中国美术学院毕业展接近尾声,在展览期间,感谢观展朋友们对我作品的关注与肯定,也因为毕业展的机缘结识不少优秀青年,甚为欣喜。
在《旋转中的硬币》这件作品阐释说明上我写的较为简单,即“世界各国的硬币依靠磁力设备在桌面上保持长时间旋转”。我之所以只在作品阐释上写了作品的客观描述,是想将作品想要表达的内容留给观众自己想象;但随着越来越多的观众和朋友向我提问,我不得不反复向观众和朋友讲解我的作品,当然,我也是在和观众、朋友相互交流中越发完善了我自己的作品阐释,直到今天,我认为这段阐释或许可以成文,遂即写出。
创作缘起
我在大学期间所学的专业是总体艺术,后因学校院系调整被归为实验艺术系。我的导师是邱志杰老师,在跟他学习的三年中,他先后带领我们工作室的同学去了不同的地方下乡,其中大三去了台湾,大四去了印度;在下乡期间我们的主要学习内容是田野调查与社会文化研究。在去这些地方的旅途中,我们开始重新认识这些地方,我们开始消除对这些地方的刻板印象,并用心观察眼前的“一草一木”。也正因为这种特殊的观察方式,我看世界的方式也变的不同,我开始对这个真实的世界充满好奇,我渐渐发现简单的事物并不简单,复杂的事物也并不复杂。也正因为如此,我在大学三年级起开始阅读世界各国的历史,我想知道世界为什么会是今天这个样子。
毕业创作开始前,我刚读完斯塔夫里阿诺斯撰写的《全球通史》,我就想着做一件基于世界历史创作的作品。今年4月初,我在整理自己图片资料时,找到自己曾在大三暑假期间设计过一个让硬币单独长时间旋转的方案,这个方案结合我近期的阅读经历,自然而然就把单独转一个硬币的想法扩展成转世界各国的硬币。
在我看来,每一个硬币就是一段历史。
作品想要表达什么?
我想表达我对这个真实世界的好奇心。
“好奇”这种情感是无法通过我个人主观描述进行表达的,但我能肯定好奇心对于男女老少来说都是一样的,它在任何人的心中应该都有一个通点的。因此我产生了一种想法:既然我无法表达“好奇”这种情感,那我就想尝试让他人产生“好奇”。
遂即我做了数百个磁力设备安置于桌面下,并依靠这种设备让世界各国的硬币在桌面上保持长时间旋转。
一个保持长时间旋转的硬币是很容易吸引人的,因为它反转了人们日常的生活经验。大部分观众在看见我作品的时候会好奇,会想知道这些硬币为什么会旋转;有的观众会忍不住用手碰一碰正在旋转硬币,有的观众会想把倒下的硬币给再次转起来,有的观众在看完作品说明后会把手悬置于桌面上空试图感受“磁力”,好奇心强的观众会蹲下身子掀开桌布探究其中的秘密;小朋友会对着硬币吹气,老人家会猫着腰凝视这些硬币,更多的朋友则会拿出手机拍小视频分享在朋友圈中。这些种种行为无一不是在表现观者的好奇心,我认为他们此刻对硬币的好奇心和我对世界的好奇心是一样的。
The graduation exhibition of China Academy of Art is drawing to a close. During the exhibition, I would like to thank my friends for their attention and affirmation of my works. I am very glad to meet many outstanding young people through the graduation exhibition.
In the explanation of the work "Rotating Coins", I wrote a relatively simple one, that is, "some coins of all countries in the world rely on magnetic equipment to keep rotating on the table for a long time". The reason why I only wrote the objective description of the work in the interpretation of the work is that I want to leave the content of the work to the audience's imagination; However, as more and more audiences and friends asked me questions, I had to explain my works to them repeatedly. Of course, I also improved my interpretation of my works in the communication with the audience and friends. Until today, I think this interpretation can be written and then written.
Creation of origin
I majored in general art in university, which was later classified as experimental Art department due to the adjustment of school departments. My tutor is Qiu Zhijie. During the three years of studying with him, he led our studio students to go to the countryside in different places successively, including Taiwan in the junior year and India in the senior year. During the period of going to the countryside, we mainly studied fieldwork and social and cultural research. As we travel to these places, we begin to rediscover them, we begin to remove stereotypes and observe the "trees and grass" in front of us. Because of this special way of observation, I see the world in a different way, and I begin to be curious about the real world. I gradually find that simple things are not simple, and complex things are not complicated. That is why I began to read the history of countries around the world in my third year of college. I wanted to know why the world is the way it is today.
Before my graduation project, I had just finished reading Stavrianos's "Universal History", and I wanted to do a work based on the history of the world. In early April this year, when I was sorting out my pictures, I found that I had designed a plan to rotate coins independently for a long time during the summer vacation of my junior year. This plan naturally expanded the idea of rotating coins independently into coins of all countries in the world based on my recent reading experience.
In my opinion, every coin is a piece of history.
What is the work trying to say?
I want to express my curiosity about the real world.
The emotion of "curiosity" cannot be expressed by my personal subjective description, but I am sure that curiosity is the same for men, women and children, and there should be a general point in everyone's heart. So I came up with the idea that since I couldn't express curiosity, I wanted to try to make others curious.
So I made hundreds of magnetic devices placed under the table, and rely on this device to keep the coins from all over the world on the table for a long time.
A coin that keeps spinning for a long time is easy to attract because it reverses people's everyday life experience. Most people, when they see my work, they're curious, they want to know why the coins are spinning; Some audience can not help but touch the coin that is rotating, some audience want to turn the fallen coin again, some audience will put their hands on the table after reading the work description to try to feel the "magnetic force", curious audience will crouch down to uncover the tablecloth to explore the secret; Children will blow on the coins, elderly people will crouch over the coins, and more friends will take out their mobile phones to shoot small videos to share in moments. All of these behaviors show the curiosity of the viewers, and I think their curiosity about coins is the same as my curiosity about the world.