Boers-Li画廊荣幸的宣布，我们将在2010年11月11日至12月5开幕来自陈彧君个展“空房间”。本次展览将展出艺术家自2008年以来创作的十余件作品。

陈彧君1976年出生于福建莆田，其创作的最初动机来源闽中华侨文化。由于家族中的一支在1900年代移民南洋，他的作品一直关注那些未曾谋面的“异域”血脉及其生活环境。如青年批评家鲁明军所概括的：这种心灵记忆与生活经验赋予他的艺术某种特殊的人类学色彩。在陈彧君这里，作为异域的南洋代表着一种可能的空间或者未知的经验。而对这种未知经验的表达成为他作品的初衷。陈彧君的绘画方式简单而朴素，它们是某些建筑和场景的混搭，在花木，装饰和陈设之间透着淡淡的沧桑和孤寂。这些图像来源于艺术家的经验世界，却通过独特的绘画表达超越了经验。它们不断挑战观众的观看逻辑，从而呼唤着对于未知世界的探求。

“亚洲地境”是艺术家在2009年开始的新系列。一直以来，亚洲作为一个共同体被提出，实际是来自西方中心主义的文化压迫。亚洲作为一个文化概念实际造就了我们着对亚洲内部的各种文化差异的忽略。在“亚洲地境”中，陈彧君试图营造一个陌生的“他者”空间，一个陌生但又似曾相识的所谓“亚洲”空间。在这些作品中，除了古怪的陈设之外，在二维关系中通过现成品和各种线条拓展的空间形成了一个独特的深度。凝视它们，空间的错乱、虚无、破碎使得我们的存在和身份认同飘渺起来。

亚洲地境超越了陈彧君早期对于“南洋”的想象，将观念的焦点放在历史和身份认同上。在这个系列中艺术家将居住空间延伸成亚洲的地理空间。如艺术家所说“我的整个创作计划是从自己家族移民史的话题展开，主要是借这样一条外延的线索来呈现自己私密的体验和想象。试图通过这样一个特定的空间设置来描述一个独特的居住空间及其居者被异化的身份”。

The Empty Room - Chen Yujun Solo Exhibition

Boers-Li Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recentwork by Chen Yujun produced since 2008 in a project entitled The Empty Room opening on 11 November 2010 and running through 5 December.

Chen Yujun was born in Putian of Fujian province in 1976, and the most basic motivation of his work comes from the culture of the Central Min diaspora. Because a branch of his family emigrated to Southeast Asia in 1900, many of his works are concerned with this lineage and the living environments of that alien territory. As young critic Lu Mingjun has summarized, this form of mental memory and life experience creates in his artistic practice a distinct anthropological aesthetic: for Chen Yujun, the foreign land of the South China Sea represents a space of possibility or experience of the unknown, and the communication of this experience becomes the original intention of his work. His mode of painting is simple and unadorned, consisting of hybrid visions of architecture and scene, a sensation of bland vicissitude and solitude that emerges through plants, decorations, and furnishings. Such images originate in the experiential world of the artist, but exceed this experience through a unique form of communication in painting. They consistently challenge the observational logic of the viewer, calling for explorations into the unknown.

“Asian Geography” is a new series initiated by the artist in 2009. For some time, the notion of Asia has been advanced as a community primarily through the cultural oppression of Eurocentric ideology, such that the cultural concept of Asia actually convinces us to ignore cultural differences within the continent. In “Asian Geography,” Chen Yujun attempts to produce an alien space of the other, a space of Asia at once both strange and familiar. In these works, apart from the appearance of bizarre furnishings, we find that readymade objects and space constructed through the extension of all manner of lines form a unique depth within a set of two-dimensional relationships. Observing such works, the disorder, vacuity, and fragmentation of space interfere with an understanding of our own identity and existence.

“Asian Geography” surpasses Chen Yujun's early imagination of Southeast Asia, placing the focus of this concept within an identification of history and identity. Within this series, the artist extends his domestic space such that it becomes the geographic space of Asia. As he says: “The entire course of my practice unfolds through the history of migration of my family, appropriating this outward trajectory primarily in order to present my own secret experiences and imaginations. Through this specific spatial situation, I attempt to depict a singular domestic space and the alienated identity of its resident.”

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