[洛杉矶]重生：史国瑞个展

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重生：史国瑞个展
展期：2011年7月15日至9月2日
开幕：2011年7月15日 星期五 晚6:30 -8:30
地点：洛杉矶L&M画廊 - 加州威尼斯市威尼斯大道660号
网站：www.lmgallery.com

Shi Guorui: Rebirth
Duration: July 15th to September 2nd, 2011
Opening: Friday, 15 July 2011 6:30 - 8:30pm
L&M Arts, Los Angeles
660 Venice Boulevard Venice, CA 90291
Tel : +1.310.821.6400

2011年7月15日至9月2日，L&M画廊将非常荣幸地为艺术家史国瑞举办个展——“重生”，这是本馆首次展出他的独一无二的暗箱摄影作品。史国瑞是目前中国最著名的摄影家之一，他的作品常常在国际性美术馆和艺术机构展出，比如旧金山的德扬美术馆、洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆、加拿大皇家安大略博物馆、荷兰格罗宁根博物馆和北京的中国美术馆。此次展览是他在洛杉矶的第一次个展，而我们也非常高兴能够向世界展示他的作品。展览画册配有中国当代艺术领域的著名学者林似竹的评论文章，此画册也是首次完整地呈现了艺术家从2001年到2011年的暗箱影作品。

史国瑞1964年出生于中国，现生活工作于北京。1990年他得到了去南京师范大学美术系学习摄影的机会，并于1992年从那里毕业。1998年的一场交通事故改变了他的一生，现在回顾当时，正是那个灾难性的瞬间促使他决定完全投身于暗箱摄影的创作中去。暗箱拍摄能够捕捉一系列的瞬间而并非传统意义上的某一刻，并且能将一切转瞬即逝的细节从最终成像的作品中除去。史国瑞的超现实的暗箱摄影作品能够从主题中提炼出一种永恒的本质，而这种媒介本身就是艺术家对于自己人生与创作的思考的隐喻。

虽然史国瑞利用暗箱摄影技术拍出的作品是十分个人化的，但“重生”展览的主题却是他对一场不断扩展的当代对话的记录，这场对话涉及到日益演变的全球化社会关系。此次展览中展示了他新拍摄的一些美国和中国的都市空间，这些作品将美国经济霸权和全球化扩张同中国的飞速发展和建筑语言的权力化相对比，无论是自然、人还是现实空间，都体现了这种权力。通过这些作品，史国瑞暗指美国梦在美国的本来面貌以及它被传达和转译至中国之后的样子。每幅作品都是记录了中国某一特殊时期的现实冲突或历史时刻。在中国现代社会急速发展的背景下，在全球化社会日益复杂的语境中，史国瑞的作品考察了我们当下的文化现象、政治以及经济权力。

Shi Guorui (b. 1964, Shanxi Province) has mastered the camera obscura technique and is one of China’s foremost photographers. The surreal vision of his distinctive obscura images removes all activity from the image extracting the essence of his subjects, mainly landscapes and monuments, which are also sites of conflict and cultural significance. In recent years, he has traveled extensively between the US and China to document the sites of urban development and monuments that symbolize cultural, political and economic authority. His works collectively document a contemporary dialogue about the varied influences on China’s rapidly evolving global society.

L&M Arts is proud to present Rebirth, July 15 to September 2, our first exhibition of unique camera obscura photographs by Shi Guorui. Shi is one of China’s foremost photographers and his work is frequently exhibited in international museums and institutions, including The de Young Museum, San Francisco; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Royal Ontario Museum, Canada; Groninger Museum, The Netherlands; and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. This is Shi’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and we are honored to represent him internationally. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with an essay by Britta Erickson, noted scholar and lecturer in the field of contemporary Chinese art. It is the first complete monograph of the artist’s camera obscura works from 2001 through 2011.

Shi was born in China in 1964 and currently lives and works in Beijing. In 1990, Shi was given the opportunity to study fine arts at Nanjing Normal University.  In 1992, he graduated from the Photography department and earnestly began his career as an artist. In 1998, Shi experienced a life-changing accident, a moment, in retrospect, that propelled him to exclusively employ the camera obscura technique. Camera obscura captures a series of moments, rather than just an instant, and removes all ephemeral activity from the resulting image. The surreal vision of Shi’s camera obscura photographs distills the enduring essence of his subjects; the medium itself is a metaphor for the artist’s own outlook on life and his work. .

While Shi’s use of the camera obscura is deeply personal, Rebirth’s subject matter documents an expansive contemporary dialogue about the relationships of an evolving global society. The current show highlights a new collection of photographs of urban sites in the US and China that contrasts themes of American economic hegemony and globalization with China’s aspiring development and the architectural language of power, whether over nature, man, or physical space. With these works, Shi alludes to the American Dream as it exists in America and as it is conveyed and interpreted in China.  Each image is also documented in a specific period of current conflict or historic significance. Against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving modern society in China and within the context of an increasingly complex global community, Shi’s works visually examine the structures that symbolize cultural, political and economicauthority in our present time.

把人类的一些活动放在一个更长远，更扩大的时空之中，其实很短暂、灰暗、脆弱……

时间与空间是神圣的存在。我其实一直关注的是影响人类社会发展、生活进程的事物，针孔暗箱（Camera Obscura) 这种古老的原始成像方式，是能够契合我要陈述和表达的东西，在我的影像中，当下现实中似乎真实的物质存在因其幻化不定而消解隐遁，再比如某些地标建筑，也许干预和影响了某个时代和其他的存在。

通过讲述时间和空间的关系，把它们放在不断运动着的历史、现实与未来的物质世界之中，我们提问、反观和思考……

史国瑞

Think about human activity in the long-term, in infinite space and time; indeed how brief, bleak, and fragile it all is…

Time and space are sacred realities. I am continually intrigued by the things that influence people and society to develop—by what allows life to go on. Camera obscura, this primitive image making method, is a fitting way for me to express myself and depict my version of reality. In my images, the material existence of an immediate reality seem to be real, yet fade out and disappear with an illusory quality—just as a landmark building may outlive our time and influence a future existence.

By means of depicting the connection of time and space, placing them in a constantly restless material world of history, reality and future, we question, reflect, and meditate…

Shi Guorui

【关于L&M画廊】
自2004年开幕以来，L&M画廊已成为全球首屈一指的现代及当代艺术画廊，无论在初级还是次级市场中均相当活跃。在前高盛集团合伙人劳勃•慕钦以及前纽约佳士得私人销售总监多明尼克•李维的经验及热情推动下，L&M画廊提供国际上诸多艺术家最重要的作品，包括巴布罗•毕加索、安迪•沃荷、威廉•德•库宁、马克•罗斯柯、亨利•马蒂斯、贾斯柏•约翰斯、唐纳•贾德、露易丝•布尔乔亚、卢西恩•佛洛伊德、格哈德•里希特、赛•汤伯利、杰夫•昆斯、莱莎•路、大卫•汉默以及汤玛斯•豪斯雅戈。L&M专为这些先驱艺术家的作品举办深度研究及专业策划展览，并发行学术性的出版品，为业界立下新的标杆。
画廊位于洛杉矶的分廊于2010年9月开幕，同时举办的保罗•麦卡锡个展包括因地制宜的室内及室外装置作品，备受各界好评。除了为各式媒体及艺术类型举办美术馆级的展览之外，画廊也为世上知名的私人收藏家提供个人化的艺术顾问服务。劳勃•慕钦及多明尼克•李维均专长为客户审慎取得稀有而高品质的艺术品，包括在拍卖会上代理竞拍。

L&M画廊定期参与大型国际艺术博览会展出，包括巴塞尔艺术博览会、迈阿密巴塞尔艺术博览会、巴黎当代艺术博览会、巴黎古董双年展和马斯垂克艺术博览会。L&M画廊很荣幸能够获得约瑟夫•柯内尔以及伊夫•克莱因遗作的北美代理权。 

ABOUT L&M Arts Gallery

Since opening its doors in 2004, L&M Arts has been one of the leading modern and contemporary art galleries in the world, active in both the primary and secondary markets. Combining the experience and interests of Robert Mnuchin, former Partner at Goldman Sachs and Dominique Levy, former Director of Private Sales at Christie’s New York, L&M Arts offers some of the most important works by a wide-ranging, international group of artists including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Louise Bourgeois, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Jeff Koons, Liza Lou, David Hammons, and Thomas Houseago. L&M Arts has set the standard for historically-researched and expertly curated exhibitions and scholarly publications devoted to the work of these pioneering artists.
The gallery opened its Los Angeles branch in September 2010, with a critically-acclaimed exhibition of both indoor and outdoor site-specific installations by Paul McCarthy. In addition to being home to museum-quality exhibitions across a variety of media and genres, the gallery offers personalized art advisory services to distinguished private collectors around the world. L&M Arts is proud to represent the estates of Yves Klein and Joseph Cornell in North America.
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For more information please contact / 如需更多信息，请与我们联系：
Sarah Watson +1 310-821-6400    swatson@LMGallery.com
Francois Renet +1 212-861-0020   frenet@lmgallery.com
 
CHINA
唐凯琳 Katherine Don +86 158 1018 9440 Kat@RedBoxStudio.cn
张朝选 Chaoxuan Zhang +86 134 6655 9126  Chaoxuan@RedBoxStudio.cn
A full color publication of Shi Guorui's works from 1999 - 2010 is available.