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王礼军：峙——持

Wang Lijun: Tension

展期：2021.06.11 – 2021.07.24

开幕：2021.06.11  4-6pm

我们荣幸地宣布，王礼军在北京公社的首次个展“王礼军：峙——持”将于明日开幕。在后疫情的语境中，在我们对赖以生存的日常经验重新开始密切关注之时，在我们试图弥补被打破的平衡之时，王礼军的这组新作指向着更隐而不发的解读空间。如王礼军本人所说，“倘若寻找平衡意味着在某种不自然中竭力达成自然，那雕塑本身即是在呈现一种虚假的自然”。

在本次以雕塑为主要媒介的个展中，王礼军延续他以物我关系为出发点的实践，持续探索创作者的身份与物理材质、及被放置的物理场域间的关系。具体而言，王礼军关注并使用的材料的特质，其不被显性察觉的，幽微之处的习性——如矫正过的人工木材与天然木材间既对峙又互补的关系，是与艺术家解读并反思的日常经验互相对应又互为阐释的。王礼军呈现的不再只是雕塑创作范畴中可被人工调控的物理平衡，也不止于对疫情尚未褪去的日常经验的偶发思考，而是以材质的属性为切口，时间，空间，重力等物理因素为辅助，在聚焦雕塑的平衡状态之余，在呈现个体的感知时瞬之外，对更多社会性议题发出叩问。

王礼军，1982年生于湖南，2013年获中央美术学院雕塑系硕士学位，现于中央美术学院攻读博士学位，工作生活于北京。以雕塑，装置为主要创作媒介，王礼军的艺术实践长期关注和日常性相关的议题，他试图在材料的物理空间中，在个体存在的空间褶皱里重新感知并洞悉个体与社会的关系。他的作品曾多次以个展和群展的形式在国内外展出, 其中包括广州扉美术馆，四川美术学院美术馆，北京今日美术馆，北京时代美术馆，罗马国立现代及当代美术馆等。

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We are honored to announce the opening of Wang Lijun’s first solo exhibition at Beijing Commune, “Wang Lijun: Tension”, on June 11, 2021. In the context of post-pandemic, while the everydayness that we live by reemerges as a worth thinking issue, as well as our anxious longing for a so-called “balanced life”, it is within this series of new pieces brought by artist Wang Lijun that a broader sense of interpretation lies in. As Wang Lijun himself said, “if seeking for balance means to thrive for a seemingly natural state in pure artificiality, then, the sculpture itself could be seen as a precise representation of such means of artificial tension.”

In this exhibition, artist Wang Lijun’s artistic practice is reflected in his continuous focus on investigating the interrelations between the artist’s self-ego, the materiality, and the physical space that surrounds the former. To be more precise, the medium specificity embedded in the tangible material that Wang Lijun utilizes, as in how the imbricated wood grains of artificial plywood are in a dissonant yet compatible relationship with natural wood, carries out an unperceivable yet essential feature that helps in redefining the philosophical dialectics that Wang Lijun finds in everyday life. Grounded in the materiality of mediums while driven by layers of temporal, spatial, and physical concepts, what this exhibition seeks to show is not simply the physical means of tension formulated by sculptures, nor neither an instinctive portrait of the everyday life in the age of post-pandemic, but a constant and critical contemplation on our anxious longing for the idea of balance itself. 

Wang Lijun (b. 1982, Hunan) graduated with a MA in Sculpture from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. He is now pursuing his PhD while lives and works in Beijing. Wang Lijun’s interest in issues revolving around everydayness, materiality, and spatiality could be reflected in his artistic practice throughout which sculpture and installation act as core mediums. It is within his tangible interactions with such materials that not only his personal perceptions but the issues emerging in the broader social context are represented. His works have even shown worldwide in solo and group exhibitions that include Fei Art Museum Guangzhou, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing Times Art Museum, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, and so on.

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