中国当代艺术中的动物方式及视觉表述

Animal Mode and Visual Expression in Contemporary Chinese Art

在当代艺术中动物问题及其形象的塑造成为中国当代艺术家常常触及的问题,并形成了以动物形象为主体的艺术表现方式。人类如何认识动物,如何构建关于动物与人的文化概念,如何利用动物的身体在视觉领域描绘与呈现自然和自我成为当代艺术中视觉表述的内容。用视觉文化的研究方法来看,动物方式只是一种表象,而动物形象及内容的表述则是视觉、机器、制度、话语、身体和比喻之间复杂的互动,[1]当代艺术中的动物方式承载和传达着当下的文化意义。

In contemporary art, animal issue and image becomes a subject of contemporary artists, and the artistic expression with animal images as the main content is formed. How to understand animals, how to build a cultural concept of animals and people, how to make use of animals’ figure in the visual field to portray and present the na-ture and ego are the content of visual representation in contemporary art. From the perspective of visual culture, ani-mal mode is a kind of representation, and the expression of the animal image and content is the complicated interac-tion among the visual, machine, system, discourse, body and metaphor. The animal mode of contemporary art bears and conveys the current cultural significance.