[北京]“少作” 和 “狗年十三个月”

展览名称：少作 —— 构建资本主义社会的灵魂
          狗年13个月
艺 术 家：奥利•约翰•安达尔
          李郁 & 刘波
策 展 人：Andreas Rishovd、苏文祥
展览开幕：2009/6/13  17:00
展览日期：2009/6/13 – 7/12
展览地址：伊比利亚当代艺术中心(中国北京朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798艺术区E06)
艺术总监：夏季风
出 品 人：高平
主    办：伊比利亚当代艺术中心，Porsgrunn Art Society，西班牙国际文化艺术基金会

展览简介：
我们非常荣幸的邀请您参加由伊比利亚当代艺术中心和挪威Porsgrunn Art Society共同举办的联合项目：它们由两个个展组成，一个是来自挪威的艺术家奥利•约翰•安达尔的“少作 ——构建资本主义社会的灵魂”，另一个是来自中国的艺术家组合李郁、刘波的“狗年13个月”。

通过与国外艺术机构密切和有效的合作向中国介绍西方的当代艺术，同时向欧洲或西方推介中国年轻的当代艺术，这是伊比利亚当代艺术中心秉持的基本理念和工作方向之一，我们热切的希望伊比利亚当代艺术中心能够成为中西方艺术增进彼此沟通与了解的一个平台。也许通过本次并置式的展览，我们能够了解艺术家们是如何选择通过摄影这样一个共同的技术手段，来呈现各自于不同地理境域中迥异或者是相似的发现。

“狗年13个月”

“狗年13个月”是两位武汉艺术家李郁和刘波的系列摄影作品，其创作灵感源自当地几家重要报纸的社会新闻报道。李郁和刘波在艺术创作中观察现实世界，利用媒介自身以及仿照舞台摄影风格拍摄出的场景颇有几分用类似肥皂剧般的录像作品来诠释现实。

早在1998年，两位艺术家就围绕刘波关于伤害和暴力的想法以及暴力在艺术史中的表征等概念开始了合作，随后他们的创作与李郁在现实生活的新闻故事基础上进行艺术虚构的兴趣进一步相结合。他们对新闻故事的复现以一种充满人性的方式挫败了新闻媒介，那些如同明信片的美景所描绘和闪现的是生死、爱恨、谋杀与癫狂、复仇、正义与暴力、社会变迁以及信仰的沦丧。

“少作 —— 构建资本主义社会的灵魂”

自由主义市场经济让全球的商业公司得以通过新闻媒体和广告活动中的光鲜图像和视觉修辞来改变我们思维和感受的方式。艺术家奥利•约翰•安达尔对这种图像轰炸带来的噪音干扰心存忧虑，同时担心它们对正处于自我身份形成早期阶段的青少年会造成影响，因此MMS（多媒体短信服务Multimedia Messaging Service）带来的新现象激发了他的兴趣。这些使用手机和电脑摄像头拍摄的低像素图片能通过因特网迅速发送到其它手机和电脑上。大人将此视为电信公司让人掏钱的促销伎俩，然而青少年们却把它看作与同龄人和外界直接沟通的新方式而欣然接受。

安达尔在他的作品中运用摄影来拷问媒介政治，以及它如何操控和影响我们的文化。“少作”是来自新媒体世界的年轻人的声音，在这里，人人都是艺术家，一切想象都是真实。

Exhibition:      JUVENILIA - CONSTRUCTING A SOUL IN CAPITALIST SOCIETIES
13 MONTHS IN THE YEAR OF THE DOG

Artists:      Ole John Aandal
              Li Yu & Liu Bo

Curators:        Andreas Rishovd, Su Wenxiang
Opening:     2009/6/13  17:00
Dates:           2009/6/13 – 7/12
Address：  Iberia Center for Contemporary Artt
E06, 798 Art Dist, 4 Jiuxianqiao Rd., Chaoyang Dist, Beijing, China
Director:     Xia Jifeng
Producer:    Gao Ping
Organizer:   Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Porsgrunn Art Society

Exhibition Brief:

Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Porsgrunn Art Society from Norway proudly invite you to our joint project, which is comprised of two exhibitions: JUVENILIA – CONSTRUCTING A SOUL IN CAPITALIST SOCIETIES featuring Norwegian artist Ole John Aandal, and 13 MONTH IN THE YEAR OF THE DOG showcasing the Chinese artist duo Li Yu & Liu Bo.

Iberia Center for Contemporary Art has taken the expansion of a close and effective working relationship with art organizations worldwide as its basic principle and an important orientation, to introduce westerm contemporary art to China and to present young Chinese contemporary artists to Europe or the West at large. Hopefully, the Center will grow into a platform supporting and facilitating the mutual exchange and communication between art worlds of the East and the West. Perhaps, the present parallel exhibitions will serve as a real opportunity for the audience to discover how artists employ the same media of photography to present differences or similarities rooted in different geographic spaces.

“13 Months in the Year of the Dog”

“13 Months in the Year of the Dog” by Li Yu and Liu Bo, both from Wuhan city, is an ongoing photographic series, inspired by social reportages from several local big newspapers. In their work, Yu and Bo observe reality, interpreting it via the media itself and in a movie like staged photographic fashion, not very unlike scenes from soap operas.

The artists started their collaboration back in 1998, based on Bo`s thoughts around harm and violence, and representation of violence in art history. This was then combined with Yu`s interest for news stories from everyday life as basis for artistic fabrication. Their reproduction of news stories is a humane way of defeating press media, through postcard like and beautiful sceneries, depicting glimpses of life, death, hate, murder and insanity, revenge, justice and violence, social change and the loss of religion.

Juvenilia - Constructing a Soul in Capitalist Societies

Market liberalism allows global companies to change the way we think and feel by the use of glossy photography and visual rhetoric in news media and advertising campaigns. Worrying about the sheer noise created by this image bombardment, and its effect on adolescence in the early stages of forming their identities, Ole John Aandal was intrigued by the new phenomenon MMS; these low-resolution photographs taken with cameras in cell phones or computers, easily distributed to other phones or computers throughout the Internet. As adults tended to dismiss it as another marketing trick by the telephone companies to wring our pockets, teenagers have embraced it as a new and immediate way of communicating with their peers and the world at large.

In his works, Aandal uses photography to question the politics of the medium and how it shapes and charges our culture. Juvenilia is the voice of teenagers in a new media world where everybody is an artist and everything you can imagine is real.