潮来出岛
王韬程个展
2012年10月13日至11月20日
开幕式：2012年10月13日周六5点至8点
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在男性与女性之间，在西方与东方之间，在现代与古典之间，在现实与梦想之间，在资本主义与社会主义之间，在抽象主义与写实主义之间，王韬程的艺术作品和他的个体身份，在各种矛盾中游走。
《潮来出岛》王韬程个展以完整的面貌呈现了在过去一年中艺术家的创作方向，它包括艺术家一贯擅长和钟爱的手绘长卷，需要透视观看的肖像，几件装置和一部在法兰克福现代实用美术馆的后花园拍摄的小电影。
潮来出岛是一种已经失传的舞蹈，艺术家沉迷于这些中文字中包涵的意境， 然而当他对该舞蹈进行考据时，信息的缺失带给他的失落感最终转变为他对世事的理解：一切本无来源，一切也无可终。使用“潮来出岛”用作手绘长卷和本次展览的题目，按照艺术家的解释，“这完全是我一厢情愿而已。"
《潮来出岛》 展出的作品如同一个个故事片段与场景设定，具有明显的叙事风格但是相互间并没有直接的逻辑关系。作品内容涉及古老欧洲的宫廷文化和具有中式风格的花园等场景，以及各种静物、人物和动物等。具象的手法和抽象的笔触相互穿插、衬托、牵制和限制，让人在觉得费解和憋闷的同时享受到华丽与唯美的视觉感受。
以同样命名为《潮来出岛》的手卷为例，这两张作品借以绚烂的细节探索了王韬程游离的世界——一个被水所淹的颐和园的角落，满布着古典风格的喷泉,一个穿着古代礼袍的女人抱着她的狗，一只孤独的乌鸦正在一根多利克柱子顶部叫着。
这件作品萦绕着一种不祥的预感——一个被斩首的人,一处血溅的地面或一对夫妇在窗口紧张地低语。宫殿的图像融合了中国传统宫殿和西方巴洛克式审美两种风格，折射出王韬程的在两种文化中盼求、渴望和怀旧情绪。
《潮来出岛》是艺术家的花园绘本和私密的精神宫殿，《潮来出岛》也是一部绘画、舞蹈、音乐、电影和流言的综合体。
潮来出岛
王韬程个展
2012年10月13日至11月20日
开幕式：2012年10月13日周六5点至8点
策展人：张冰
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What is Revealed by the Tide
Wang Taocheng Solo Show
October 13-November 20, 2012
Opening: 5-8pm, Saturday, October 13, 2012
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Nestled squarely in between the various poles of male and female, East and West, modern and ancient, reality and dreams, capitalist and socialist, abstract and realistart, Wang Taocheng’s artworks float through multifaceted contradictions.
“What is Revealed by the Tide,” presents a complete overview of his artistic direction over the past year. It includes his favored format of hand-scroll paintings, portraits with a palimpsest perspective, several installation works and a short videomade in the gardens of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt.
"What is Revealed by the Tide" is the name of a nearly lost dance form, but what entrances the artist is the aesthetic atmosphere contained in these words. When he began researching the original dance, he encountered a dearth of information — but his sense of loss eventually transformed into a new understanding of the world: there is no source of everything; at the same time there is also no end to everything.
The artworks exhibited in “What is Revealed by the Tide” involve many fragments of stories and settings. While the narrative style is evident in these works, there islittle direct or logical relationship between them. They depict ancient European court culture and Chinese gardens, as well as various still lifes, people and animals. Realism and abstract brush-strokes meld together, supporting each other while at the same time containing and limiting each other. This frustration of understanding also creates a sense of beauty and which engenders a subtle visual appreciation.
The two 5-m long scrolls which make up the “What is Revealed by the Tide” series explore this territory in luscious detail — a flooded corner of the Summer Palace filled with classical style fountains, a woman in period gown cradling her dog, a lone crow calling from the top of a Doric column.
This work is infused with a sense of foreboding – a decapitated figure, a blood spattered ground or a couple nervously whispering from a window. The scrolls reference Chinese traditional symbols and a Western baroque aesthetic reflecting Wang’s cultural deracination and sense of longing, desire and nostalgia.
What is Revealed by the Tide is at once an illustration of the artist's vision of garden lifestyles and also a personal memory palace. It is also a collection of paintings, dance, music, video and rumors.
What is Revealed by the Tide
Wang Taocheng Solo Show
October 13-November 20, 2012
Opening: 5-8pm, Saturday, October 13, 2012
Curated by Zoe Zhangbing
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夜莺 (局部), 墨水, 水彩, 矿物颜料, 茶叶水, 金粉, 宣纸 Nightingale (detail), ink, watercolor, mineral pigment, tea water, gold powder, xuan paper, 54 x 39.8 cm, 2010
潮来出岛 - 滴里球 二号 (局部), 墨水, 水彩, 矿物颜料, 茶叶水, 金粉, 宣纸, What is Revealed by the Tide No.2 (detail), ink, watercolor, mineral pigment, tea water, gold powder, xuan paper, 520 x 33 cm, 2012
潮来出岛 - 滴里球 二号 (局部), 墨水, 水彩, 矿物颜料, 茶叶水, 金粉, 宣纸, What is Revealed by the Tide No.2 (detail), ink, watercolor, mineral pigment, tea water, gold powder, xuan paper, 520 x 33 cm, 2012
潮来出岛 - 滴里球 一号, 墨水, 水彩, 矿物颜料, 茶叶水, 金粉, 宣纸, What is Revealed by the Tide No.1, ink, watercolor, mineral pigment, tea water, gold powder, xuan paper, 520 x 33 cm, 2012
潮来出岛 - 滴里球 一号, 墨水, 水彩, 矿物颜料, 茶叶水, 金粉, 宣纸, What is Revealed by the Tide No.1, ink, watercolor, mineral pigment, tea water, gold powder, xuan paper, 520 x 33 cm, 2012
潮来出岛 - 滴里球 一号, 墨水, 水彩, 矿物颜料, 茶叶水, 金粉, 宣纸, What is Revealed by the Tide No.1, ink, watercolor, mineral pigment, tea water, gold powder, xuan paper, 520 x 33 cm, 2012
