肖旭琳个人作品展

展览名称: O2 PAINTING+VIDEO – XIAO XULIN Solo Exhibition/肖旭琳个人作品展
展览日期: 13/5/2008-12/6/2008
开幕酒会: 16/5/2008(6.00 – 8.30pm )
主办单位: 不一艺术EDGE GALLERY
地址：香港铜锣湾礼顿道60C地下(礼顿里转入)G/F, 60C Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. (Enter through Leighton Lane)

展览前言:

肖旭琳1979年生于湖南， 2004年毕业于四川美术学院油画系，现居于昆明和北京，并任教于云南师范大学艺术学院油画系。主要从事绘画及录像创作: 2006年执导独立短片《柠檬》，2007开始创作新系列绘画作品《O2》以及影像作品《想要跟你说件事》。

主要展览包括2006年《格斗橙》ALAB实域艺术空间，2005《江湖——移动中的影像》，2005《云之南纪录影像展》，2004《江湖》实验艺术展，2003《中国元素》四川美术学院艺展 。

肖旭琳的创作关心信息膨胀年代的图像特质、内容表达、以至意义。我们每天走在街上、坐在计算机、电视屏幕前，有过千万的图像在我们视网膜划过，留下了支离破碎的记忆。战争/车祸/毛主席/张柏芝/孙悟空/妓女/斗鸡/斗狗/三只蝇苍……无聊/社会/政治/娱乐/色情……真的/假的/拟似的……通通都被安放在肖旭琳画布上的两个圈子里。它们有些被肖旭琳移花接木、移情换景，有些又被他编成一对并置出现，这种强迫性的关联编造不但消解了图像本身的意义，而假叙事之间又勾引另一种出光陆怪离的趣味，这就是肖旭琳绘画的思考特质 – 对当下生活的敏锐反应，这种特质正好向观众提供中国新生代艺术家的另一面思考。

Xiao Xulin was born in Hunan, China in 1979. Graduating from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a major in oil painting, Xiao currently lives in Kunming and Beijing, and works as a professor assistant of oil painting studio in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Yunnan Normal University. Xiao’s creation concentrates mainly on painting and experimental movies. In 2006, Xiao has directed an independent movie “Lemon”. In 2007, Xiao started his new series of oil paintings “O2”and the experimental video project “I have something to tell you”.

Major exhibitions include: 2006 “The orange contemporary art exhibition” ALAB Loft, Kumming, 2005 “Jiang Hu - Moving images”, 2005 “Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival”, 2004 “Jiang Hu – experimental art exhibition”, 2003 “Chinese Element”, Exhibition of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

Xiao’s creation concerns the character of the image, expression of the context, as well as the meaning of messages in the era of overwhelming information. Everyday, whenever we walk on the street, sit in front of the computer and television monitors, there are over millions of images passing through our eyes, leaving fragmented memory in our mind. War/ traffic accident/ president Mao/ Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi/ monkey king/ prostitute/ cock combat/ dog combat/ three flies …… boring / social/ political/ entertaining/ pornographic…….it is true/ fake/ suspected……The fragments are all captured in the circles of Xiao’s canvas. Original pictures are partly replaced with other images; some of the backgrounds are changed into other scene; some images are put into juxtaposition. This kind of fabricated association not only dispels the meaning of the images, it also arouses the extraordinary interest within themselves. This is the characteristics of Xiao’s thinking in his creation – this is the sensitivity to daily life. Such characteristic provides a different aspect of understanding the Chinese young artists in the new generation.

Beautiful Island150X210CM

Can t Make It Clear120X120CM

invisible Monkey King120X120CM

Stories Encounter 1120X120CM

Uncertain Moment180X220CM

Video I have sometimg to tell you