顾德新:2009.3.14

　　开幕：2009年3月14日 周六 16:00

　　展期：2009年3月15日 – 2009年4月3日

　　开放时间：10:00–22:00（周一参观请预约）

　　地址：前门23号•天安时间当代艺术中心 北京市东城区前门东大街23号

　　作为在国际当代艺术界倍受尊崇的艺术家，顾德新被公认为近20年来最具超前意识的观念艺术家，是"前卫艺术家中最前卫的一位"（评论家栗宪庭语），"只为艺术生产作品的艺术家"（评论家黄专语），甚至"中国最好的艺术家"（评论家费大为语）。受天安时间当代艺术中心之邀，顾德新将于2009年3月14日首次在中国的心脏位置实施新作。

　　作为中国观念艺术的先驱，顾德新是早期概念主义团体"新刻度小组"的重要成员，早在1989年就是巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心"大地魔术师"国际大展的参展艺术家，历年来参加过国内外多个重要艺术展览。在多年不间断的创作生涯中，顾德新善于利用生活中为人所熟悉的物质作为作品材料，以极为犀利的视角、严肃而深刻的思考，以及最直接的语言，探讨生命和社会最本质的现象和问题。在评论界看来，他也是极少数不使用中国符号的中国当代艺术家之一，极少解释自己的作品或把它们推向市场。顾德新于2004年获得CCAA中国当代艺术奖"杰出贡献奖"。

　　此次新展中，艺术家将结合天安时间当代艺术中心特殊的空间形态和建筑特性，继续使用生肉、水泥、大理石等日常材料，以其特有的智慧的艺术语言，直面生命与社会现实，传达动人心魄的艺术力量。"顾德新：2009.3.14"按艺术家的惯例以开幕日期命名。对此，几乎从不接受采访的顾德新说过："观众不需要被语言束缚住他们对作品或展览的看法, 或被名称来引导思维；另一方面, 一个日期就代表一个事情的结束或者开始, 对我来说，一个展览的日期是结束, 而对你们来说，是一个开始。"

　　贺洁

　　天安时间当代艺术中心•前门23号

　　北京市东城区前门东大街23号

　　电话：86 10 65598008 * 810

　　传真：86 10 65599260

　　hejie@bca-legationquarter.com

　　http://www.legationquarter.com

　　Gu Dexin：2009.3.14

　　Opening：2009.3.14 16:00 Saturday

　　Duration: 2009.3.15 – 2009.4.3

　　Opening Hours: 10:00 – 22:00 Mondays by appointment only

　　Venue: Beijing Center for the Arts at Legation Quarter No.23, Qian Men Dong Da Jie, Dongcheng District, Beijing

　　Gu Dexin is one of the world’s most prestigious contemporary artists, widely esteemed for his great foresight within conceptual art during the last two decades. Gu has received national and international critical acclaim; Li Xianting named him “the most avant-garde artist amid the avant-garde”, Huang Zhuan titled him as the one “whose artistic production serves only art” and Fei Dawei honored him as “the best Chinese artist of all”. Now, after all of his past provocative and preeminent artistic achievements and experiments, Gu Dexin will showcase his latest work at Beijing Center for the Arts at Legation Quarter—his first exhibition in the very heart of China.

　　As a pioneer of Chinese Conceptual Art, Gu Dexin played a significant role in the early conceptualist “New Analysts Group”. Since his 1989 participation in "Les Magiciens de la Terre" at Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, Gu has been included in several major national and international exhibitions. In his artistic production, Gu uses familiar daily objects- often of vegetable, animal or industrial origins to serve as materials, which directly unveil his radical and provocative viewpoint about the most substantial issues of life and social reality. Critics regard him as one of the few Chinese artists to avoid obvious Chinese symbols and that he probably does the least to explain or market his works. In 2004, the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) honored Gu with their “Outstanding Contribution” award.

　　The upcoming exhibition will continue to feature daily materials such as raw meat, cement, and marble combining them with BCA’s specific spatial pattern and structure. With his unique and intelligent artistic language, Gu will convey the sense of tremendous thrill in confronting life and social reality. The title “Gu Dexin: 2009.3.14” is systematically named after the opening date of the art event for according to this low-profile artist, “on one hand, the way the audiences perceive an artwork or an exhibition should not be confined by the use of language. On the other hand, from my personal perspective, the inscription of a date also signifies the opening or closing of an event. For me, this date is a closing. But for others, it is a beginning.”

　　He Jie

　　Beijing Center for the Arts at Legation Quarter

　　No. 23, Qian Men Dong Da Jie, Dong Cheng District, Beijing

　　T: 86 10 65598008 * 810

　　F: 86 10 65599260

　　hejie@bca-legationquarter.com

　　http://www.legationquarter.com