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理查德 · 迪肯：新雕塑

Richard Deacon: New Sculpture

3. 17 - 5. 12. 2018

北京公社荣幸地宣布我们将代理英国艺术家理查德·迪肯，并于2018年3月17日至5月12日开启他在中国的第一次个人展览。展览以“新雕塑”命名，艺术家试图从他持续进行的两个系列中创作新的作品。两组作品分别为“定制”系列和“新字母”系列。两者均在探索各自系列作品中蕴含的可能性与关联性，并由艺术家呈现艺术生产的丰富性。

艺术家将自己定义为一名“fabricator”（制造者），而不是一名雕刻家或模型制作者。让理查德·迪肯感兴趣的正是制造业或者说建造的技能。事实上，艺术家在不同层面上使用了“fabricator”这一概念，一名“fabricator”（制造者）既可以被当作是一位组装不同标准化材料的建造者，也可以被理解为一位有能力组建新事物的幻想家。

花俏定制｜Fancy Custom｜2018｜不锈钢｜stainless steel｜108 x 203 x 70 cm

一组作品名为“定制”。在2012年，理查德·迪肯开始把不锈钢管劈开，通过将凸面和凹面的部分沿着它们的长度连在一起，形成复杂的形状。“Custom”可以与美国文化中的“定制”相联系，指的是标准模型被修改、个性化和具体化。然而在英语中，“Custom”这个词有非常广泛的含义，其中包括“习惯”、“边境管理”、“社会习俗”和“亚文化仪式”。艺术家为北京公社举办展览所创作的两件作品继续发展了这些想法，它们分别是《另一种定制》（2018）与《花哨定制》（2018）。“Fancy”意在表述作品被包裹的边缘、装饰性的表面以及对内部形式的细致打造。“Fancy”这个英文单词存在多层含义―当我们用这个词形容一块蛋糕或连衣裙时，意味着被提及的对象是为特殊的场合准备的特殊之物。 “Fancy”作为一个日常用语，可以指“欲望”或“想象”。《另一种定制》 这件作品既属于同系列作品中的另一件作品，又强调它自身具有的不同制造手法的差异性。

新字母 DEF｜New Alphabet DEF｜2018｜不锈钢，颜料｜stainless steel and paint｜200 x 286 x 47 cm

另一组作品名为“新字母”。早在2005 年，理查德·迪肯完成了一组由多边形分片发展而成的形态各异的素描作品，内容多种多样。艺术家发现他完成了26幅图画，便将其统称为《字母》。随后，理查德·迪肯用折叠的钢槽划出图纸上的线，把它们变成平的浮雕。艺术家开始基于折叠金属的形状与结构以及颜色思考如何组合。在为北京融科科技园的4号楼大厅委托创作的作品《光雨—沉思》中，艺术家将一个形状置于另一个形状之上，以浮雕为媒介完成了一个新的组合。艺术家随后意识到，三部分组合起来将有一个足够大的底部来支撑起立于空间中的一件雕塑，而这雕塑其中也会蕴含双面体的性质。北京公社首次展示了一组这样的三面体组合。艺术家对于颜色的选择参考了印刷四分色模式（CMYK）。从正面看，《新字母ABC》（2018）、《新字母DEF》（2018）和《新字母JKL》（2018） 分别对应套色中的洋红色、青色和黑色；在《新字母GHI》（2018） 中，黄色被替换成一种冷静的白色，让自身区别于白立方似的白色展墙。如果我们绕到作品背后，我们会观察到沿着不锈钢作品的构架发散的彩色反光。

理查德·迪肯1949 年生于威尔士, 1972年毕业于伦敦圣马丁艺术学院，1977年毕业于伦敦皇家艺术学院，现工作、生活于伦敦。理查德·迪肯于1987 年获得特纳奖。2007年代表威尔士参加第52届威尼斯双年展；2010年他的回顾展《遗失的部分》在斯特拉斯堡的现代艺术博物馆举行；2014年迪肯的大型回顾展在英国泰特美术馆举行；2015年瑞士温特图尔艺术博物馆举行了迪肯十年作品回《在另一面》；2016年，德国埃森福克旺博物馆对他的版画和素描作品进行了全面的回顾展览。2017年，加利福尼亚的圣迭戈美术馆为理查德·迪肯举办了他在美国的第一个综合性的美术馆展览《所见即所得》。

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Beijing Commune is pleased to represent the British artist Richard Deacon, and present his first solo show in China, from 17th March to 12th May 2018. The exhibition is titled “New Sculpture”, which suggests that the artist attempts to develop new works from two categories of his on-going practice started several years ago. The two groups of works to be presented are from Custom series and New Alphabet series. Both of them explore the possibilities and associations embedded in each series of works, which allows the artist to bring out the richness of art making.

The artist positions himself as a fabricator, who is neither a carver nor a modeler. It is manufacturing or building skills that interests him most. Richard Deacon uses the concept of fabricator on various levels. A fabricator could be regarded as a constructor who put diverseand usually standardized parts together, while it could be also understood as a fantasist who is capable of making things up.

另一件定制｜Another Custom｜2018｜不锈钢｜stainless steel｜192 x 124 x 203 cm

One group of works are called Custom. In 2012, Richard Deacon started splitting the stainless steel tube and building up complex shapes by joining sections of convex and concave curves together along their length. The word “Custom” could be associated with the American culture of “customizing”, where a standard model is modified, individualized and particularized. However, “Custom” as an English word is related to a broad range of meanings, including habit, border controls, social mores and sub-culture rituals. The two works made for Beijing Commune’s show continue to develop these ideas, one is titled Another Custom (2018) while the other is titled Fancy Custom (2018). “Fancy” essentially describes the muffled edge and decorative surface of the work, and the elaboration of an internal form. The English word “fancy” has multiple layers of meaning-a fancy cake or fancy dress are special things for a special occasion, “Fancy” can also mean to desire, or to imagine in everyday speech. “Another Custom” as well as being another of the same group, also identifies itself as different, as having been made in a different way.

新字母 JKL｜New Alphabet JKL｜2018｜不锈钢，颜料｜stainless steel and paint｜195 x 193 x 47 cm

Another group of works are called New Alphabet. Back to 2005, Richard Deacon finished a group of drawings eveloped from polygonal shapes sub-divided in a variety of ways. The artist realised that he had 26 drawings and collectively called the drawings Alphabet. Subsequently, Richard Deacon turned these into flat reliefs, using folded steel channel for the lines in the drawings. The artist started to think about combinations based on the shape and structure of the folded metal, together with the use of color. One combination was realized in a relief, one shape on top of another, in the commissioned work Rain Or Shine for the lobby of Building 4 in Raycom Technology Park in Beijing. Consequentially, the artist realised that a combination of three would have a large enough foot to have a sculpture that would stand in space and that there would be a two sided-ness to it. A group of these three-sided clusters are being shown for the first time at Beijing Commune. The artist’s choice of paint refers the process color. We can tell from the front that New Alphabet ABC (2018), New Alphabet DEF (2018), and New Alphabet JKL (2018) represent magenta, cyan, and black separately in the CMYK color model. In New Alphabet GHI (2018), yellow is replaced by a sort of clinical white, which distinguishes itself from the wall in a white cube space. If we walk around and look at the work from the back, we could observe the reflections along the skeleton of the stainless steel works.

Richard Deacon was born in Wales in 1949. He received his BA from St Martin’s School of Art, London in 1972, and MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 1977. The artist currently lives and works in London. Richard Deacon won the Turner Prize in 1987. He represented Wales at the 52nd Bienniale of Art in Venice in 2007. A major retrospective titled “The Missing Part” was shown at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, in 2010. Tate Britain mounted a major survey in 2014. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland held a ten-year survey “On The Other Side” in 2015. A retrospective of his prints and drawings was presented at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany in 2016. In 2017 he made his first comprehensive museum exhibition in the USA, “What You See Is What You Get” at the Museum of Fine Art in San Diego California.

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