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présentation - 展览介绍 :
Curator: Chen Guangjun
Modern art creation cannot be separated from various kinds of problems of current concern. This series of images named “Food Variation” is the reflection on the food safety issue that has currently aroused the public’s concern.
These fruits, vegetables, eggs, and meat that are commonly seen in our daily life should have composed our basic daily food, but instead they have lead to a series of social problems.
Instead of the most direct realistic recording method, “Food Variation” reveals the dialectical relationship between ideal and reality, the beautiful and the ugly from another perspective described by the artist as “variation method”. Shooting by the self-made super-large picture camera, directly exposing the color silver halide photographic paper, and presenting by color negative, he acquired this series of work with strong color impact. The food in the artist’s photos disturbs our knowledge of the original color and texture of food, making it look like the complicated and unrecognizable pictures for examining color blindness.
Cheng Yuyang’s image attempt has thrown us a question: is it enough to have the outlines for identifying the truth of things if we leave out their intrinsic quality? The pictures are colorful, yet they are disturbing indeed. Our mind turns worried and uneasy when it cannot restore them as they are in our memory. Maybe the most revealing part is the injectors in the middle of the pictures that are warning people against the reality behind the surface.
策展人: 陈光俊
当代艺术创作离不开当下所关注的各种问题。这组名为《食品变奏》的影像就是出于对当下民众所关心的食品安全问题进行的反思。
这些日常中司空见惯的熟悉的瓜果蔬菜蛋禽肉类，这些本应构成我们每日所需的基本食品，如今它却引发了一系列社会问题。
作品《食品变奏》并非采用了最直观的写实记录手法，而是从另一个角度去揭示理想与现实，美丽与丑陋的辩证关系，艺术家称之为“变奏法”。通过自制的超大画幅相机进行彩色银盐相纸直接曝光拍摄，并以彩色负像的形式呈现，他得到了这组具有强烈色彩冲击力的作品。艺术家拍摄的食品，扰乱了我们对于食品本身色彩质感的认知，使之看上去如同色盲检查图册中那些纷繁复杂难以辨析的图案一般。
程玉杨的影像尝试抛给了我们一个问题：当抛开了本质，是否仅凭这些轮廓就能辨析出事物的真实？画面中的色彩是缤纷鲜艳的，确又是着实令人不安的，我们的大脑在当无法对其做出依照记忆中的样子还原时便会变得忧虑和不安。也许最能一目了然的莫过于那些置于画面中心的针管，警示着人们表面背后的真相。
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