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瑞纳斯·凡·德·维尔德 | 殖民地

Rinus Van de Velde | The Colony

2019.03.20

15:00 媒体签到 | Media Reception

15:30 新闻发布会 | Press Conference

16:30 开幕酒会 | Opening Reception

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瑞纳斯·凡·德·维尔德 (生于1983年，现生活工作在安特卫普) 是比利时当代艺术界的领军人物，其创作围绕虚幻与真实间层叠穿插的矛盾展开。金杜艺术中心将在京举办他的亚洲首次个展，展览中凡·德·维尔德挑选了13幅大型纸本炭笔绘画及彩色抽象作品，旨在致敬几位20世纪的重要绘画艺术家。

艺术家用一种放松与精准兼备的绘画手法，描绘了艾萨克·韦斯故事的下集（故事的上集部分曾在荷兰海牙现代博物馆中展出）。艾萨克是他虚构的另外一个自我，掌管着一个艺术家的“殖民地”。这个“殖民地”的公民，都是二十世纪的大牌艺术家，包括赛·托姆布雷、琼·米切尔和巴勃罗·毕加索。在此系列中，我们可以看到曾经的乌托邦式的殖民地计划，是如何演变成真正的独裁统治，并逐渐分崩离析的故事。

在过去的几年中，凡·德·维尔德的创作集中显示于一批大型的叙事性炭笔素描，但其实在这批素描的身后，（比如包括在其中的纸板绘画，借鉴了艺术史和由艺术家“另一个自我”创作出来的作品），还有更大量的创作成果。艺术家在这些大量的创作中结合摆拍和现成的摄影、无观众的行为艺术、戏剧布景、电影叙事技术、装置、绘画、雕塑等元素。所有这些元素建构了一个完全不同的世界，同时也记录了大部分发生在工作室中的真实工作过程。

在他的绘画和叙事性的题材中，文本和图像作为虚构（艺术家）传记的起点，凡·德·维尔德并没有在其中折射个人，而是更广泛地实验现代与当代艺术间的不同可能性。如此以来，他多样的艺术角色得以来回重置：不同于那些在工作室中选择明确的艺术形式和材料参数创作的“真实”艺术家，他的另一个自我，穿梭在纷繁的未认定的（艺术）状态中。就像没有原型的镜像，艺术家的两个“我”相互塑造了对方。类似的矛盾关系也出现在艺术家的工作空间和其所绘的世界之间：一方面，工作室是实际的实验室，在此之中，所有创作的可能性都引导艺术家去实验；另一方面，绘画中虚构的场景也强调了一切源于此的创作来源。

开幕式当日会有一位由瑞纳斯推荐的演员，届时他将带着面具扮演成艺术家本人，与媒体互动发言并参与开幕之夜的晚宴活动。

Rinus Van de Velde (born in 1983, lives and works in Antwerp) is a leading figure on the Belgian contemporary art scene. His work revolves around the tension between fiction and reality. For his first solo exhibition in Asia held at KWM artcenter Beijing, Van de Velde has selected several large charcoal drawings on paper and colourful abstract works to reference major painters of the twentieth century.、

Using a loose but virtuoso drawing style, he tells the second part of the story of Isaac Weiss (the first part was shown earlier at The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague), a fictive alter ego who runs an artists’ colony. Members of the artists’ colony are big-name artists of the twentieth century, including Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell and Pablo Picasso. In this series we see the once utopian project of the colony turn into a real dictatorship and gradually fall apart.

Over the course of the last years, Van de Velde has developed a practice that principally results in monumental, narrative charcoal drawings, but behind which lies a much broader production (of, amongst others, cardboard paintings referencing art history or works produced by alter egos of the artist). Van de Velde combines found and staged photography, performances without spectators, theatrical sets, cinematic narrative techniques, installations, paintings, sculptures and so on. All these elements depict a completely different world, yet also document a very real working process that takes place mainly in the studio.

On his drawings and the narrative texts that go along with them, text and image function as a starting point for a fictional (artist) biography in which Van de Velde does not correspond to himself, but rather tests the different possibilities of modern and contemporary art. This leads to a productive doubling of his artistic persona: opposed to the "real" artist who chooses to work with well-defined artistic and material parameters in his studio, there is the alter ego who travels across all sorts of (artistic) positions without ever fully identifying with them. Like mirror images without an original, both artists produce each other. A similar tension can be found between the artist's work space and the world-of-the-drawing: on the one hand, the studio is the actual laboratory where the possibilities that lead the artist are tested; on the other, the fictional scenes in the drawings emphasize their roots in studio experimentation.

An actor hired by Rinus is playing the artist and will give a speech on the opening night. He will communicate with the media and participate in events on the opening night dressed up as Rinus and wearing a Rinus mask.

瑞纳斯·凡·德·维尔德于1983年出生于比利时鲁汶。重要个展包括“我是夜之夜”，德国埃尔兰根艺术宫 （2018年）；“瑞纳斯·凡·德·维尔德”，荷兰海牙现代博物馆（2016年）；“Donogoo Tonka”比利时根特市立当代美术馆（2016年）；巴西圣保艺术馆（2015年）；西班牙马拉加当代美术馆（2013年）。此外，瑞纳斯·凡·德·维尔德还曾参与过以下群展：英国海沃德画廊（2018-2019年）、瑞士卢塞恩美术馆（2018年）、德国盖尔森基兴美术馆（2018年）和中国中央美术学院美术馆（2014年）。

Rinus Van de Velde was born in Leuven, Belgium in 1983. Solo shows include Now I am the night of nights, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany (2018); Rinus Van de Velde, Gemeentemuseum, The Netherlands (2016); Donogoo Tonka, SMAK Ghent, Belgium (2016); Kunsthalle Sao Paolo, Brazil (2015); and CAC Malaga, Spain (2013). Furthermore Rinus van de Velde took part in group exhibitions curated by the Hayward Gallery, UK (2018-2019); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2018); Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Germany (2018); and CAFA Art Museum Beijing, China (2014).