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“太野”

陈督兮 个展

展期：2019年5月11日至6月16日

开幕：2019年5月11日 · 下午3至6时

五五画廊荣幸地宣布：陈督兮个展“太野”将于5月11日下午开幕。此次将展示的是陈督兮新近完成的九件绢本，展览预计6月16日结束。这是陈督兮自2016年“动静等观”之后在五五画廊呈现的第二个个展。

近几年，登山成了陈督兮生活的常态。行走山间，逐渐归还于他一个属于自然的肉身。远古动能的绵延自何而来？什么是他的古老身体真正需要的？他开始思考这些问题。当他俯身翻越陡峭岩壁的缝隙时，岩石的颗粒清晰地映在膝盖的皮肤上；当他踩在干枯的树叶上，会腾起两个季节灰尘的味道；当他在面对悬崖时，当他抚摸苔藓时，当他在河道的石头上四肢并用上下腾挪时，当他的整个身体被镶嵌在青翠的深潭时，督兮慢慢有了答案。

这种实实在在的感知才是他可以信赖的。就像晴朗的夜晚只有月亮可以帮他在这个时空中找到存在的位置一样。督兮越来越怀疑理性与逻辑思维的可靠性。所以认知需要重塑，督兮的意思是他需要重塑关于为以身体的有限需求为原点而产生的认知。这个准绳理应在自然秩序中建立而非在文化经验中。或许在这背后有一个更加宏阔的规则。

我们对大地有很多维度的认知。在人类出现之前，大地走过了惊涛骇浪般的漫长历史 - 这是地质的历史。从冥古宙之始，到太古宙、元古宙、显生宙，然后是古生代、中生代、新生代，再然后是下面若干的纪，纪下分世、世下分期 、期下分时。这漫长的地质演变中，小行星数亿年的撞击形成了浩瀚无际的熔岩海；含有水分的陨石流星雨经过数千万年的轰炸，冷却后形成了海洋；海洋中火山喷发形成了岛屿，岛屿链接形成了大陆，大陆被挤压成高山，断裂成沟壑。生命灭绝又再生，周而复始。如此漫长的岁月被层层叠叠挤压在地下。 在如此庞大的时间刻度中，文明与地质形成的重叠是短暂的，因而也产生出一种巨大的张力，它让我们思考前路与归宿。有时候，我们的身体需要匍匐在大地上才可以听到它的鼻息，虽然我们的身体衍生于此，但总是对它知之甚少。用自然的身体去描绘自然，绘画也便是自然本身。让人的天然性与物的天然性保持一种互通和清明，个体的异质自会彰显。督兮所锤炼和努力的方向恰在于此。知返乃途，唯有让笔中的水与时间一起消逝。

陈督兮，1983年出生于四川成都。现生活、工作于北京。

Gallery 55 is pleased to announce that Chen Duxi's solo exhibition “Wild State” will be open on the 11th of May 2019. Comprising nine pieces of newly created mineral pigment on silk, the show is scheduled to end on the 16th of June. This is the second solo exhibition of the Beijing-based artist since “Two Sides of a Coin” in 2016. 

In recent years, mountaineering has become the norm of Duxi’s life. Gradually a body belonging to nature was returned to him by walking in the mountains. Where does this stretch of ancient kinetic energy come from? What does his ancient body really need? Duxi began to think about these questions. When he leans over a gap in the steep wall, the grains of rock are clearly reflected on the skin of his knees. When he steps on the dry leaves, two seasons dust flavor will rise. As he faces the cliff, as he touches the moss, as he moves up and down on the stones of the river, as his whole body is embedded in the deep green pool, Duxi slowly have the answer.

It is this tangible perception that Duxi can trust. Just like only the moon can help him find his place in this space-time on a clear night.

Duxi increasingly doubts the reliability of rational and logical thinking. So cognition needs to be remolden needs to be remolded. Duxi means he needs to remold his sense of what is adequate based on the needs of the body. This criterion should be established in the natural order rather than in cultural experience. Perhaps there is a broader rule behind this.

We have many dimensional knowledge of the earth. Before man, the earth had a long and stormy history - the history of geology. From the beginning of the Hadean Eon, to the Archean, Proterozoic, Phanerozoic, then to the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, and then to the following periods, from period to epoch, from epoch to age, from age to chron. During this long geological evolution, asteroid impacts over hundreds of millions of years created vast lava oceans. After tens of millions of years of bombardment, the hydrated meteorites cooled and formed oceans. Islands were formed by volcanic eruptions in the ocean. Continents were linked by islands. Continents were crushed into mountains and broken into gullies. Life goes extinct and regenerates, over and over again. So many years have been crushed beneath the ground. In such a large time scale, the overlap of civilization and geological formation is ephemeral, and thus produces a great tension, which makes us think about the way forward and the destination. Sometimes, we need to crawl our bodies on the ground to hear its breath. Although our bodies derived from this, we know very little about it. To depict nature with the body of nature, painting becomes nature itself. Let people's natural nature and the natural nature of things to maintain a kind of communication and clarity, individual heterogeneity will manifest. This is the direction Duxi has been training and striving for. There is no way back but to let the water in the pen fade away with time.

Chen Duxi was born in China in 1983. Currently he lives and works in Beijing, China.