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仰天长啸的类人猿、生猛狰狞的狼群，刘若望塑造了一个又一个遗世而独立的“原始”梦境。它们的出现看似荒诞，却又娓娓道出关于人类本性的深思。在刘若望的作品中，压力和张力促成了一种明显的威严感，他有属于自己的表现语言，这来源于他所谓的“心境”。
Roaring apes and ferocious wolves, Liu Ruowang continues creating artworks than embody independent primitive dreams. Their appearance is characterized by absurdity, however they metaphorically represent human nature. In Liu Ruowang's works, the feeling of pressure and tension contributes to convey sense of authority. Liu Ruowang adopts a distinctive and unique expressive language that belongs to the realm of what he defines as "a state of mind."
在侨福芳草地入口处设置的人猿作品《原罪》，可以看出是一个悲哀的寓言：他们身为类人猿，终其一生也无法摆脱这个身份，却对那遥远的天空寄予希望，祈求获得救赎。
Liu Ruowang’s artwork titled Original Sin and placed at the entrance of Parkview Green FangCaoDi, represents a group of apes and embodies a tragic symbolism: apes cannot get rid of their identity, but they still yearn for a spiritual elevation and pray for salvation.
Q&A
对于侨福芳草地这个艺术集合体是怎样看待的？
What do you think of Parkview Green FangCaoDi as an art space?
这是一个非常好的出路。因为我要去看美术馆的话，可能今天我就是冲着要去学习，我要做好准备。
I think it's a very interesting concept. If I want to go visit an art gallery, I need to prepare in advance and to study.
但像侨福芳草地，它有影院，有餐厅，有咖啡，在这样一个环境里面，跟我最早去做《狼来了》、《东方红》是一样的，让艺术跟大众互动起来。作品放在这个环境里面，大众跟你一起创作或者产生一个新的语言是非常有意义的。
However, in Parkview Green FangCaoDi, there are restaurants, a cinema, cafes and many different commercial spaces. People can interact with these spaces, in the same way they interact, for example, with my earlier works Wolves are coming and The east is red. Any artwork, placed in a certain environment, through the communication and the interaction with the public, acquires new meanings and new expressive languages. I think this is very meaningful.
《狼来了》
Wolves Coming
艺术本身就来自于生活。我前一段时间还在说一个观点，因为有一些所谓的专家说，你做的那个东西可能太阳春白雪了，离我们大众的需求太远了。
Art comes from life. I was arguing this a long time ago. Now also many experts share this opinion: they often criticize artworks that are too difficult to understand for the public.
所以艺术本身不一定让大家看不懂或者怎么样。我觉得大家看懂看不懂，即使你看不懂是因为你是从中间开始，比如说你看一本书，你从中间看的当然看不懂了。你要去看一看整个他的创作脉络，他的一些思维模式，他的观念，你就能够看懂了。所以艺术本身就离大众，我觉得是没有距离的，应该是这样。
I think that people not necessarily always understand art, and this should not be an issue. For example, sometimes they don’t understand it because they look at certain artworks partially, as if they start reading a book halfway. In order to achieve an understanding of art, people should grasp the whole artistic concept, the creative process and the ideas behind a work. So, there should not be a distance between art and the public.
如何看待您的作品《狼》和《原罪》被放置在公共空间？
What do you think of your works Wolf Coming and Original Sin being placed in public space?
《原罪》
Original Sin
实际上是因为一开始我希望大众能够看到我。后来我觉得像这样的方式，慢慢的我的观念都在改变。所以我一直在做的就是跟大众能互动的，能够参与的，能够让大众走到这个作品里面。所以我不定位自己是一个雕塑家，可能更倾向于装置或者跟环境互动的作品。
At first, I just wanted the public to see my works. Afterwards, I changed and I further developed this concept: so, I started making works that interact with the public and that involve the viewers, almost making them get into the artwork itself. Rather than a sculptor, I would define myself an artist working with installations and making artworks that interact with the public and with the surrounding environment.
我们这个作品不是为了让大家看了以后，你会感觉到很愉悦，很舒服。我觉得要通过这个作品，让大家能感受到一种压力和紧迫。
Through this artwork, my aim is to make people experience a sense of pressure and urgency, and not to make them happy.
你看到的时候，可能不是一个完整的作品呈现，最早在侨福芳草地放的那个下沉广场的时候，像那个《狼》和那个《原罪》，他是两个时期放的，那个时候是完整的一个呈现。实际上狼中间还有一个人，然后有110匹狼跟他的这样一个关系。
When you first see the work, you might have the impression that it is not a complete work. At the beginning, it was displayed in Parkview Green FangCaoDi in the square below the ground floor. Coming Wolves and Original Sin were placed in two different periods and they looked like a complete work at the time. There was only one man among the 110 wolves.
我当时就是希望人走进去以后，在狼的中间你看到了无数只眼睛和无数个鼻孔，牙齿，冲着你，就是让你感觉到有一种紧迫感。所以我觉得实际上你的感觉也是当时我们创作的一个想法，让人能够在生存的困境里面能够感受到，在艺术作品中能感受到人的这种生存压力和焦虑，是这样的。那么在这个大的群体里面，他每一个都是望着天空，都是互相没有联系的，没有关系的这样一种，我实际上表现的是一种集体的孤独。
At the time, my aim was that people who would walking inside, seeing countless eyes and mouths, noses and teeth around them, would feel a sense of anxiety. So, the idea was to make people experience the same frustration and pressure that they could feel in real life: the work was a metaphor for the struggle to survive. In this group, each element looks at the sky and does not interact with the others: I wanted to represent the solitude and loneliness among the collectivity.
在我们现代这种发展中，我们的物质可能会越来越好，但是我们会对环境，对人自身的生存，我们把一种简单的生存的快乐或者是生存的条件，就是说我们最基础的条件可能都被破坏了。所以呢，这个作品他就是一个非常大的群体，但是我们每一个人都是紧张的，孤独的，没有联系的这样一种关系。
In our modern society, material conditions are getting better and better; however, the environment, our lives and the feeling of existential happiness are being undermined. This artwork represents a large collectivity where each individual is frustrated, lonely and does not have any relationship with the others.
生于这一时代的每个人，都在不断接受着旧文化的延续和新文化的冲击。我们的文明看似在不断脱离原始，但又始终被原始拉扯。刘若望用他的创作呈现了原始欲望与人类理想更深层的关系，这或许会是“人与自然和谐共处”的第一步。他的作品被散落地放置在侨福芳草地内，即刻前往，近距离感受刘若望的艺术世界！
Everyone who is born in our era, is subject to the influence of the clash between the continuation of the traditional culture and the impact of new cultural elements. Our civilization seems to break away from the primitive human instinct but at the same time it is also driven by this primitivism. Liu Ruowang uses his works to show a deeper relationship between primitive desire and human ideal, which may be the first step to achieve a "harmonious coexistence between human and nature". His works are scattered in Parkview Green FangCaoDi. Now let’s walk in and experience artist Liu Ruowang's art world.
《东方红》
The East is Red
《原罪》
Original Sin
《狼来了》
Wolves Coming
如果你想了解更多侨福芳草地与刘若望的对话内容，可以点击查看完整版视频。
If you would like to find out more about Parkview Green FangCaoDi's conversation with artist Liu Ruowang, click to watch the full video.
衍生自侨福芳草地艺术文化板块的视频节目《遇见》，每期将记录一位艺术家关于艺术、关于生活的畅谈，区别于传统的对谈形式，《遇见》以更朴实、直白的方式解读当代艺术，进一步倾听他们对创作、生活、世界以及生命的感悟。每双周三于爱奇艺上线，持续双周更新，在侨福芳草地微信公众号也将欣赏到。
"Encounters" is an artist talk show from the Art and Cultural section of Parkview Green FangCaoDi. Each issue of the show focuses on an artist talking about life and art. The approach is different from traditional artist interviews or documentary programs as artists converse in a simple and straight forward way, about their feelings and their concepts of creation, life, world and inspiration. Please keep an eye out for "Encounters", which will be updated on iQIYI and other video plateforms every two weeks.
作者：侨福芳草地
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