Vanguard画廊群展“混沌与不思议”正展出陈兴业、代占坤、张文智三位艺术家的潜心创作。近期我们将一一介绍他们的艺术实践与创作，本期重点介绍艺术家代占坤的相关作品。展览将持续至3月9日，欢迎大家前来观展。
The exhibition “An Unlikely Menagerie And The Resulting Chaos” at Vanguard Gallery presents a curated selection of artworks by Chen Xingye, Dai Zhankun and Zhang Wenzhi. In the upcoming series of features, in addition to this post spotlighting Dai Zhankun's work, Vanguard Gallery will delve into individual art practice and creations of each participating artist. The exhibition will be on view until March 9, we warmly welcome you to visit before the show ends.
《鳄鱼盛宴》
Dragon Feast
钛合金、铝、黄铜、木头
Titanium, aluminum, brass, wood
75 x 59.5 x 105.5 cm | 2023
代占坤
Dai Zhankun
代占坤的“屠龙”系列以出人意料的素材构筑起有永恒意味的纪念碑。这些带有灰暗金属光泽和冷酷工业感的材料是真实的导弹残骸，在艺术家的重构下获得了“铸剑为犁”的新生。代占坤凭借大胆并时而荒诞的观念，将真实世界的毁灭者转变为古典英雄主义传说的化身，或者充满隐喻和矫正性的装置，以独特的姿态介入有关武力和权力的话语竞逐中去。
Dai Zhankun's "Dragon Slaying" series constructs monuments with unexpected materials, imbuing them with a sense of eternity. These materials, with their dark metallic sheen and cold industrial feel, are actual missile wreckage that, under the artist's reconstruction, gains a new life as "swords to plowshares." With bold concepts and occasional absurdity, Dai Zhankun transforms real-world weapons into embodiments of classical heroism or installations full of metaphor and corrective intent, intervening in the discourse competition regarding force and power in a unique manner.
《24235》
铼合金、铝、铜
Rhenium alloys, aluminum, copper
140 x 40 x 50 cm｜2023
局部
“寻找”与“意外”是代占坤的创作根源。他使用捡到的物件进行创作，捕捉日常生活的细微痕迹，譬如飞机云、光线、玻璃碎片。关注日常奇观并非稀有的角度，在代占坤看来，现实世界图像的获得与数字化场景中截屏的行为存在某种契合， 并试图对其进行一连串追问。真相可被重新定义， 虚拟与现实正大肆相互入侵。他擅长运用单纯的画面和装置引导观众进入错综复杂的层次中，对武力、权力、身份等社会问题的关注在表面不可见而背后暗涌。
"Searching" and "accident" are the roots of Dai Zhankun's creation. In his view, the acquisition of real-world images has a certain fit with the act of taking screenshots in digital scenes, and he tried to ask a series of questions about it. The truth can be redefined, and the virtual and the real are invading each other. He is good at using simple pictures and installations to guide the audience into intricate layers, and his attention to social issues such as force, power, and identity is invisible on the surface and hidden behind.
《闪光烛台》
Illuminator
铜、铝、发光元件
Copper, Aluminum, Light Emitting Components
160 x 40 x 40 cm｜2023
早期作品 EARLIER WORKS
《有关胡萝卜的童话》
Fairy Tale of Carrots
亚克力、铝合金、显示屏、滑台电机、胡萝卜模型
尺寸可变｜2021
《禁止想象》
No Imagination
铜、铝、电机、显示器、主机、监控摄像头
尺寸可变｜2021
《快速屠龙装备》
Fast Dragon Slaying Gear
铝、铜、切割锯、手套、头盔
2023
《快速屠龙装备》的主要灵感来源是纽约联合国大楼外，前苏联雕塑家为了纪念“中导条约”用当时美苏双方销毁的导弹碎片制作而成的“圣乔治屠龙”雕像。如果没有被做成雕像，这些导弹残骸可能将会成为废料，融成铝液重新铸成我们日常生活中的铝制品。艺术家试图重新演绎这座雕像，他将龙放在铝制祭坛之上，并且根据当时销毁导弹的场景为勇者们准备了丰富的宝物和装备让勇者们可以一次又一次不断去屠龙。而在这样的一个英雄主义的故事里，艺术家产生了一种错觉，那就是拥有无比强大的战斗力，但是又愿意满足人类私欲的恶龙似乎也是神圣的，而献祭恶龙究竟会得到什么?这个故事里并没有给出答案。
The main source of inspiration for "Fast Dragon Slaying Gear" is the statue of “St.George slaying the Dragon”, made by former Soviet sculptors outside the United Nations building in New York to commemorate the “Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty” from missile fragments destroyed by both the United States and the Soviet Union at that time. If these pieces are not made into statues, the missile debris will probably become scrap, melted into liquid aluminum and re-cast into the aluminum products of our daily life.
The artist tried to recreate the statue. He placed the dragon on an aluminum altar, and based on the scenes of the US army destroying missiles, he prepared a wealth of treasures and equipment for the brave men to slay the dragon again and again. In such a heroic story, the artist has an illusion, that is, the dragon with extremely powerful combat power, but willing to satisfy human desires seems to be sacred, and what will be gained by sacrificing the dragon? There is no answer in this story.
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