徐震 2014年作 《光源 – 他们金色的身躯》

款识：徐震（画背）

Xu Zhen is widely known for his interdisciplinary practice that spans sculpture, installation, performance and painting. The present work is a striking example that belongs to the artist’s thought-provoking Light Source series, which Xu began creating in 2010. His inspiration for this series comes from his fascination with light and colour. Closer observation further reveals a conceptual dimension, whereby the artist uses artificial light sources to ingeniously obscure his paintings – addressing the role that technology and artificiality plays in our contemporary society today.



Taking reference from one of Paul Gauguin’s masterpieces And the Gold of Their Bodies, Xu’s present work is a reproduction of Gauguin’s and explores the various mediations that disrupt the viewer’s experience of an artwork, particularly in observing a culture that is not one’s own. The effect of the flash bulb encourages viewers to decipher what the light sources might entail. Xu Zhen's work combines the natural and the artificial, and the organic and the synthetic, often creating unrecognizable hybrid forms.



Xu Zhen’s The Gold of their Bodies brilliantly incorporates technical innovation with conceptual depth. Other works from the artist’s Light Source series were exhibited in his major retrospective held at the UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art in 2014.

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condition:
This work is in its original condition. There is no restoration apparent under Ultraviolet light. This work is framed in an artist's frame. Please note, this work has not been checked outside of its frame.

创作年代:
2014年作