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Showing posts with label Travelogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travelogue. Show all posts

Sunday, July 4, 2010

漂洋上海 陳期 藝術有什麼用

2010年5月13日

今年五十三歲的蔡國強,以他獨特的火藥草圖和裝置藝術,成為國際當代藝術圈認知度最高的中國藝術家之一,他的作品在各大拍賣行屢屢拍出天價,用最庸俗的說法,是名成利就了,所以我並沒有預期他是這樣平實的人。看起來比實際年輕,穿風褸、卡其褲,一臉陽光笑容。

他介紹自己的創作經歷,提及一個火藥爆破習作,他坐在一塊空地上,醫學儀器監測着他的心跳和腦電波,他保持着平靜,如腳下的大地一樣沉穩,然後,他預先裝置好的火藥爆炸,儀器顯示,他的心跳腦電波和大地同一頻率震動。他在這時候回歸大地,和自然成為一體。

有時他要收起自己,做很自我的創作,有時他又希望展示自己給很多人看,所以他策劃一些大型活動。他說自己就是這樣時內時外,忽左忽右,亦中亦西。

一方面他會為自己有所成就,並可以幫助他人而高興,一方面他又覺得成就這東西很虛。一般人早上起來知道自己那一天會做什麼,但他就漫無目的。在他演說時,他的助手兼傳譯把他作品的拍賣價七千萬元說成是七十萬,他笑說,少一兩個零會覺得比較安全。

說到批評政府,會場突然斷電,米高風嘎然靜默,全場人都在調笑會場裏是不是有監聽。器材修復,他不忘幽一默,說這不過是技術故障,有時候我們也要負起責任,不能一味責怪政府。

我並不認為他這樣的觀點模稜兩可,態度騎牆,我反而樂見一個藝術家這樣充滿人性,在庸俗世界中遊刃有餘,一點沒顯得曲高和寡。

這可能和他個人在不同文化中的生活經歷有關,蔡國強出生在福建,在上海學舞台設計,一九八六年去了日本,開始了他的爆破藝術習作,一九九五年移居紐約。

蔡國強說,藝術可以表達自己的感情,也可啟發他人,我還覺得,藝術之偉大在於可以令人思想更深刻,而胸懷更開闊。

「蔡國強:農民達芬奇」要表現在集體意願和集體行為以外的這些農民個體的創造力。集體和個人,看似矛盾,其實也並非相生相剋。

世博已經開幕了,你一定看到不少混亂場面,然後尖刻地批判,以中國的國民素質,這是意料中事。你可能覺得世博會只是另一個國際笑話,不值得看。

但是你也可以想想,像蔡國強這樣的個體,作品中宣洩着傳統藝術和社會制度的壓抑,搞個農民創作展覽看似和世博唱反調,卻又獲邀策劃亞太高峰會和奧運等官方活動。

你可以並且應該繼續批判,因為這樣的批判在推動着某種進步,很有必要。但置身在這個社會中,我又不由得感到一點安慰,上海有世博,同時也有「農民達芬奇」,包容性正在逐漸擴大,這就是改變,而且看似方向正確。就算你不來看世博,至少也值得來看看這種改變。

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Paolo Veronese The Wedding at Cana. A Vision by Peter Greenaway

06 June 2009 - 13 September 2009

http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

87018a2861a250f4b399b4e7b667ec51 Peter Greenaway is well-known for his work combining images from art history and the language of film. Now after Rembrandt’s Night Watch and Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, the English artist will tackle Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and its setting of the Palladian Refectory on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Produced in collaboration with Change Performing Arts, the initiative is part of a larger project which includes the making of a film of the same title (The Wedding at Cana) to be given a world preview at the Venice Film Festival.

The Wedding at Cana facsimile offers Peter Greenaway the opportunity for an innovative and original interpretation via a state-of-the-art interplay of images, lighting, music, voices and sounds that will seem to emerge directly from the painting and the walls of the Refectory. The performance – a true multimedia event lasting about 50 minutes – will make spectators relive the episode of the marriage feast at Cana where Christ accomplished his first miracle, as narrated in the Gospel of John. Greenaway will point out to the public the painting’s scores of characters, from the servants preparing dishes, to the banquet guests, to the guests of honor – Jesus Christ and his mother Mary – seated at the center of the painting’s architectural composition, in an on-going crescendo culminating in the narration’s crucial moment: the miracle of water turning into wine.

In order to truly bring to light this extraordinary painting depicting a throng of over one hundred figures, the British moviemaker will make use of cutting-edge multimedia technology provided by Mediacontech, Italy’s main independent service provider, leader in solutions for the creation and management of content for digital media, museums and cultural industry.

The public will access the event in groups and at a specific time (every hour, on the hour) to share a unique and fascinating experience which – involving theater, art and moviemaking – places Peter Greenaway amongst the greatest artists who experiment unflaggingly with new means of expression for the new millennium.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009