A K Dolven個(gè)展——尋找平衡點(diǎn)
策展人：邵大衛(wèi)（David Thorp）
展覽時(shí)間：2010.6.6 - 2010.7.11
開(kāi)幕式：2010.6.5 下午15:00
展覽地點(diǎn)：站臺(tái)中國(guó)B空間
主辦方：站臺(tái)中國(guó)當(dāng)代藝術(shù)機(jī)構(gòu)
項(xiàng)目支持：OCA挪威當(dāng)代藝術(shù)辦公室&創(chuàng)新挪威-Nordland &挪威王國(guó)駐華大使館
挪威藝術(shù)家A K Dolven的中國(guó)首個(gè)個(gè)展將于2010年6月5日下午3時(shí)在站臺(tái)中國(guó)的B空間展出。展覽是站臺(tái)中國(guó)關(guān)于動(dòng)態(tài)影像在當(dāng)代藝術(shù)中所扮演的角色、及所處的位置系列對(duì)話中的一個(gè)組成部分。盡管A K Dolven的藝術(shù)實(shí)踐包括電影、錄像、攝影、繪畫以及定點(diǎn)裝置作品等，但在中國(guó)的第一次個(gè)人展覽“尋找平衡點(diǎn)”中所涉及的主要是動(dòng)態(tài)影像。
自中國(guó)當(dāng)代藝術(shù)出現(xiàn)至今，尤其是近些年來(lái)，它所涵蓋的各個(gè)領(lǐng)域均呈現(xiàn)出百花齊放的態(tài)勢(shì)。據(jù)此，我們可以看出，當(dāng)代藝術(shù)不再必須是以西方為中心的藝術(shù)，而是，作為全球整體的每一部分，由當(dāng)下各種藝術(shù)形式組成的當(dāng)代藝術(shù)家的作品展幾乎橫貫了整個(gè)東西方。A K Dolven在此次展覽中所展示的四個(gè)作品跨越了八年時(shí)間，盡管這四個(gè)作品以單獨(dú)的形式展出，但也從另一個(gè)角度反映了A K Dolven在和電影與錄像相關(guān)的方面所作的基本實(shí)踐。她的創(chuàng)作將人體作為承載了人類情感和心緒的器皿，并以此作為一種物質(zhì)形式和物質(zhì)世界的替代品；更多的，則是從以人為本的立場(chǎng)考慮個(gè)體存在的本質(zhì)條件，以及這些條件潛在的哲學(xué)立場(chǎng)在美學(xué)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)中所具有的反映和意識(shí)。無(wú)論是直接的還是間接的，作品中的每一部分都以他物為借鑒尤其是將風(fēng)景作為參考的載體。
這些作品都以A K Dolven對(duì)環(huán)境對(duì)事物的敏銳性為根基，最終成形于歐洲北部地區(qū)，以及圍繞著羅浮敦群島的景致中。冬季的山脈從上往下都被厚厚的積雪所覆蓋，而夏季，太陽(yáng)則懸掛在那里，永不落下。這種極端的氣候被Dolven當(dāng)做背景在使用，是一個(gè)和城市環(huán)境對(duì)照而言更為純凈和簡(jiǎn)單的現(xiàn)實(shí)存在，從而為她的映像創(chuàng)建了一個(gè)豐富多彩的舞臺(tái)。它的粗糙和簡(jiǎn)單的透視成為Dolven的創(chuàng)意溫床，當(dāng)她拋開(kāi)人類的經(jīng)驗(yàn)之談，回歸到基礎(chǔ)和本質(zhì)，就更加拓寬了長(zhǎng)久以來(lái)所形成的固有的視覺(jué)藝術(shù)范疇。
策展人：邵大衛(wèi)（David Thorp）
A K Dolven’s Solo Show looking for balance
Curate by: David Thorp
Exhibition Venue: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute
Exhibition Dates: June 6th – July 11th 2010
Exhibition Opening: June 5th 2010 15:00pm
Project supported by: OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Innovation Norway, Nordland; Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing
Norwegian artist A K Dolven's first solo show in China will be exhibited in the Space B of Platform China, opening at 15:00 p.m. on June 5, 2010. This exhibition is part of a continuing dialogue established at Platform China concerning the role of the moving image in contemporary art. Although A K Dolven’s practice includes film, video, photography, painting as well as site specific works, the show looking for balance presented for the first time in China concerns itself specifically with works made for moving images.
As the emergence of contemporary art from China has shown vividly in recent years, contemporary art is no longer necessarily West-centric. The work of contemporary artists is exhibited throughout the world as part of a homogenised global totality that comprises the art of today. In this exhibition Dolven is showing four works executed over a period of eight years that represent separate but interrelated and fundamental aspects of her practice in film and video - a concern with the body as the vessel within which human sensibility and emotions are contained and alternatively as substance in a world of form and matter; the existential condition of the individual considered from an essentially humanist position, and the potential these philosophical positions have to be realised within an aesthetic canon. Each either directly or implicitly makes reference to place and more particularly the landscape.
These works are rooted in Dolven’s sensibility formed in the northern reaches of Europe, in the landscape that surrounds the Lofoten Islands. Here in the winter the mountains that run down to the sea are covered in deep snow, in the summer the sun never sets. This extreme environment is used as a backdrop by Dolven, a reality that contrasts favourably in its purity and simplicity to an urban setting, creating a generous stage for her reflections. Its harsh and simple scenography has become a place where Dolven′s ideas can gestate as she reduces the human experience to fundamental conditions and broadens enduring conventions of visual art.
Curator: DAVID THORP