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理查德·奥尔德里奇 Richard Aldrich
《MDD》MDD
多尔德霍特-达内斯美术馆 ｜ 比利时/圣马尔滕斯-拉特姆
Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
展期：2016年10月16日－2017年01月15日
▲ Richard Aldrich, Lady of Warka, 2015 (2013-2014). Oil, wax and enamel on linen on dibond, 85 x 57 inches (215.9 x 144.8 cm)
理查德·奥尔德里奇（Richard Aldrich，1975年出生于美国汉普顿）的作品通过使用图像、文本、绘画、出版物和音乐等多种媒介元素，对不同的经验和主题展开探索。他的绘画时而色彩鲜艳、富有表现力，时而克制、冷峻，散发出极简主义的气质。他在抽象与具象绘画之间游刃游走，有时使用厚涂法笔触，有时则展现平滑细腻的肌理。在经历了二十世纪各种绘画风格革新的洗礼后，像理查德·奥尔德里奇这样一位艺术家已可以彻底摒弃一切约束——画其所好，大胆实验——而不被绘画艺术中所谓的“开拓者”身份所束缚。每一次展览都可能对奥尔德里奇的作品注入新的叙事线索或层层深意。
在本次多尔德霍特-达内斯美术馆的展览中，理查德·奥尔德里奇决定将一系列新旧作品结合呈现。一部分作品由艺术家凭借直觉选出，另一部分作品则是奥尔德里奇根据多尔德霍特-达内斯美术馆展厅内的空间环境所作出的特别选择，旨在为观者创造出独特的视觉体验。这些作品共同建立了一张交织着艺术史、流行文化和艺术家个人经历的直观的网。理查德·奥尔德里奇的任何展览都由不确定的主题而引发。相反，这是一个不断做出选择的过程，它使作品在相互作用中产生新的关系，或在彼此平行中变得更为明晰。
在理查德·奥尔德里奇的绘画中，我们很难在主题或构图的层面上找出一条清晰的发展脉络，取而代之的是一种非线性的前后往复：从文本到图像、从抽象到具象、从大尺寸到小尺寸的作品…在同一个月中创作的作品可能看起来截然不同，而两张创作间隔几年的绘画则可能在质感和构图上显现出明显的相似性。不过，在时间这一无法逆转的决定性因素的推动下，人们对于同一件作品的感知也在不断发生变化：一件创作于十年前的作品将在当下得到与过去不同的解读——无论是对艺术家还是对观众而言。因此，奥尔德里奇认为在回顾展中重新审视自己的作品不失为一个迷人的想法——人们将对相同的作品作出全新的解读，就像是重访过去的艺术、观念和主题。奥尔德里奇以这样的方式反思艺术家的身份和立场，以及他/她与过去和当下之间的关系。
不同的个人经验和背景知识将使每一位观者对理查德·奥尔德里奇的作品和展览产生独一无二的见解。艺术家认为观众对作品的理解程度并不重要，重要的是观众处理这一过程的方式。奥尔德里奇喜欢在作品里保留不确定性和模糊性，激发观看者透过独特的个人视角对作品注入全新的意义。奥尔德里奇认为，自己的作品既不是对某一观念的视觉呈现，也不是对某一美学程式的发展和推进。这些作品在彼此的联结中形成了一个有机的整体，不断引发出新的思考和难以预测的体验。
Richard Aldrich (1975, Hampton, U.S.A.) plays in his workwith images, text, painting, publications and music to evoke very differentreferences and experiences. His paintings can be very expressive and colourful,but also minimalist and very determined, sometimes abstract then againfigurative, occasionally painted with impasto brushstrokes, then flat withouttexture. After the many innovations painting underwent in the twentiethcentury, an artist like Richard Aldrich can have the freedom to radically paintas he likes and experiment without maintaining a socalled pioneering positionon the art of painting. Each exhibition may add new story lines or layers ofmeaning to his work.
For his exhibition at the museum Dhondt-Dhaenens RichardAldrich made a selection of works in which he opted for a combination of newand existing work. Some works are chosen intuitively while other choices areclearly determined by the specific visual experiment that he wants to developin the exhibition space of the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. All the works formtogether form an intuitive web of references alluding to art history, pop musicand his own biography. An exhibition of Richard Aldrich never results from athematic approach. Often it is through making his choice that new relationshipsdevelop between the works themselves, or that some parallels becomeclearly articulate.
In the way Richard Aldrich creates his paintings there is noevolution to discover in terms of themes or composition, it is rather a jumpingback and forth: from text to image, from abstract to figurative, from largeformat to small format … Painting made in the same month can lookvery different whereas paintings made several years apart may show veryclear similarities in texture and composition. What is irrevocably evolving istime and thus the perception of a work throughout this timespan: today a workmade ten years ago is perceived in a very different way, both by the artist andthe viewer. Hence Richard Aldrich finds it fascinating to view his works inretrospective, because it allows for new interpretations of the same work, muchin the same way that we revisit art/ideas/themes from the past. It is his wayto reflect on the position of the artist and his/her relationship with thepresent and the past.
Each viewer has a different knowledge and will therefore interpret the work and the exhibition of Richard Aldrich in a singular way. For the artist it does not matter how well you are informed, but how you deal with it. Richard Aldrich likes to create uncertainty and ambiguity about his work to generate new interpretations that the individuals own interpretation is most important. He does not consider his work as the representation of a concept or the development of an aesthetic program, but rather sees it as an organic entity generating very diverse ideas and unpredictable experiences.
理查德·奥尔德里奇（Richard Aldrich）《MDD》展览现场，多尔德霍特-达内斯美术馆，比利时/圣马尔滕斯-拉特姆；展期：2016年10月16日—2017年01月15日；摄影：Rik Vannevel
Installation view of Richard Aldrich, MDD, October 16, 2016 – January 15, 2017, at museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; courtesy of museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; photos: Rik Vannevel
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