李景湖《雪人》

展覽時間：2010.03.20 - 04.20

展覽地點：箭廠空間

李景湖的《雪人》是一件特定現(xiàn)場的裝置作品。他以一種輕松的心態(tài)，用成卷的衛(wèi)生紙在空間里堆積起一座碩大的“雪人”，這個“雪人”將在一個月的時間里隨著貨品的不斷售出而在人們的視野中逐漸消失。將箭廠空間轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)橐粋€出售食鹽、洗衣粉和廉價低端衛(wèi)生紙的臨時商店，通過一種短期經(jīng)濟關系的建立，《雪人》觸及了本地日常生活用品的定價、購買和銷售這一錯綜復雜的過程，通過在一個日益活躍的社區(qū)商業(yè)環(huán)境中引入郊區(qū)批發(fā)市場的價值系統(tǒng)，從而達到滲透并適度擾亂當?shù)亟?jīng)濟的目的。

李景湖繼續(xù)其早期創(chuàng)作中對日常物品形態(tài)特征的關注，在這里僅選用白顏色的日常消耗品，并將它們塑造成雪人這一對他來說有些異想天開、充滿童趣的形狀，而實際上就在幾天前藝術家剛剛見到了平生中的第一場大雪。就像在現(xiàn)實生活中人們并不指望雪人能永久保存一樣，李景湖靠隔壁店主的幫助在一個月當中出售這些商品，直至“雪人”全部消失。巧合的是，他所購買的衛(wèi)生紙品牌恰好叫做“天天見”，這個短句道出了這件作品觀念的兩個邊緣：雪人短暫而稍縱即逝的存在，以及每天與這些生活消耗品的無奈遭遇。

李景湖在廣東東莞生活和工作，那里是導致中國“惡”名遠揚的“世界加工廠”之一，他的藝術實踐基于自己在這座南方工業(yè)城市中的日常經(jīng)驗與歷練。在親眼目睹了該地區(qū)發(fā)生的所有變化—從改革開放直到當下的經(jīng)濟萎縮，李景湖對于周遭普通市民的日常生存模式保持濃厚的興趣，他的創(chuàng)作手法一直在尋求彌合藝術與生活之間的分野， 而箭廠胡同對于藝術家此次作品的實踐似乎是一個非常適合的場所。

Li Jinghu Snowman

2010.03.20 - 04.20

Snowman by Li Jinghu is a site-specific installation and event that takes a lighthearted approach towards the consumption and distribution of everyday consumer products. Using everyday items such as packaged toilet paper, Li creates a larger than life size snowman, which will steadily ‘melt’ over time as the items are sold off at bargain prices. At once sculptural installation and interactive event, Snowman explores the intricacies of pricing, buying and selling of everyday goods within a localized setting while transforming Arrow Factory into a temporary shop for salt, washing powder and cheap low-grade toilet paper. Effectively relocating a wholesale market from the remote outskirts of town to the city center, Snowman attempts to infiltrate and disrupt the local economy by introducing wholesale prices amongst a growing retail environment.

Taking up his earlier concerns with the formal qualities of everyday objects, here Li selects only white color products and sculpts them into snowmen—a whimsical and imaginary form for the artist, whose first encounter with snowfall occurred just days before he began his installation. However, as in real life, snowmen are not intended to last. The artist has engaged the assistance of a neighboring shopkeeper to sell the items everyday for approximately one month until the snowmen gradually disappear. Coincidentally, the brand name of the toilet paper Li purchased is called 天天見“Tian Tian Jian” (literally ‘seen everyday’), a phrase which speaks to the work’s two conceptual edges: the fleeting, ephemeral presence of snowmen and unfaltering daily encounters with these common products.

Living and working in Dongguan, Guangdong, one of China’s infamous ‘world factories’, Li Jinghu’s artistic practice is highly informed by his own upbringing, everyday experiences and imaginations within and beyond this southern industrial city. Having witnessed the changes that have occurred in the region—from reform and opening until the most recent economic downturn—Li has developed a keen interest in the patterns of daily existence and the lives of ordinary citizens that surround him. Arrow Factory’s hutong is a fitting location for an artist who has grown accustomed to working away from the art centers of Beijing and Shanghai, and whose practice seeks to melt away the borders between art and life.

箭廠空間

箭廠胡同38號 (國子監(jiān)街內(nèi))

北京 100007 中國

Arrow Factory

38 Jianchang Hutong (off Guozijian Jie)

Beijing, 100007 China

www.arrowfactory.org.cn