2011年11月27日 星期日

黎振寧個展 - 回憶是飲料 (文:鄧凝姿)


作為剛出道的藝術家,是次黎振寧的個人展覽是相當穩陣和謙虛的。跟很多我認識的藝術家一樣,黎氏在年青的時候從事非藝術範疇的工作,到了年長時,立定決心追求自己喜歡的工作,因此有計劃地去實踐自己的藝術追求,企圖做個全時間的藝術家。藉著是次的展覽,他回顧了自己以往的工作、所接觸過的人物和所經歷過的事情,以立體石膏倒模和素描的技法呈現出來。

黎氏以飲料器具象徵著具體的回憶事件,每一個器皿代表自己的過去,盛載在其上的是曾經共事的人物、和在過去年代所發生的社會事件,例如香港人重要的回憶「六四事件」的情與結。這些隨著黎氏即將告別以往的生活開始、在脆弱的石膏物料、和滿載感情的鉛筆線條中,毅然面向不確定的前路。

黎氏沒有延續讀書時期較為受人注目的創作形式,反而以自身的經驗、重新展開另一段創作歷程,以謙虛的態度和踏實的步伐去尋找真正屬於自己的藝術創作,為自己的藝術道路建立鞏固的根基。

2011年11月17日 星期四

<回憶是飲料>黎振寧個展

新進藝術家黎振寧於2010獲澳洲皇家墨爾本理工大學(香港藝術學院合辦)藝術學士 黎氏是一位新進有活力的藝術家,作品常以身體作為媒介去描述個人或群體之間的尋常經歷。

自今年中在學位課程畢業展中首次獲得關注後,黎氏繼續努力籌備和參與各類型展覽,如‘出爐 二零一一’藝術系畢業生聯展、‘窺月’行為藝術演出及‘人人可攝影’攝影展是次展覽乃正/側畫廊首次舉辦的藝術家個人展,亦是黎振寧的首次個展。 

<回憶是飲料> 展覽中,藝術家選了39個在工作時飲用過的飲品空樽然後重造。一個個空樽象徵了飲料進入身體後被吸收再轉化的生理過程。藝術家從新審視喝枝裝飲料的這個普遍行為,並把它體會成為一種私密的個人回憶記錄。

策展人: 李漢凌

<Memory is Soft Drinks> a solo by Lai Chun Ling, Dick

Emerging artist Lai Chun Ling, Dick, who received his BA in Fine Art from RMIT University (a joint program with Hong Kong Art School) in 2010, is an energetic and sincere artist. He always uses his body as the medium in the artworks to draw the common experience of himself or all the other people.

Having been given the first attention at his graduation exhibition this year, Lai never stops preparing and takes part in different kinds of exhibitions, such as ‘New Trend 2011’ Fresh Art Graduates Exhibition, ‘Peeping Moon’ performing art show and ‘Everyone can take photograph’ photo exhibition. This coming exhibition is Lai’s the first solo exhibition, as well as, the first artist solo exhibition presented by Front /SiDE Gallery.

In <Memory is Soft Drinks>, the artist chooses 39 empty bottles of beverages he had drunk during his work and re-makes them. Each of the empty bottles implies as the biological process that the drinks being digested and transformed in the artist’s body. The artist re-considers the very common behavior, drinking beverages, as his private memory review.

Curator: Li Hon Ling, Ramon
回憶是飲料

每天的工作,把這個行將四十的肉身不斷勞累著, 每天都不自覺地飲用各種飲料去減輕身體的疲倦, ,重新去審視觀察這個習以為常的行為之下, 發現身體每次消化完飲料之後…就有一枝又一枝掏空了的膠樽及玻璃樽, 它們的功能彷彿是紀錄了飲料在流逝的過程中…。
站在四十歲的關口前, 我決定來一個事業的大轉變, 到了明年的夏天, 這個吞嚥的過程, 已可能不單是為了支撐工作中勞累的身體, 而是見證因追求藝術而在求存生活中所產生的不安與掙扎。
手中空空的膠樽或啤酒樽,令我想起過去39年來肉體盛所載過的回憶, 有人說: 「時間是沙, 回憶是水」, 那麼, 這些飲料水的回憶已一一流過我的身體了。
39個樽, 不是39件故事, 而是40年的回憶。

黎振寧
二零一一年十一月

Memories is soft drinks

The work of each day toils the corporeal body which is turning 40. The unconscious intake of beverages of each day can ease body exhaustion. By reexamining the accustomed behavior, one discovers, the body, after every digestion of beverages and empties bottles after bottles,  functions to record the slipping away of beverages.

On the verge of my 40th year of existence, I decided to have a drastic career change. In the coming summer, the process of ingestion could be more than mere subsistence of the drudged body, but a witness to the striving of artistic living amidst disturbed restlessness.

The empty plastic bottles and beer bottles in my hands reminded me of the memories, held by the corporeal body, for the past 39 years. Someone once said, “Time is sand and memory is water”. In that sense, all memories flowed through my body indeed.

39 bottles, then, are not 39 stories, but remembrance of 40 years.

By Lai Chun Ling, Dick (November 2011)

2011年11月7日 星期一

Front/Side Gallery presents: <MEMORY IS SOFT DRINKS> a solo by LAI Chun Ling, DICK
Curated by: Li Hon Ling, Ramon
   
Front/SiDE GALLERY invite you to attend our second exhibition: <MEMORY IS SOFT DRINKS> to enjoy the opening reception on 15 NOV 2011, 18:30 - 20:30, Front/SiDE GALLERY.
 
Please join us for our warm reception and the great chance to share the artist's newest art works
 
Talk by Artist 15 NOV 2011, 17:30-18:30, Front/Side Gallery.
 
To learn more about Front/ SiDE Gallery: www.front-side-gallery.blogspot.com
 
 
正/側畫廊呈獻: <回憶是飲料> 黎振寧個展
策展: 李漢凌
 
正側畫廊邀請各下出席我們的第二次展覽: <回憶是飲料>, 開幕酒會 15/11/2011, 下午6:30 - 8:30, 正/側畫廊
 
與我們一起在悠閒的傍晚時份,齊享用特別為您而設的精美茶點, 並欣賞藝術家的最新作品!
 
藝術家講座: 15/11/2011, 17:30-18:30, 正/側畫廊
 
 

2011年11月1日 星期二

front side gallery 第一個展覽後感

今天10月31日, 是要拆展的一天, 由加入團隊策劃gallery的成立, 到加入第一個展覽, 那麼快又要預備第二個展覽: 回憶是飲料...

回想opening當晚的盛況, 感到興奮, 到現在仍有強烈的感覺, 像已有一隻腳整整地踏進了藝術這圈子, 來賓及朋友購買自己的作品, 是一種榮耀, 也是自己作為藝術圈子內的一種認同...

對我來說, 最細的gallery反而給我有一種安全感, 讓我有更大的自由度去演譯自己的作品...

最細小的空間, 在創作上沒有局限了自己的思維, 下一個展覽又可用另一種試驗性去發展...

期望gallery每一次展覽都能帶給大家一種本地藝術的強大生命力...

dick
人人可攝影.Everyone can take photograph 

作品之一one of the works:魂離Out-of body





Size: 3R color photos (3.5" X 4.5") and 4R color and black/white photos (4”X6”)
Framed size: No frame
Materials; Digital photo printing
Year of creation: 2011

藝術家作品概念artist statement from Lai Chun Ling, Dick:

當今人人可攝影, 及在網絡平台的催化下, 影像變成了數據化, 每人每天每刻都可上載影像到虛擬世界, 大量的數據又很快被大量的數據掩蓋, 彷彿影像漸漸脫離了由最初呈現在相紙的這個肉身之上...靈魂離開了肉身, 處於一種魂離的形態, 今天我們還真的是拿著一張照片嗎?

When nowadays everyone can take photographs, under the platform of the Internet, images have become digitised, everyone at every moment can upload images to a digitised world, loads of data may be replaced by another loads of data. The original physical body printed on these photo papers seemed to be departing from the image captured, like the soul is leaving the body, an of out-of-body stage. Are we still holding a photograph?