山——索福克勒斯、赫拉克勒斯、苏格拉底、荷马

MOUNTAINS——SOPHOCLES, HERCULES, SOCRATES, HOMER

作品《山》取自古哲学家(索福克洛斯、赫拉克勒斯、苏格拉底、荷马)头像的局部,艺术家巧妙地将雕塑胡子部分放大并倒放置在空间内。作品的缺失部分引发了观众对它究竟是何物的想象,倒置的哲学家头像雕塑远看像中国的假山,仿佛是将自然景观移至室内空间。艺术家在创造着新的经验的同时也挑战着观众的认知习惯。人们的认知在不断被城市影响的同时又对城市产生新的塑造。将《山》置于上海这样一座接纳了不同人群、融合了多元文化的大都市,将引发身处上海的观众对于自我认知及自身和城市关系的思考。

The artwork Mountains consists of elements sourced from portrait sculptures of ancient philosophers(Sophocles,Hercules,Socrates,Homer).The artist skillfully enlarged part of the beards of the sculptures and present them reversed in the space.The missing part of the works stimulates the endless imagination of the viewers on what they exactly could be.From a remote distance,the reversed philosophers’heads sculptures evoke Chinese stones,as if natural landscapes had been moved into an indoor space.