刘小东，小豆在台球厅闲着，2010，布面油画，140x150cm，图片由艺术家提供

展览地点：UCCA大展厅

展览时间：2010.11.17 – 2011.02.20

11月，尤伦斯当代艺术中心将推出本年度最后一个大展：《刘小东：金城小子》。为了该展，刘小东回到了他的故乡辽宁省金城镇。从今年7月到10月，他在金城将他的家人、童年的朋友一一描绘在画布上，同时也用日记、速写、照片等多种形式记录下他这段时间的生活。在此期间，台湾著名导演侯孝贤将跟拍刘小东的此次创作，通过影像立体地展示刘小东的金城回忆。

刘小东来自一个人口不到1万的小镇金城，距离辽宁省锦州市25公里。在这个小镇里有一家造纸厂，创建于20世纪30年代。他家的所有家庭成员都曾在造纸厂工作。至今，造纸仍然是金城的唯一经济支柱。过去几十年间中国农村的飞速发展和日益严重的环境问题，给造纸厂和整个镇子都带来了巨大的变化。他曾经居住的房子、狭窄的街道、一些老旧的建筑虽然经受住了时间的考验，但在刘小东离开的这30年里，早已物是人非。

此次为尤伦斯当代艺术中心特别打造的展览《刘小东：金城小子》将展出20多幅刘小东的全新绘画作品，200余篇生活记录，以及侯孝贤导演拍摄的纪录片，第一次完整、全面地呈现出著名艺术家刘小东的创作历程和艺术实践。

Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy

UCCA Big Hall

November 17, 2010–Februrary 20, 2011

This November, UCCA presents Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy, an intensive look into the practice of one of China’s most accomplished painters. For this solo show, created specifically for UCCA, Liu Xiaodong returned to his hometown of Jincheng in Liaoning Province to spend three months painting his family and childhood friends while documenting the experience through diary entries, sketches and photographs. In addition to the 20 new paintings and over 200 pages of diary entries on display, the exhibition also features a documentary about Liu Xiaodong’s homecoming by famed Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Through painting, writing and film, Hometown Boy offers an unusually panoramic view of Liu Xiaodong’s Jincheng memories, past and present.

When Liu Xiaodong left his hometown as an aspiring 17-year-old art student, Jincheng was a bustling little town where life revolved around the local paper mill. Three decades later, the physical, social and economic landscape has changed drastically: Jincheng’s narrow streets and houses remain, but the local economy has crumbled, unemployment is rampant, and years of environmental degradation have taken their toll. For the artist, it is a homecoming in which observations and depictions of the present are tinged with recollections of a vanished past.