展览日期:2007-09-08至2007-10-14
展览地点:红星画廊展览

陈家刚、渠岩、何崇岳的"后纪实"摄影试图把纪实推得更远,更实在、更深入、更理性,更有社会责任感,从而摆脱目前的所谓纪实影像的"快照"观念。所以,在如何记述现实这一问题上,渠岩、陈家刚和何崇岳都有自己的独特思考和方法。
"后纪实"影像在表现现实的时候,注重现实的历史根据,在拍摄"在场"的时候,艺术家的大脑须了解"在场"和"场外"不可分割的上下文关系;"后纪实"是理性的,它认为理性的价值在于它可以引导观众超越感官愉悦,从而直达事物本质;"后纪实"因此是反形式主义的,它秉承人文主义和批判主义的现实态度,其根本目的是诉诸人性的真、善、美,揭露任何伪装形式的假、恶、丑。"后记实"在人道关怀这一点似乎又回到了文革结束时期"四月影会"的纪实摄影,但是,"后纪实"不再相信类似新闻照片那样的单幅图像的力量,因为我们曾经受到了太多的叙事欺骗。后记实相信理性、相信结构、相信作品和外在现实的关系甚于相信作品本身。
摈弃目前摄影中所谓的"在场"纪实和符号拼凑,"后记实"作为一种既具有方法论探索的动力,也有人文批判的热情的艺术倾向不仅仅出现在摄影领域,在其他影像、绘画甚至建筑中都已初露端倪。
Chen Jiagang, He Chongyue, Qu Yan and their Beyond "Site Specific" Photography attempt to ignore the so-called "on-the-spot," while photographing in a more practical, in-depth, and rational way with a stronger sense of social liability, so as to shake off the "snapshot" concept of the present on-the-spot images. Therefore, on the question of how to record reality, these three artists have their distinctive way of thought.
Beyond "Site Specific" images emphasize the historical background of reality, and when shooting on site, photographers must understand the inseparable context of the "on-site" and the "beyond-the-site." "Post Site Specific" is more rational, testified by its rational value in leading the viewers to surpass sensory delight and reaching the substance of matters. "Post Site Specific" is therefore anti-formalist, upholding the practical attitude of humanism and criticism and the aiming to spread honesty, goodness, and beauty of human beings and unmask fake, badness, and ugliness in any form of disguise. In terms of humanistic care, "Post Site Specific" seems to have returned to the "on-the-spot photography" represented by the "April Photo Society" in the late 1970s, after the Culture Revolution period. But, "Post Site Specific" photographers no longer trust the power of single images like journalist photos, after having been experienced narrative deceptions on many occasions. They believe in rationality and structure, and rather than the photograph itself, they would believe in its relationship with the external reality.
Rejecting the so-called "on-the-spot" record and symbolic assembly prevalent in present photography, "Post Site Specific," as a new trend of art that combines impetus in methodological exploration and enthusiasm for humanistic criticism, has emerged not just in the field of photography, but also in other images, painting, and even architecture.
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