NY Arts Beijing Space Press Release
　　紐約藝術(shù)·北京空間最新展訊

　　紐約藝術(shù)·北京空間推出最新三個展覽：

　　無路可走（No Way Out）——五大閑人作品聯(lián)展
　　Street Portraits, NYC ——紐約藝術(shù)家Katerina Kampiti攝影展
　　Ludus/游戲——十二位國際藝術(shù)家作品展

　　招待酒會：2008年8月10日（周日）3pm - 6pm
　　展覽時間：2008年8月4日- 8月31日
　　開放時間：周二至周日 10am - 4pm
　　展覽地點：紐約藝術(shù)·北京空間（朝陽區(qū)何各莊318藝術(shù)園，944路何各莊西口站下車）
　　Reception: 3pm-6pm, Sunday August 10, 2008
　　Exhibition Dates: August 4-31, 2008
　　Hours: 10am - 4pm (Tuesday-Sunday)
　　Location: NY Arts Beijing Space (318 Art Garden Hegezhuang Chaoyang District Beijing)

　　無路可走（No Way Out）——五大閑人作品聯(lián)展

　　參展藝術(shù)家：董劍霜、藍京華、王建華（林凡）、楊愛國、張柏秀

　　他們是一群聲氣相投的人。偏居在順義一個小小的農(nóng)村，時常在一起談天說地，頗有閑人風(fēng)范。“采菊東籬下，悠然見南山”，在這里，“閑”呈現(xiàn)的是特立獨行的、非功利的、關(guān)涉靈魂歸宿的人生態(tài)度和藝術(shù)理念。

　　出路在哪里？如何在蕪雜擁擠忙碌非凡的當(dāng)代生活中保持心靈的安寧？什么樣的生活才值得一過？

　　他們的畫呈現(xiàn)不同的面目，但卻相互印證著各自對中國傳統(tǒng)精神以及繁復(fù)現(xiàn)實的理解與把握。在當(dāng)代中國的現(xiàn)實情境中，以多元的手法，闡釋“閑人”對欲望、信仰、背叛、幸福以及苦難的解讀，展示人性的卑微與高尚，尋找靈魂的棲居之地。

　　畫布只是一個小小的空間，卻是心靈的安放之所，籍此他們得以繼續(xù)“閑”下去。

　　Street Portraits, NYC —— 紐約藝術(shù)家Katerina Kampiti攝影展

　　NY Arts Beijing Space is pleased to present the work of photographer Katerina Kampiti. The exhibition will take place from August 4th to August 31st during the XXIX Olympic Games with an opening reception for the artist on August 10, 2008, from 3 to 6 pm.

　　Street Portraits, NYC is a composed installation of 50 color photographs from Kampiti's three bodies of work, her ongoing series on "Female Portraits: A New York City Story", "The Men" and the "Group Portraits" developed over the course of four years (2003-2007).

　　The work is a kaleidoscope of people and the city and explores moments of street life, encounters with strangers and themes about identity expressions in public space. Each photograph stands alone as a unique piece but also in a dialogue with all the others.

　　"My work, is concerned with the human subject and with ideas of presence and absence, trust and intimacy, representations of the self, and how reality translates into pictures.

　　I am interested in people that are unique and ordinary at the same time, avoiding photographic clichés of irony or sentimentality. A certain gesture, an attitude, a light, their clothes, and details of the city in the background attracted me."

　　Men and women are depicted alone, in frontal position, looking directly at the camera and when in pairs they suggest their relationship with each other. The portraits involve the whole body figure and its relationship with the urban environment.

　　Katerina Kampiti was born in Greece. She studied photography at the School of Graphic Arts and Design in Athens, and graduated from New York University with a Master's in Studio Art. She has worked as a still photographer for movies and taught art and photography at The New York University, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and at the International Center of Photography. Her work was widely published in numerous publications nationally and internationally including Kathimerini newspaper, Kappa, Epsilon, METRO, SOLOARTE, Fota magazines. She is the recipient of two first prize national awards (Photography Circle, 1996, Elle magazine, 1998) and the special commendation of The National Book Center. Her work is presented in many solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States. She lives and works in Athens and in New York.

　　Ludus/游戲——十二位國際藝術(shù)家作品展

　　策展人/Curated by：Basak Malone

　　參展藝術(shù)家/Artists: Angela Earley, Graciela Cassel, Jane Mc-Adam Freud, Julien Vonier, Katherine Wood, Malgorzata Paryzinska, Margarita Pe-tre, Maz Jackson, Rene Breig, Robert Freimark, Stephen Gostt, Tove Hellerud.

　　“游戲”是一個西方心理和東方背景完美的結(jié)合。本展深究“對方”的概念，不受任何意念的拘束，透過語意游戲，參展藝術(shù)家探討邊界、中間、以及空間的概念。每個藝術(shù)家的靈感來源都不相同，從極簡的符號制造，到運用沙子和粗糙表面的繁復(fù)混合媒體作品，作品既細致又充滿熱情。本次展覽充滿極度個人的風(fēng)格，激發(fā)藝術(shù)家們各自的潛意識，也顯示生命的真相。

　　Ludus is a dynamic combination of Western psychology and thought within an Eastern setting. Investigating how representations of "the other" are not fixed or anchored in any single meaning, but invented and re-contextualized across a diverse signifying field that is indecipherable. Through semantic play participating artists are invited to address the space between themselves and others, sites that include, but are not limited to the concept of "the borderline," the "in-between," "the similacrum," and other "liminal spaces." Each of the artist's work spans a dynamic scope of inspirations and influences. From minimalist mark making, to complex expressive mixed media pieces that utilize raw materials such as sand and coarse surfaces, the works are delicate and passionate all at once. Deeply personal, the exhibition evokes their own subconscious while also revealing universal truths about the jo! urney and celebration that is life.

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