A K Dolven個展——尋找平衡點
策展人：邵大衛（David Thorp）
展覽時間：2010.6.6 - 2010.7.11
開幕式：2010.6.5 下午15:00
展覽地點：站臺中國B空間
主辦方：站臺中國當代藝術機構
項目支援：OCA挪威當代藝術辦公室&創新挪威-Nordland &挪威王國駐華大使館
挪威藝術家A K Dolven的中國首個個展將於2010年6月5日下午3時在站臺中國的B空間展出。展覽是站臺中國關於動態影像在當代藝術中所扮演的角色、及所處的位置系列對話中的一個組成部分。儘管A K Dolven的藝術實踐包括電影、錄影、攝影、繪畫以及定點裝置作品等，但在中國的第一次個人展覽“尋找平衡點”中所涉及的主要是動態影像。
自中國當代藝術出現至今，尤其是近些年來，它所涵蓋的各個領域均呈現出百花齊放的態勢。據此，我們可以看出，當代藝術不再必須是以西方為中心的藝術，而是，作為全球整體的每一部分，由當下各種藝術形式組成的當代藝術家的作品展幾乎橫貫了整個東西方。A K Dolven在此次展覽中所展示的四個作品跨越了八年時間，儘管這四個作品以單獨的形式展出，但也從另一個角度反映了A K Dolven在和電影與錄影相關的方面所作的基本實踐。她的創作將人體作為承載了人類情感和心緒的器皿，並以此作為一種物質形式和物質世界的替代品；更多的，則是從以人為本的立場考慮個體存在的本質條件，以及這些條件潛在的哲學立場在美學標準中所具有的反映和意識。無論是直接的還是間接的，作品中的每一部分都以他物為借鑒尤其是將風景作為參考的載體。
這些作品都以A K Dolven對環境對事物的敏銳性為根基，最終成形于歐洲北部地區，以及圍繞著羅浮敦群島的景致中。冬季的山脈從上往下都被厚厚的積雪所覆蓋，而夏季，太陽則懸掛在那裏，永不落下。這種極端的氣候被Dolven當做背景在使用，是一個和城市環境對照而言更為純凈和簡單的現實存在，從而為她的映像創建了一個豐富多彩的舞臺。它的粗糙和簡單的透視成為Dolven的創意溫床，當她拋開人類的經驗之談，回歸到基礎和本質，就更加拓寬了長久以來所形成的固有的視覺藝術範疇。
策展人：邵大衛（David Thorp）
A K Dolven’s Solo Show looking for balance
Curate by: David Thorp
Exhibition Venue: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute
Exhibition Dates: June 6th – July 11th 2010
Exhibition Opening: June 5th 2010 15:00pm
Project supported by: OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Innovation Norway, Nordland; Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing
Norwegian artist A K Dolven's first solo show in China will be exhibited in the Space B of Platform China, opening at 15:00 p.m. on June 5, 2010. This exhibition is part of a continuing dialogue established at Platform China concerning the role of the moving image in contemporary art. Although A K Dolven’s practice includes film, video, photography, painting as well as site specific works, the show looking for balance presented for the first time in China concerns itself specifically with works made for moving images.
As the emergence of contemporary art from China has shown vividly in recent years, contemporary art is no longer necessarily West-centric. The work of contemporary artists is exhibited throughout the world as part of a homogenised global totality that comprises the art of today. In this exhibition Dolven is showing four works executed over a period of eight years that represent separate but interrelated and fundamental aspects of her practice in film and video - a concern with the body as the vessel within which human sensibility and emotions are contained and alternatively as substance in a world of form and matter; the existential condition of the individual considered from an essentially humanist position, and the potential these philosophical positions have to be realised within an aesthetic canon. Each either directly or implicitly makes reference to place and more particularly the landscape.
These works are rooted in Dolven’s sensibility formed in the northern reaches of Europe, in the landscape that surrounds the Lofoten Islands. Here in the winter the mountains that run down to the sea are covered in deep snow, in the summer the sun never sets. This extreme environment is used as a backdrop by Dolven, a reality that contrasts favourably in its purity and simplicity to an urban setting, creating a generous stage for her reflections. Its harsh and simple scenography has become a place where Dolven´s ideas can gestate as she reduces the human experience to fundamental conditions and broadens enduring conventions of visual art.
Curator: DAVID THORP