我们荣幸的宣布刘文涛在空白空间的第三个个展“界”将在2011年6月11日开幕。本次将展出刘文涛4件新作，随之展开艺术家一次场域上的尝试和新的视觉体验。

刘文涛的新作品延续了在纸上和布面上绘制铅笔直线的工作方法，但不再局限于关注作品内部空间的构建与传递，而是在有意识的集中尝试如何将外部空间纳入到自己的形式系统之中。为此他开始实验一种更具现场感的工作方式，作品中单一的直线被物化为实体结构，既有的空间（现场的作品）成为受它改造与调整的视觉对象，原本现场空间中相对清晰的虚实分野则在它的扰动之下变得充满歧路，而身处其间的观者将会沿着自身视点的不断转移在多重界面的视觉（虚）空间中往复穿行。

展览的现场将是一个极具思辨性的视觉空间，内与外、虚与实等等这些彼此相对的空间属性全都相依其中，但同时这个空间又是一个收纳目光与承载身体的生命容器，观看是它所赋予的首要任务。所以，对于刘文涛而言，这一次他试图让观者投身于一种极尽开放的视觉现场中，用肉眼与身体洞悉不同属性空间的交界之处，借以感受由空间政治激发出的形式结构，从而完成对其本人艺术实验逻辑的自我梳理与自我界定。

We are honored to announce the opening of Liu Wentao’s third solo show, Boundary at the WHITE SPACE BEIJING on June 11, 2011, showcasing four of his new works. At the opening of the exhibition, the artist will be on site to carry out an experiment in a visual experience.

Liu Wentao continues working with the method of drawing straight lines in pencil on paper and canvas in this new series of works – but he no longer limits himself to focusing on the transmission of internal space and structure. Instead, he is focused on trying to incorporate external space into his own system of composition. To this end, he started experimenting with a stronger ‘live’ element: working on site in real time. The single line in his work materializes to become tangible structures – the existing space (of the venue) is rearranged and adjusted visually by this line. The originally clear boundaries of the venue become blurred – while the audience, who are themselves within the space, will also find their visual focus continually shifting between different realms of the virtual and the real.

The venue will become a highly speculative space: inside and outside, virtual and real – all these opposites will come together into one. But at the same time, the space is also a vessel for bodies of life and gazes; viewing becomes its premier mission. For Liu Wentao, it is an attempt to bring the observer into an extremely open visual venue, leading them to use the eye and the body to perceive the boundaries between the different kinds of spaces, and thus experience of the forms and structures that spatial politics evoke, so as to define and put in order the logic of his artistic experiment.