作为物性、手艺和尺度的艺术史——李军教授访谈录

Art History as the Materiality,Craftsmanship and Scale:Interview with Professor Li Jun

图像有自己的物性,形式有本身的历史。创作不仅是手艺与媒介的彼此融合,更是情感与作品的相存相依,只要直面图像,就能看到“物”的本源与“人”的痕迹。用眼睛洞察万物,用身体丈量世界,每一个现象都有一个光年外的身影,每一个图形都是一次知识的传递。从原子的裂变,到高原的隆起,小物件也可以有大历史,小空间也能够看大秩序,这是“艺术史的艺术”,也是“有限的总体史”。

Images possess their own materiality,and forms have their own history.Creation is not only the integration of craftsmanship and medium,but the interdependence of emotions and works.By facing the images directly,one could see the origin of“objects”and the traces of“humans”.Through perceiving the world with eyes and measuring it with the body,each phenomenon has a parallel light-years away,and every graphic is a transmission of knowledge.From the fission of atoms to the uplift of plateaus,small objects could have a significant history,and little spaces might reveal great orders.This is“the art of art history”,and“une histoire totalisante limitée”.