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Zuo Jing Text
要了解颜磊的作品，必须将他的艺术实践置于中国当代艺术30年 的历史发展的语境中。颜磊所构建的作品世界，从大的方面看，始终围绕着艺术体制本身，围绕着艺术家与这个体制所建立起来的各种复杂的关系，这些关系构成了 颜磊作品的核心。有意思的是，颜磊被人视为“寻衅者”的身份其实是一种对他的极大的误解。事实上，颜磊始终抱以一种诚实的态度，在试探这个脆弱的艺术体制 是如何建立在虚拟的基础之上的同时，他本人也深陷其中并幸运地获得了艺术界所馈赠的“特权”。

Extra这个展览，仍是以“绘画”的方式呈现。颜磊坚持认为自己选取的图像有一种内在的结构性：比如戈雅之于马德里，美元之于买卖，头骨之于藏品，尼斯风景之于一场获赠的旅行等等 。这实际上只是一个“命名”的游戏，它与布尔迪厄所说的“任意必然性”相关。也就是说，这个行为仍然是利用了艺术界中的声誉与信仰机制，突显了艺术机制与艺术实践的非理性之间合谋而又对抗的张力关系。

而Extra这个词的灵感来自于中国移动的一种服务功能，即在短信未送或送达提示之外，附赠的一条知识短语。这就使我们理解了在这批作品中，那些并无逻辑关系的百科常识是如何“合理”地出现在每个画面上的。





左靖
曾发表于颜磊EXTRA展览画册，2010年

左靖

1970年11月生。策展人。《汉品》主编、《今日先锋》执行主编。2002年参与创办中国第一个三年展——中国艺术三年展（现更名为南京三年展）；2006年底创办《当代艺术与投资》杂志；2008年和张亚璇创办“中国独立影像档案馆”；2011年和张献民发起“艺术空间独立电影放映联盟”；2011年和欧宁发起碧山共同体计划，并策划“2010碧山丰年祭”。他在北京、南京、广州等地策划过很多当代艺术和独立电影展览，他还应邀在奥地利、西班牙、智利、日本、巴西和挪威的一些艺术中心和博物馆策划展览和项目。他曾担任南视觉美术馆（南京）执行馆长、伊比利亚当代艺术中心（北京）艺术总监。
 In order to understand Yan Lei’s work, you must put his art practice in the context of the 30 years of history of Chinese contemporary art. Yan Lei constructs his world of works from a larger point of view, from beginning to end, the art has always been revolved around the system itself, revolving around the artist and this system and between them establishing various complex relationships. These relationships make up the core of Yan Lei’s work. Yan Lei is identified by others as an “agitator”, while actually this is a great misunderstanding. In fact, Yan Lei has always held an honest attitude. As he probes how the vulnerable art system is established on a virtual basis, at the same time, he is also soaked in it and hasfortunately received a kind of “privilege” from the art circle.

The exhibition “Extra” will still be shown through the method of painting. Yan Lei himself insists on selecting images with a certain type of intrinsic structure, for example: Goya in Madrid, the trading of the U.S dollar, a collection of skulls, taking in the scenery of Nice while traveling, etc. This is simply just a “name” game, related to what Bourdieu called “arbitrary necessity”. That is, this behavior is still utilized in the art world’s reputation and belief system, highlighting not only the art system’s and practice’s irrational confrontation, but also the tension between the collusive relationships. In addition, the name “Extra” was inspired by one of China Mobile’s services. It will provide you with a short phrase of knowledge before each SMS is sent out. This brings us to understand how those Wikipedia phrases that have no logic relationship with the works “reasonably” appear on every picture.

Zuo Jing

*Yanlei EXTRA exhibition catalogue, 2010


Zuo Jing

Born in November, 1970, Curator. Editor of Chinese goods, executive editor of  Todays Pioneers. Participated in the founding of Chinas first Triennial, “The Triennial of Chinese Arts” (now known as Nanjing Triennial) in 2002; founder of Contemporary Art and Investment  magazine in the end of 2006; co-founded together with Zhang Yaxuan the “Chinese Independent Film Archive“ in 2008 and launched with Zhang Xianming  the “Indie Screening Alliance of Art Space“ in 2011, also in 2011, he initiated with Ou Ning the Bishan Community plan, and curated the “Bishan Harvestival 2010”. He has curated many contemporary art and independent film exhibitions in Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou and other places, he was also invited to curate exhibitions and projects in a number of art centers and museums in Austria, Spain, Chile, Japan, Brazil and Norway. He has served as the executive curator of RCM Art Museum (Nanjing), and artistic director of the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing).











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