I went to the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing 798 to participate in a photography interview. In the Q&A session, I asked the artists on the stage, "How do you view some weird, distorted, and jagged phenomena in photographic works. If you put it in the shooting of ordinary people, it may be defined as something grandstanding. And put it in the art exhibition area and gallery. People are willing to explore the meaning behind it, or believe that such works contain profound meanings, the phenomenon of defamiliarization becoming the language of photography.” The other party replied, “Plague, war, conflict, etc., contradiction rather than everydayness is that art is always different. It is the root of other existences. This is also a question that the history of photography has been exploring until now.” Regarding this, I hold different views. both directions. When the moment of truth comes, find it and record it. Appeal to words, music, visual arts, etc. One is that it is already in a high probability environment of great occurrence. Many wars and news documentary photography works are like this, such as [Afghan girl]
There is another kind of discovery and creation in everyday life, making greatness out of the ordinary itself. [Pear] That's it, you don't think it's a pear the first time you see it. You will feel that this is a small planet floating in the deep universe, glowing and breathing weakly and shallowly. Or something beyond the pear itself. The photographer captures the spirituality behind the object. The object itself does not matter whether it is spiritual or not, it is given by the artist. It's a gift to read in real life those moments that are as light as a feather and fleeting as the wind. The artist uses his own works to record and express, the eternal
What is art? With a signed ceramic urinal, Duchamp informed the world that art is not just painting and sculpture, but anything that the artist creates and borrows. A short film, an Andalusian dog, living contemporary art. During the entire viewing process, I felt like a guinea pig trying my own way, as if electrodes were placed on the nerves, directly acting on the senses. Especially in the scene where the eyeball is cut with a razor, it is easy to cause extremely uneasy mental consumption in the viewer's heart. Just like many works of "unintelligible, inexplicable, or something", we are accustomed to instinctively resisting beyond our own cognition. something out of range. Contemporary art tries to break the shackles of language and interpretation on art, and it directly makes you feel and participate in it. However, in the face of the social reality where perception is lacking and perception is meaningless, how to make one's spirit continue to grow. this is a problem. So for the general public, what else can art museums be other than the artificial landscape coordinates for taking pictures and punching cards in the circle of friends? Maybe when you stand in front of the original work and see the trend of each stroke of the painting, the priority of the brush strokes, whether the color is heavy makeup or light, and then think of the background of the story related to it, the author's thoughts when he writes the brush. , feel the charm of time and space in the mottled details. Next time when we appreciate contemporary art, let's not ask "is this painting good-looking or not?", because one of the meanings of contemporary art is to ask questions instead of throwing out answers. What to do, what is the purpose of doing it, and what is the innovative and enlightening significance of this idea? All you can do as an ordinary viewer is to give time and patience, stare for a few more minutes, calm down, and start a dialogue with tolerance and curiosity. Classics are the creation of time. In time, it has its own history, and some readers will add their own life to it. The classic is not very fashionable, the classic is quiet, once it is born, it no longer speaks. A classic awaits, it can only wait. It was silent at times, but it was not dead. It has to wait for a good reader to be resurrected: how good the reader is, how well it can be resurrected. Sometimes what you perceive as the depth of an artwork depends on your own perception of depth. Artistic expression is a path to self-expression, but how you find the path to express your inner self depends on how much you see. You see enough that it actually gives you enough expressions that you know how to better express what you can. And a high-quality gallery visit can serve as a way for you to broaden your path of expression. Improving the quality of personal life is inseparable from aesthetics, which is also the life welfare of Beishangguang people.
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