王庆松个展：三影像
展览地点：北京艺门画廊 北京朝阳区崔各庄乡草场地村241号
开幕酒会：2010年01月23日 周六下午 2 - 6 点
展览时间：2010年01月23日 - 04月12日
我们很高兴推出王庆松的三件最新视频作品。这是继王庆松在美国洛杉矶的海默博物馆举办首个个展（策展人是加州大学洛杉矶分校的海默项目总监詹姆斯•伊雷恩(James Elaine)，2009年3月24日-6月14日）后，第一次在中国展出这三件作品。
在先锋艺术家当中，王庆松是一个领头的 -- 同时也是极具影响力的人物。他的作品批判了中国社会的急剧转型，批判了那些由于人们过度相信“建设现代化！”、“建设文明社会！”这类意义被扭曲的口号而接受的理所当然的变化。
王庆松原本是一个画家，如今却在戏剧舞台、数码摄影、大型装置项目和单频道视频（使用的是35毫米胶片和数码定格技术）之间挥洒自如。他此次在北京艺门画廊展出的三件视频新作都意在透过社会和环境的表面变化去揭露其背后隐藏的东西。在这些作品中，王庆松通过引人注目却相互之间似乎毫无关联的主题，创造出令人难以忘怀的声音和视觉效果来抓住观众的注意力。
这三件视频作品的一个共同特点在于仅通过身体或物质变形的一个单频道形象而引发一种在态度和观念上的微妙变化。在观看的过程中，我们发现，那些曾经让我们感到震惊和不安的东西不再能够掀起一丝的波澜。我们的生活空间和周围环境当中充满了变化，视觉和听觉上的刺激一刻不曾停歇（不管是好的还是坏的），正是这些造就了当代的都市生活。因此，王庆松指出，我们的精神和物质世界都受到了影响。
我们将用十周的时间同时展出这三部视频作品，让观众有充足的时间往返于各个展室之间，好好欣赏这三件以各自特色反映王庆松日益拓展的创作空间的截然不同的作品。
“Three Video Projects”, Wang Qingsong’s solo exhibit
Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
23 Jan – 12 Apr, 2010
Wang Qingsong / 123456 chops / Single – channel video (DV camera) / 2008 / 4 min
Opening Reception for Chinese artist Wang Qingsong’s Solo Exhibit at Pékin Fine Arts:
Jan 23, 2010, from 2 to 6 pm. ALL WELCOME!
Pékin Fine Arts is pleased to host the China premier of Wang Qingsong’s three latest video works, following his first solo exhibition in a United States museum, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, (March 24 – June 14, 2009 and curated by UCLA Hammer Projects director Jaime Elaine).
Wang Qingsong is a leading – and influential - figure in the generation of pioneering artists whose work critiques the rapid-fire transformation of Chinese society, changes all to often justified by over-reliance on ill-defined slogans imploring all to “Modernize!” and to “Build A More Civilized Society!”.
Originally trained as a painter, today Qingsong moves freely between theatrically staged digital photography, large-scale installation projects; and single-channel video, (using 35 mm film and digital stop-motion techniques). The new video works Qingsong presents today at Pekin Fine Arts all look beyond obvious societal and environmental changes, to uncover what lies beneath. In these latest art works, Qingsong uses arresting and seemingly unrelated subject matter, to grab the viewers’ attention, in impossible-to-forget sound and visual imagery.
The common denominator in all three videos is a subtle shift in attitude and perception invoked relying solely on one single channel image of physical or material transformation. Within the course of viewing, we realize that things that once shocked or disturbed us no longer cause a stir. Contemporary urban life is often characterized by frequent changes in one’s living space and environment, and the constant presence - whether good or bad - of excessive visual and sound stimuli. Inevitably, Qingsong posits, our spiritual as well as material worlds’ are affected.
Over the next ten weeks, we will present the three new video works simultaneously, giving audiences ample opportunity to move freely from room to room enjoying these three entirely different presentations of Qingsong’s ever-broadening oeuvre, in their own personal way.
