在人类历史上，艺术家们的存在不可或缺，他们对这个世界的未知神秘极具敏感，他们所感知的世界极为个人化。当语言因为藩篱离现实尚远时，他们已能用各自的艺术形式来传递其殊出的感受。现代主义之后的我们对这个世界的认知不再停滞在“看起来像”的那个维度里，艺术家们通过他们所感受的物与自身的联系，实现其创作，阐述其与这个世界的距列。主体与客体、心理活动与智力、社会现实与个人情感等诸多因素被归纳并通过作品呈现。
展览项目“趴刻”由八个艺术家组成，除了梅林•杰姆斯(MerlinJames)在其意象的诗人般的世界里一直惬意地玩着视觉这个“漫长的游戏”。大类上我们可以认同伊萨贝拉•诺兰(IsabelNolan),里亚姆•杰里柯(LiamGillick),周力等在公共艺术和大型装置上已颇有建树且口碑甚佳;在抽象语言的范畴里肖恩•斯库利(SeanScully)、卡拉莫•伊内斯(CallumInnes)、周力、丽莲•托马斯寇(LillianneTomasko)、刘可等，一方面在相关艺术史叙述里已有稳据磐石者，或正明确自身所处位置;另一方面他们的语言又兀自独立各有所述极具个体魅力。这也正是这个展览值得期待与让人兴奋之处。“趴刻”缘起科林画廊艺术总监达沃•霍根(DarraghHogan)和我在广州的一次深度交流，在“趴刻”里，如达沃所述，期待这几个个性强烈鲜明的艺术家的齐聚实现一种新的力量与生长!
王野夫
2017年2月18日于广东
Postscript
Inthehistoryofmankind,theexistenceofartistsisindispensable,fortheyaresensitivetowardtheunknownmysteriousworld,whichtheyperceivewiththeirdistinctiveperception.Whenthebarriersoflanguagekeepusfarfromthereality,theyhavealreadyconveyedtheir
insightfulobservationwiththeirspecificartforms.Aftermodernismourcognitionoftheworldnolongerstaysatthedimensionof“lookslike”,throughtheobjectiveatmosphereanditsconnectionsartistspracticetheirarttoexpoundtheirrelationshipofthisworld:subjectandobject,mentalactivityandintelligence,socialrealityandindividualemotionsandsoon,manyfactorsaresummarizedandpresentedthroughtheirartworks.
Theexhibition“PARK”iscomposedbyeightartists,inadditiontoMerlinJameswhoishavingfuntoplaythe“Longgame”inhispoetryandimageryvisualworld,toacertainextent,almostwecanagreethatIsabelNolan,LiamGillickandZhouLihavebeenestablishedinthefieldofpublicartwiththeirlargeinstallationsandtheyhaveearnedtheirgoodreputationinthisfield.Inthecategoryofabstractlanguage,SeanScully,CallumInnes,ZhouLi,LillianneTomasko,LiuKe,etc.,ononehand,somehavealreadybeeninthemapofmodernarthistory,andsomehaveknownthepositionswheretheyare;ontheotherhandeachofthemhastheirpeculiarlanguageandtheiruniquecharm.Thisisexactlywhattheexhibitionisworthtoexpectto."PARK"originsfromadeeptalkofDarraghHogan(artdirectorofKerlingallery)andmeinGuangzhouintheyearof2016.In"PARK",asDarraghHoganhasstressed,toexpectthegrowthofafreshforcefromthesedistinctive
artistswhoareofstrongpersonalitieswouldbeexciting...
WangYefu
18February2017,Guangdong