喧囂和寂靜中出發(fā)——王念東作品展
　　Start from Hubbub and Silence Wang Niandong Solo Show
　　學(xué)術(shù)主持: 王林
　　Curator: Wang Lin
　　開幕酒會：2007年12月15日下午3:00
　　展覽時間：2007年12月15日 -- 2008年1月7日（周一休息）
　　展覽地址：北京朝陽崔各莊何各莊一號地藝術(shù)園/D區(qū)
　　E-mail: info@chinavarts.com

　　本來，唯美追求源自對形式的看重，強(qiáng)調(diào)繪畫自律，立足于本體論和形式主義。但這種精英化的審美追求，因其對“美即和諧”的特殊偏好，自然和傳統(tǒng)美學(xué)趣味相通，逐漸為大眾文化、商業(yè)文化所利用，成為廣告圖像和市場消費的主要對象。唯美主義和消費文化于當(dāng)代合而為一，是值得關(guān)注的。

　　王念東的想法正好相反，他不僅不去對抗大眾消費對于唯美的嗜好，反而把唯美傾向的女性形象推向極端，使之變得矯飾。

　　經(jīng)過若干極致化的處理，王念東在唯美表達(dá)中取得有意為之的矯飾效果，并在有意為之的矯飾效果中達(dá)到物極必反的異樣性。這是對于異化的彰顯，在虛假性的消費文化中揭示出消費文化的虛假性。這種從極端化到異質(zhì)性的變異，表現(xiàn)在女性形象中，則是真實與虛幻、誘惑與回避的心理矛盾。正是由于深度的潛意識欲望和公共的性消費對象所構(gòu)成的反差，取消了生活的真實性，也取消了欲望的真實性，使圖像化的文化消費變得與人的真實存在毫無關(guān)系，從而成為虛擬的符號化生存方式。從這個意義上講，恰恰是王念東的男性眼光能夠穿透生活表象，在心理內(nèi)省中，觸及到個人隱私亦即時代的秘密。

------------王林 《在追求與逃離之間》

Don't drank behind God （pastel）
109×78cm

　　Originally, locating on ontology and formalism, aestheticism comes from care for the form, and stresses the self-discipline in drawing. However, the elite pursuit for aestheticism is gradually exploited by the populace and commercial culture, becoming the major target for the advertising images and market consumptions, thanks to its special interest in “beauty is harmony” and based on the common interest of nature and traditional aesthetics. In contemporary times, the aestheticism and consumption culture is notably incorporated into each other.

　　Wang Niandong holds different ideas. Instead of opposing the aesthetic preferences shown among the populace, he has pushed the aesthetic female images to the extremes, delivering them into affected images.

　　Through diversified treatments that go extreme, Wang Niandong has realized effects in the aesthetic expressions, and the heterogeneity in the affected effects. He aims to highlight the heterogeneity and reveal the sophistry in the consumption culture through the fake consumption culture. The changes from the extremity to heterogeneity, when displayed in the female images, are their psychological contradictions between the truth and the unreal, between the seductions and the avoidance. The contrast between the strong subconscious desire and the public target for sex consumption has removed the truth of life and truth of desires, to the extent that the imaged cultural consumption has no relation with the physical existence of the human being, but turning into the virtual symbolized way for existence. From this point, Wang Niandong sees from a man’s perspective through life’s presentations and touches the individual secrets, the secrets of the time, in the psychological reflections.

------------Wang Lin《Between Pursuit and Escape》