托尼·克拉格:雕塑与绘画展

TONY CRAGG:SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS

托尼·克拉格最早与国内观众相遇的时间应该是2005年。在第二届北京双年展上,他就夺得了雕塑的一等奖。令人困惑的是,本次展览,一个在外交层面上展开的非常官方的活动,却似乎有意忽略了这个本土奖项。倒是艺术家本人,经常将这个奖与他获得的其他荣誉郑重地并列在一起,比如1988年的特纳奖和2007年的日本高松殿下纪念世界文化奖。应该说,2005年的那一届北京双年展被号称是当时世界上最大规模的国际当代美术和雕塑双年展,尽管在当代艺术世界里,积极谈论它的不多。就这一点,我们还是可以隐约体会到克拉格作品的某种保守和温和色彩。

The earliest encounter between Tony Cragg and Chinese audiences was in 2005 during the second Beijing International Art Bien- nale, where the British sculptor won First Prize. Perplexingly-especially as this exhibition functioned also on the diplomatic level, as part of the British Council＇s UK Now festival, but also because Cragg himself often cites it alongside his 1988 Turner Prize and 2007 Praemium Imperiale-this fact was quite plainly ignored here.