liu got awestruck by heroic characters on the makeshift stage, played by folk opera performers who hardly ever visited the godforsaken village. What initially motivated him to create Mise en Scène was the lasting imprint after witnessing farcical absurdity of the intense and relentless contrast between the on-stage ensemble of imperial court, charming intellectuals dating fair ladies, and ordinary countrymen from all walks of life off the stage. A backdrop curtain separated the affluent, glamorous fairyland from the real world, in which opera troupe performers were struggling to earn a living.
Mise en Scène is a reexamination of Liu’s boyhood and an emotional release, reaching even further into a state where what you see is not necessarily real, and illusion is not entirely signless. Fictional scenes mirror and make up the missing pieces of reality. What looks more like a scene than reality anyway? Hidden behind invisible masks, over-filtered personas have been shaping an ambiguous interpersonal space.
Mise en Scène is also a metaphor. Since the birth of mankind on this planet, we have been obsessed with the virtual world. From the epochal Chinese opera of a bygone era, to the Internet community and coming meta-universe, the virtual eco-system, now powered by science and technology, has been unboundedly evolving, ceaselessly blurring the boundary between reality and fantasy. The coexistence of real and virtual will become the norm. However, Mise en Scène is a reminder that even if the virtual world can get infinitely close to perfection, the imperfect real world is why and where humans exist.
《戏》油画创作期间(拍摄于刘若望工作室)
刘若望
Liu Ruowang, a professional artist, is the founder of Beijing Dodo Art Museum, Yulin Dodo Art Museum, and Yukou Art Town in Jiaxian County. He lives and works in Beijing.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Joachim Gauck, New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key, South Korean Parliament Defense Commission Chairman Won Yoo-Cheol, South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Kim Byung-Joon have all personally express their congratulations to Liu Ruowang for his contributions and success in contemporary art.
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