空想重置
RÊVERIE RESET
装置艺术,2016-2017

颜磊的艺术实践常常质询图像的文化相关性。他采用数字技术对照片进行分解,并最终以绘画行为来完成。艺术家不断质疑图像“再现”(representation)这个行为当中所隐含的相关性,同时强调绘画图像的过剩本质。颜磊的创造性过程也可被视为某种破坏(destructive)实践,它和观念主义十分相近,一层一层的观念被堆叠在视觉表达之上。这个行为将现实主义的再现缩减为抽象的单色。

《空想重置》是一个系统,它延续了颜磊将图像消解为概念的实践,并由此开展一个新的开拓性尝试。这件作品将呈现一个大型装置,其采用最新的计算机计算系统和网络技术,重申艺术家关于再现之人造性和图像之相关性的观点。


In his artistic practice, Yan Lei constantly inquires into the cultural relevance of the image. He applies digital techniques and decomposes photographs which eventually he paints. The artist recursively questions the relevance implicit in the act of representation, while emphasizing the superfluous nature of the painted image. One could refer to Yan Lei’s creative process as a destructive practice, one closer to conceptualism; layers of ideas superposed over visual expression, an action that reduces realistic representations into abstract monochromes.

Rêverie Reset is a system which takes Yan Lei’s practice of dissolving images into concepts to a new instance. A large scale installation which makes use of cutting edge computational systems and networking technologies in order to reaffirm the artist’s notion of the artificiality of representation and the irrelevance of the image.