25 Jun 2012

Symposium 2

I tried to use different random or organized figures with twisted blue oil brushes to intrude the photographs by organizing some positive and negative shapes to cover the main objects of them, and meanwhile change the original meanings.  Photograph and oil color painting are both the medium and the subject of the work, giving not a picture of creative meaning, but some uncertainty versions of meaning. 

The meaning of the photography collection is collaborated between viewer and me, which is unclear or even non-existent, but waiting for viewer to find out, or waiting for something to happen that might never happen. 
In other words, it is pure potentiality and the uncertainty of the future. 

the title of every piece of the collection is very important for viewer, which is the implication of covered objects, and thus leaving them boundless fantasy.

The collection also expresses the comparison between the photograph and oil painting. The vividness of artificial brush is contrary to the flatness of photograph. 

The intruding blue brush, as a medium of painting, as well as a medium of communication, connects the original meaning and new meaning of different possibilities that is created by viewer.  On the other hand, the photograph and the brush of oil painting reflect the stillness and the movement, in which I create some different possibilities, I think, which is the another reality. 
In which, the viewer is the leading role of creating different unsettled stories.

After doing the photography project, I want to use the color of blue to be my personal symbol, in other words, the blue oil color is like my personal logo.
Then I did my recent project, about ‘the value of discarded things

This project tries to evolve, surprise and question the audience and the art world in this commercial society.

to reflect the deliberate confusions between art and commerce
Well, I'm quite interested in properly defining which things are assigned value.

To a large extent this project is about examining concepts of “value” in our culture and re-investing discarded, old, vintage things with meaning and use.
I’m trying to point viewers’ attention to specific objects and events in life that risk being overlooked as being too quotidian or too common.

I also think art making is less about the invention or construction of new things, but more about the close paying attention to existing things.
The abandoned things made by any human beings have witnessed the pass of time.  Giving these wasted old things a new life is a kind of return, as well as a kind of expectation to the nice time of the future.

Collect many discarded thing
Buy cheap  stuff or vintage stuff
Blue oil painting to cover part or whole of these stuff

On the other hand
Make a joke with customers by the way of special sale set up a shop to sale these redesigned products
Price with much higher price than the original’s
mock
blindly run after high-priced, luxury products
bing about a kind of introspection of the real value of packaged products

make viewers think about
What is the real value of packaged products?
How do we value things?





































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