開幕酒會(huì)：2009年8月1日 下午3點(diǎn)

展覽時(shí)間：2009年8月1日至9月27日，周三至周日，11點(diǎn)至下午6點(diǎn)，接受預(yù)約

展覽地點(diǎn)：緣分新媒體藝術(shù)空間 大山子798藝術(shù)區(qū)七星東街

Yam Lau

A Hutong House or an Unfolding of Evanescence

Jean-Fran?ois C?té

Constructing the Image : The City - The Hardware - The Library - The Landscape

The Yuanfen New Media Art Space is honored to showcase French-Canadian artist Jean-Fran?ois C?té and welcomes the return of Chinese Canadian artist Yam Lau. Jean-Fran?ois and Yam have come together to create Imagining the Image, a unique exhibit that delves into the perception and conception of the image, moving beyond the typical image vs. reality construct. Although the two artists are divided by differing subject matter and artistic sensibility, they are united in redefining the "image" through experimental logic, weaving together the imaginary, conceptual and concrete.

兩位藝術(shù)家的作品，展示了如何將一種"圖像"的新型概念在經(jīng)典圖像與現(xiàn)實(shí)范例的外部加以構(gòu)造。取代在經(jīng)典模式化的一端固定一個(gè)絕對(duì)的界標(biāo)，兩位藝術(shù)家的作品要傳達(dá)的是，一個(gè)"圖像"是由復(fù)雜的維數(shù)和強(qiáng)度所組成。忽略在主題和情感上的差異，兩個(gè)展覽都將機(jī)械裝置作為前景，以這樣的方式，一種"圖像"被拓展的概念可以根據(jù)一個(gè)邏輯的實(shí)驗(yàn)類型被安排與組裝。

Yam Lau

"The purpose of my work is to subtract weight from the world."

Yam Lau's Hutong House is an animation created in order to capture the special spatial qualities of the traditional Beijing courtyard house. As Hutong House is a digital construction and produced through the assemblage of images it is not enough to be a house. However, as one watches the deconstruction process and evanescence of the Hutong House, the unfolding of the "house" manages to project the illusion of volume, and through this becomes quite real. The breakdown of the components which make up the animation reveal to the audience that it is not merely a hollow visual representation, but a physical house in the land of zeros and ones. Yam notes: "The animation is the construction of a space I would want to go to, its rhythm is a rhythm by which I would like to live. It is a projection of what I admire most in an ideal China." The animation of a disappearing Hutong House may also be a subtle commentary on the disappearance of much of Beijing's cultural heritage in the name of progress.

作品初衷——抽離世界之重

我創(chuàng)作的《四合院》是一部用來理解與留存北京地區(qū)一座精巧院落空間的影像作品 。《四合院》集合了不斷變換的圖像與平面，"不足以"被視作房屋。然而，我認(rèn)為其中"房屋"瞬息萬變的伸展過程呈現(xiàn)出了體量與價(jià)值上的虛幻性，這一點(diǎn)隱現(xiàn)于這場(chǎng)幻象之中。

這部影像作品建構(gòu)出了一種我想要深入其中的空間，并展現(xiàn)出了我所期待的生活節(jié)奏，映射出我最為向往的"理想中國"。

Jean-Fran?ois C?té

Jean-Francois' Constructing the Image series is about developing the image by forging together elements from the viewers imagination, the physical and the digital. The works are designed to reveal another type of image, one that does not correspond to any predetermined dimensions or modes of representation. The image is thus virtual in the sense that it is not entirely conditioned by the material reality of any artistic medium. In perceiving this image, the viewer moves inside a work that is not seen or represented. In a way, the viewer walks through the material image of the mediums.

建構(gòu)圖像：城市-硬體-圖書館-風(fēng)景

本次展覽是關(guān)于在虛構(gòu)、觀念以及具象等多重維度的復(fù)雜關(guān)系中所建構(gòu)圖像的方式。其中的視頻與照片作品揭示出了另外一類圖像，這類圖像不會(huì)與任何先在維度或是再現(xiàn)方式相應(yīng)和，圖像的虛擬性也因此不會(huì)因藝術(shù)媒介質(zhì)料的現(xiàn)實(shí)感而受限。在感受圖像時(shí)，觀者會(huì)步入一件未能見過或無法描繪的作品，以某種方式，穿行在各種媒介質(zhì)料的圖像之間。