福建曾经是“吾道南移”的文化避难之地,现在的福建雕塑群雄纷纷杀出群山重围,且呈风起云涌之势。任宏伟闽北建瓯人氏,其地乃宋代大儒朱熹古建州的教化之邦。其性情旷放,多才多艺。不泥小节,快人快语。毕业福建工艺美术学院雕塑专业,兼擅书画、刻字,其书往往醉后,任笔为体,八面出锋,犹见性灵。
相对于任宏感性一面,他的雕塑作品则体现出他深层的理性思考。
当你走近“十三亿”雕塑,从大人到小孩都乐呵呵、齐刷刷在数钱的时候,你的下意识里大概也会用手比划两下这个动作,然后莫逆于心,相视而笑。消费时代也就是耗材时代。经济与人口这一宏大主题,“十三亿”是人口抑或是经济,两个不同的概念巧妙地合二为一。一家三口象征社会的单元,稀有的(熊猫)与泛滥的(人口),发展的(经济)与抑制的(人口),不同图式的意象叠加。雕塑不言,花下成蹊。不说而说,这是作品微笑背后给观者的沉思。
婴儿的作品是“十三亿”系列的延伸,等于说是最近他又“添丁进财”了。在奶子房新的雕塑工作室(我戏称为育婴房),倒立的新生儿,还没开眼,一个抓着一把钞票,一个握着手枪,他们的脐带连着到手中吃饭的“家伙”,这是他们入世的“胎盘”。
这一生存的图式,渗透着社会的多元,交错着世间千丝万缕的关系网。这种复杂也意味着当代雕塑需要更深入关注多元社会的混合与交融,重要的不再是技术,而是于此透露出作品内在精神的“能见度”。如果说杜尚的作品带有艺术“是什么”的棒喝,波依斯则用他生命的体验告诉世人艺术就是“回向事物本身”。这二位当代艺术巨头的大是大非之间,任宏伟选择了自己的雕塑图式,通过以象传意路径,抵达观者的内心。
如是我观。
洪顺章
2007-8-21
My Opinion about “1.3 Billion”
Fujian province used to be the refuge for the culture extended to South China. Now, Fujian artists of sculpture become quite prominent with much influence. Born in Jian’ou of north Fujian where the famous scholar in Song Dynasty Zhu Xi initiated his education, Ren Hongwei is straightforward, unrestrained and versatile. Graduating from the sculpture department in Fujian College of Art & Design, Ren is skilled in painting, calligraphy and seal. He often creates calligraphy after drinking, and his style is flexible, unpredictable and carefree.
Compared with Ren’s emotional side, his sculptures reflect his profoundly rational contemplation.
When approaching the sculpture “1.3 Billion” and seeing that both the adults and children are smilingly counting money, the audience would probably imitate the gesture in sub-consciousness and then smile for understanding. Today is the times of consumption, and economy and population is a huge theme. Whether “1.3 Billion” is about population or economy is the tactful integration of these two different concepts. A family of three members representing the social unit, the rare (panda) and the overflowing (population), the developing (economy) and the restrained (population), images of different significance are overlapped. The sculpture is mute, however, it could attract numerous audience to walk towards it to form a path on the ground. Saying nothing but to enlighten the audience is the purpose of this sculpture, bringing meditation behind smiling.
The work of infant is the extension of the “1.3 billion” series, which means making a lot of money and having a baby born into the family. In his new sculpture studio in Naizifang, which I jokingly call “the nursery room”, each upside-down newborn baby with closed eyes takes a bunch of money in one hand and a gun in the other hand, and the umbilical cord is connected with the things in the hands, which is the placenta for it to enter the world.
This pattern of existence is permeated with social multiple elements and interwoven with complicated relation network. This intricacy also implies that contemporary sculpture needs more attention on the amalgamation of social multiple elements, and what’s important is the visibility of the work’s internal spirit instead of the skill. If Marcel Duchamp’s works enlighten us to think about what art is, the life experiences of Joseph Beuys tell the world that art is to return to the original appearance of the object itself. Among the concepts of these two contemporary art masters, Ren chooses his own pattern of sculpture to reach the audience’s internal world through the path of delivering meaning with image.
Abovementioned is my opinion.
Written by Hong Shunzhang
August 21, 2007
“十三亿”如是我观
“十三亿”如是我观
“十三亿”如是我观
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