Nature of Speed《瘋景》

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Nature of Speed

23 May - 22 June 2013

David Adamo
Alfred Boman
Lin Xue
Ni Youyu
Christopher Orr
Alexander Ruthner
Tsang Chui Mei
Xie Zhengli
Xue Feng
Yang Xinguang    

"Nature of Speed" is a group exhibition co-organised by London gallery Ibid. and Gallery EXIT, Paintings, anchored by sculptures that explore the natural media, will present a hyperbolised view of our contemporary environment as we are engulfed by the madness that ensues.

At the centre of the exhibition is a series of cedar wood beam works by David Adamo. In an almost performative process, the artist gouges and chops into the raw material, revealing the structures of pillars, plinths or totems. Adamo explores sculpture’s narrative possibilities, and the act of making as staged and choreographed activity is a constant theme throughout his works.

The surrounding canvases present a world of accelerated change and offers interpretations from the exhilarating to the outright eerie. Xue Feng’s paintings are a riot of flamboyant strokes depicting the vibrancy of Spring. His works shows in a rich manner our contemporary mindset towards nature and its politics of artificiality, framed in an articulated vocabulary of both Chinese and western painting traditions.
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《瘋景》 

2013年5月23日至6月22日

David Adamo
Alfred Boman
林穴
倪有魚
Christopher Orr
Alexander Ruthner
曾翠薇
謝正莉
薛峰
楊心廣

《瘋景》是由倫敦 Ibid. 和香港 Gallery EXIT 安全口畫廊合辦的群展。畫作和一批探究天然物料的雕塑將會引領大家用一種極緩慢的眼光去觀看瘋狂大自然如何快速地吞滅我們。

在展覽的中央是David Adamo的香柏木作品。出自表演的表達角度，藝術家把原始的物料挖掉和剁碎，從而顯出棟梁、圖騰和柱基的結構。Adamo探討利用雕塑去敘述的可能性，再者，如同經過編排和富表演性的創作過程更是作者重複探討的主題。

四周的畫作呈現著高速變化的世界，使人有愉快和奇異怪誕的感覺；那些薛峰奇幻、充滿瑰麗色彩的油畫展現春光的燦爛。在中西畫傳統的詞匯框架下，薛氏以誇大的手法展示了當代人類對於大自然以至其人工制造政治的思維。