李剛的新方向

　　2008年4月的北京，在北京的798紅門畫廊將有一個創(chuàng)新性的展覽，李剛的展覽在于通過以前從未探索過的方向來重新改造他自身。

　　名為黑色燈光的展覽包含的作品不僅是探索攝影這種藝術形式，它也促進了超越圖象的媒介并代表了事件的領域、可能性和結(jié)果。

　　李剛作品的典型特性已經(jīng)超越了他這一代的“藝術敏感性”并且影響了進程的可能性。表面上無所束縛-揭示了物質(zhì)性的本質(zhì)，無論他使用的是何種媒介。

　　在黑色燈光中李剛通過圖片的互動、媒介和繪畫把概念和過程的結(jié)構(gòu)結(jié)合在一起。那些作品涉及到了這個世界-內(nèi)部和景觀，但是要多余所展示的。他們孤單的靜止著所涉及到的空無要大于他們自身-材料、表面和形式。

　　這個展覽將跟隨在維也納和巴倫西納的他的兩個新住處，在他創(chuàng)作作品的尋求中李剛探索了兩個新的方向，對于操縱材料的爭斗的表達當允許作品有它自身的生命。在此引述李剛的話：讓上帝決定他在哪點中止-做為藝術家的引領之路。

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　　Li Gang’s new directions

　　BEIJING, April 2008 – In an innovative exhibition at 798 / Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, Li Gang shows that he can always reinvent himself through previously unexplored directions.

　　Titled Black Light, the exhibition contains work which not only explores the medium of photography, it pushes the medium beyond the pictorial and representational into the realm of accident, chance and event.

　　The characteristic feature of Li Gang’s work over a generation has been the interaction of his ‘a(chǎn)rtistic sensibility’ and the chance effect of process - seemingly uncontrolled - to reveal the essence of materiality in whatever media he works.

　　In Black Light Li Gang brings this conceptual and structural process together through the interaction of photography, metal casting and painting. These works have reference to the world – interiors and landscapes – but more than anything else, they stand alone as referencing nothing more than what they are – material, surface and form.

　　The exhibition will follow his two recent residencies in Vienna (2007) and Valencia (2008) in which Li Gang explored new directions in his quest to create work which is at once an expression of his struggle to manipulate material while allowing the work to have a life of its own. In Li Gang’s words - for ‘God to determine the point at which he stops’ - as the hand of the artist.