“趣味的共同体”——伊比利亚当代艺术中心开幕展

我们抑或可以把一个展览的诞生归结为一个趣味的共同体的发现。这种发现，不同于以往我们会在艺术史的序列中寻找某一个合适的位置来安置这些被邀请的作品，也不同于我们试图跳出艺术史的框框条条，把艺术作品归为一种观念或思想的材料，以便于促成思想史的某些“发现”。如果我们确定要放弃前面两种努力，那么，只能说，我们在这些作品中发现了隐藏在我们内心的一个趣味的共同体，按照某种标准，这个共同体可以被分为成“奢侈的趣味”，“审慎的趣味”、“粗俗的趣味”，“对自由的趣味”等等诸多趣味形态——它们呈现出的差异、自相矛盾、甚至“对立”的程度，反映出拓展了的中国当代艺术的概念在今天的状态。 对趣味的共同体的发现，并由此来确定一个展览，意味着包容性的扩张。也就是说，当我们考察这些被邀请的作品所采用的样式（媒介）时，我们会发现趣味的分化出现了，尽管（作为“整体的”当代艺术）这种现象在1980年代是不太可能发生的。我们的意思是，当代艺术的经典样式（媒介），比如绘画、装置、摄影、表演等等，往往把作品的形式提升到内容之上——这是这样一种趣味，即我们对这些作品的理解必须动用过度的智力因素，而最终解释往往要归结为某种精心确立的仪式因素。另外一部分作品，比如独立影像，尤其是纪录片，我们发现，另外一种趣味出现了——它们几乎都是朴素的眼睛可以注视的再现的形象。如果我们把目光移到作品背后的作者，并去考察他们在社会中所处的位置时，或者考察他们在文化中所拥有的资本与权力时，也许我们会找到发生这种趣味分化的部分原因——也许这是一个僭越的、“不怀好意”的想法。 伊比利亚当代艺术中心开幕展分为视觉艺术和独立影像两个部分，我们不敢贸然断定这两者是否分属于不同的趣味系统。但是，对我们而言，也许真正的选择原则是趣味。如上所述，“趣味的共同体”这个主题至少可以让我们考察三个问题。第一，艺术媒介与趣味之间的关系（这里面蕴涵了更深层次的问题）；第二，展览策划人的趣味是否会面临自我质询；第三，展览的最终呈现会是何种趣味？ An exhibition could perhaps be regarded as the discovery of a community of tastes. This discovery is different from such approaches as to situate chosen works in the narrative of art history. It’s also not about trying to break away from the confines of art history and classifying the works of art as conceptual or intellectual materials in order to make possible a certain “discovery” in the history of thought. If we must forego the two previously mentioned options, we can only say that from the works we have chosen for this exhibition, we’ve discovered a community of tastes hidden inside of our heart. Based on a certain criterion, this community of tastes comprises of such a plurality of manifestations as “the luxurious taste,” “the prudent taste,” “the vulgar taste,” “the preference for freedom” and so on. The extent of differences, contradiction, and even “opposition” among them mirror the current state of the expanded concept of Chinese contemporary art. To uncover a community of tastes and to develop an exhibition concept based on it signals increased tolerance. When we examine the forms (media) the exhibited works take on, we realize the divisions of tastes among them, even though this kind of phenomenon (contemporary art as a “totality”) was unlikely to surface in the 1980s. Our point is that the classic forms (media) of contemporary art, such as painting, installation, photography, and performance, etc. tend to elevate the forms of art to be above its content – it’s a kind of taste that requires excessive mental power in order to fully understand these works. The ultimate interpretation of the works has to be attributed to certain painstakingly established rituals. On the other hand, in another genre of art, independent films, particularly documentary films, we notice a different taste emerging – almost all of them are representations of images that can be examined by our plain eyes. If we turn to those artists who have made these artworks, studying their status in the society, or investigating the cultural capital and power at their disposal, we may by chance find some reasons accounting for the diversification of tastes—probably this is just a self-assumed, and “evil-intentioned” idea. The Inaugural Exhibition of the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art consists of two sections, visual arts and independent films. For us, the genuine principle underlying our selection is taste, though we dare not to make a hasty conclusion as to whether they belong to two different taste systems or not. In summary, “Community of Tastes” as a theme at least leads us to three questions. Firstly, the relation between the choice of media in art and tastes (which contains further in-depth questions); secondly, whether the tastes of the curators will face challenges from themselves; and thirdly, what taste will be on display eventually? 策展人：左靖 卢迎华 影像单元策展人：张亚璇 展场设计：梁井宇 主展艺术家：艾未未 / 曹斐 / 蒋志/ 梁井宇 / 刘鼎 / 刘韡 / 欧宁 / 邱志杰 / 宋冬 / 汪建伟 / 王鲁炎 / 王卫 / 王兴伟 / 徐震 / 颜磊 / 杨福东 / 赵半狄 / 周铁海 / 朱金石 独立影像导演：杜海滨 / 冯艳 / 季丹 / 蒋志 / 李一凡 / 毛晨雨 / 欧宁 / 王兵 / 奥了+张亚璇 西班牙艺术家：哈伊麦•德•拉•哈拉 / 乔安•贝纳萨 / 胡安•戈米拉 / 何塞•马努埃尔•巴耶斯塔 /伊莎贝尔•姆纽兹 / 奥乌卡•勒雷 / 帕科•佩佩•波萨达 / 帕斯夸勒•卡普利乐 / 里奇•达维拉 / 夏娜•卡勒 开幕时间：2008年4月15日 展览时间：2008年4月15日—6月9日 开幕地址：中国•北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798艺术区伊比利亚当代艺术中心 中心开放时间：10:00am – 18:00pm （每周一休息） 展览链接： http://www.douban.com/event/10067069/