裸体与摔跤手引出的叙事 | 卡罗尔·杜汉姆 Carroll Dunham
卡罗尔·杜汉姆 Carroll Dunham
格莱斯顿画廊 ｜ 纽约西24街515号（切尔西区）
Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th St, New York
展期：2018.04.20 - 06.16
▲ 《卡罗尔·杜汉姆》展览现场, 2018.04.20—06.16. / Installation view of Carroll Dunham, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2018.04.20—06.16.
▲ 《任何一天》Any Day, 2017, 聚氨酯、丙烯、铅笔、亚麻画布 Urethane, acrylic and pencil on linen; 198.1 x 254 cm; 含边框 212.7 x 268.3 x 6.4 cm framed.
此次卡罗尔·杜汉姆的新作品展将呈现“摔跤手”系列中的数件大尺幅绘画作品，它们展现了艺术家长期以来对诠释裸体特别是男性身体形态的执着与探索。这些在过去十多年中完成的画作，反映了艺术家在创作生涯中以独特的方式对绘画进行反复实践和修正所形成的清晰脉络。通过使用从历史材料和个人记忆中挖掘出的、与摔跤有关的神话式视觉语言，这些绘画在杜汉姆的创作实践中留下了一条新的叙事线索，其在本质上既是形式化的，又具有自传性色彩。
▲ 《卡罗尔·杜汉姆》展览现场, 2018.04.20—06.16. / Installation view of Carroll Dunham, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2018.04.20—06.16.
▲ 《绿色山丘（2）》Green Hills of Earth (2), 2017, 聚氨酯、丙烯、铅笔、亚麻画布 Urethane, acrylic and pencil on linen; 172.7 x 200.7 cm; 含边框 185.7 x 213.4 x 5.7 cm framed.
为了给自己作品里的女性人物提供男性对应物，杜汉姆常常回到摔跤手的形象，引出了各种各样本能和心理上的叙事，揉杂了艺术家在整体创作中反复思索的主题，即玩笑、暴力和性。这些男性主人公被置于鲜艳、抽象的风景之中，置身于树木、花朵、鸟和狗等装饰物中间，他们残酷地相互袭击，又温柔地缠抱在一起，亦或是死气沉沉地瘫倒在崎岖的地面上。每件作品的构图都以独特的视角展现了竞争对手间身体和心智的搏斗，时而直截了当地呈现了男人相互打斗的画面，时而记录下被打败的男人处于垂死状态的情境。通过把男人的形象框定在长方形画布的富有形式感的框架之中，同时反复引入乌黑发亮的鸟的形象——它们目睹了这暴力的对决和决一胜负后的结果，以捕食者的姿态赫然耸现在这一幕幕混乱场面之中，这种心理状态被更进一步强化。
▲ 《卡罗尔·杜汉姆》展览现场, 2018.04.20—06.16. / Installation view of Carroll Dunham, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2018.04.20—06.16.
▲ 《等死（1）》Left for Dead (1), 2017, 聚氨酯、丙烯、铅笔、亚麻画布 Urethane, acrylic and pencil on linen; 132.1 x 116.8 cm; 含边框 143.8 x 128.6 x 5.7 cm framed.
虽然这些摔跤手绘画呈现了艺术家对一些不常涉及的主题所做的新探索，它们依然使用和玩味着在杜汉姆的绘画和素描作品中随处可见的视觉语言。比如，在《任何一天》（Any Day，2017）中，观者被引入到一个难以辨识、特艺彩色（technicolor）的绵延山丘地带，在这里，比例、重力和真实性统统失调，而这正是杜汉姆标志性的画面背景。被草覆盖的S形山丘将构图一分为二，画面被卡通式的植物图像所充斥。在这片绿油油的地形之上，杜汉姆描绘了一位沐浴的裸体女性——这是在他的早期具象作品里反复出现的人物。通过将一连串熟悉的人物形象和场景与新挖掘的男性主人公相结合，杜汉姆近期创作的这组作品展现了他对于描绘空间中的形式所持续付出的探索与好奇心。
▲ 《泥男人》Mud Men, 2017, 聚氨酯、丙烯、铅笔、亚麻画布 Urethane, acrylic and pencil on linen; 254 x 157.5 cm; 含边框 268.6 x 171.8 x 5.7 cm framed.
▲ 《泥男人》（局部）Mud Men (detail), 2017
卡罗尔·杜汉姆出生于1949年，目前在纽约和康涅狄格州生活与工作。杜汉姆曾在诸多国际性艺术机构举办过个展，其中包括：德国科隆路德维西博物馆；瑞典斯德哥尔摩米勒斯雕塑公园；挪威德拉蒙博物馆；以及他在纽约新当代艺术博物馆举办的职业生涯中期回顾展。杜汉的作品还被众多重量级群展和双年展收录，其中包括：惠特尼双年展和SITE 圣塔菲双年展；以及瑞士日内瓦现当代艺术博物馆；纽约现代艺术博物馆；毕加索博物馆；波士顿当代艺术博物馆。
▲ 《卡罗尔·杜汉姆》展览现场, 2018.04.20—06.16. / Installation view of Carroll Dunham, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2018.04.20—06.16.
This exhibition of new works by Carroll Dunham features large-scale paintings from the artist’s Wrestlers series, which demonstrate Dunham’s continued exploration of and fascination with interpretations of the nude body with particular attention to the male form. Made over the last year, these paintings reflect a clear new direction for the artist through the lens of the distinctive approach to painting that Dunham has employed and tinkered with throughout his career. Using the visual language of mythological depictions of wrestling, mined from art historical sources and his own memory, these paintings propose new through lines in Dunham’s practice that are both formal and autobiographical in nature.
▲ 《卡罗尔·杜汉姆》展览现场, 2018.04.20—06.16. / Installation view of Carroll Dunham, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2018.04.20—06.16.
▲ 《等死（3）》Left for Dead (3), 2017-2018, 聚氨酯、丙烯、铅笔、亚麻画布 Urethane, acrylic and pencil on linen; 132.1 x 116.8 cm; 含边框 143.8 x 128.6 x 5.7 cm framed.
Providing male counterparts to the female figures Dunham has continuously returned to, the wrestlers introduce a variety of visceral and psychological narratives that incorporate an amalgam of recurring themes prevalent throughout his oeuvre, namely playfulness, violence, and sexuality. Set in vibrant and abstracted landscapes adorned with trees, flowers, birds, and dogs, the male protagonists brutally assault one another, gently hold each other, or lie lifeless on the rugged terrain. Each composition provides a unique insight into the physical and mental struggles among these competing figures, either through straightforward scenes of men attacking each other, or through the documentation of defeated men left for dead. This psychology is intensified through the formal framing of the men within the rectangular bounds of the canvas, as well as through the repeated insertion of jet black birds that witness the violent matches and aftermath of each battle, predatorily looming over the turbulent scenes.
▲ 《卡罗尔·杜汉姆》展览现场, 2018.04.20—06.16. / Installation view of Carroll Dunham, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2018.04.20—06.16.
Though the wrestler paintings present a new approach to less explored motifs, these works reuse and play with a visual vocabulary found throughout Dunham’s paintings and drawings. For instance, in Any Day (2017), the viewer is transported to an unidentifiable technicolor terrain of rolling hills where scale, gravity and reality are rendered incongruous, a signature setting for the artist. The composition is split in half by an S-shaped outline of grass-covered hills filled with cartoonish florae. Beyond this verdant topography, Dunham depicts a nude woman bathing, an important recurring character in his earlier figurative works. By combining this array of familiar figures and settings with his newfound male protagonists, Dunham’s recent works demonstrate his ever-explorative vision and curiosity in depicting forms in space.
A catalogue with an essay by Catherine Taft accompanies the exhibition.
▲ 《黄昏（摔跤地点6）》Dusk (A Wrestling Place 6), 2017, 聚氨酯、丙烯、铅笔、亚麻画布 Urethane, acrylic and pencil on linen; 154.9 x 198.1 cm; 含边框 168 x 210.8 x 5.7 cm framed.
▲ 《黄昏（摔跤地点6）》（局部）Dusk (A Wrestling Place 6) (detail), 2017
Carroll Dunham was born in 1949 and lives and works in New York and Connecticut. Dunham’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutions including Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Millesgården, Stockholm; Drammens Museum, Drammen, Norway; a mid-career retrospective was held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Dunham has also been included in notable group exhibitions including multiple Whitney Biennials and SITE Santa Fe; and at institutions including Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu Picasso, Barcelona; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
▲ 《卡罗尔·杜汉姆》展览现场, 2018.04.20—06.16. / Installation view of Carroll Dunham, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2018.04.20—06.16.
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