L-Art Gallery invite curator Lu Mingjun as the academic support in the last exhibition of L-Art Gallery 2014. This exhibition has artists of: Ge Yan, Gong Jian, Ji Lei, Lin Ke, Lu Pingyuan, Wang Sishun, Yu Ji and Zhang Zhaoying. Artworks include painting, video and other categorizes.
Explanatory Notes
By Lu Mingjun
This is not a boring exhibition, but an exhibition about “boredom”.
In the beginning of last century, the “boredom” that had repeatedly appeared under Lu Xu’s pen heralded a massive revolution. One hundred years later, Slavoj Zizek (1949- ) also believes boredom is the beginning of each real action. He said, “There would be no creation without boredom. If you are not bored, that means you are stupidly enjoying your current situation. It is boredom that opens new career space.”
Boredom is a potential. It will not become its own prison, neither will it hastily march forward. It may be a mechanic repetition or takes the form of a nihilist “vulgarity”. All the elegant and handsome intellectual gestures and the retroactive performances by the losers and rascals seem to be a little cheap here. Boredom refuses to take on any concrete social or political function. It is never a personal aesthetic mood that resists changes. It has no content or aim. Doubt, vapidity, dejection, trance and “callousness”-the almost “naked” life forms like those constitute its soundless speech and vitality.
Now, these interesting skins of pictures and dialogical techniques are a symptom of boredom as well as an omen for individual action. In other words, it itself means a kind of action.
Duration: 20th December, 2014 – 30th January, 2015
Venue: L-Art Gallery
Curator: Lu Mingjun
Artists:
Ge Yan, Gong Jian, Ji Lei, Liao Guohe, Lin Ke, Lu Pingyuan, Wang Sishun, Yu Ji, Zhang Zhaoying
Opening: 3:30PM-6PM, Saturday, 20th December, 2014
Academic Dialogue:
Intelligence, Boredom and Energy: Contemporary Painting
Host: Lu Mingjun
Participants: Gong Jian, Ji Lei, Liao Guohe
Time: 14:00PM-15:30PM, Saturday, 20th December, 2014
Venue: L-Art Gallery
余极 Yu Ji, “绝对是 Abso-fuckin-lutley”, 40cm×50cm, 纸本丙烯 Acrylic on paper, 2014年11月30日 11.30, 2014
王思顺 Wang Sisun , “欲望又n分之一 Desire And One of N points”, 6×8×2cm, 装置、行为、录像 Installation, performance, video, 2012
葛彦 Ge Yan, “序曲 Prelude”, 130cm×200cm, 布面油画 Oil on Canvas, 2013
林科 Lin Ke, “对不起Derek Paul Boyle先生 I’m sorry Derek Paul Boyle”, 3′39″, 数码影像 Digital Video, 2014
张钊瀛 Zhao zhaoying, “回旋曲 Rondo”, 120cm×160cm, 布面油画 Oil on Canvas,2014
陆平原 Lu Pingyuan, “冯小青 Feng Xiaoqing “, 现场表演、录像 Live Performance,Video, 2014
