吉磊个展 |Ji Lei’s solo exhibition

吉磊个展 |Ji Lei’s solo exhibition

开幕：2月24日，16:00 - 19:00| Opening: Feb. 24th, 4pm to 7pm
展期：2011年2月24日 - 3月20日| Dates: Feb. 24th till Mar. 20th, 2011
时间：周二 - 周日 12:00 - 18:30| Time: Tue till Sun,?12am to 6:30pm
北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院798艺术区706后街一号

Boers-Li Gallery荣幸的宣布，我们将于2011年2月24日到3月20日展出艺术家吉磊的个展“游戏之地”。本次展览将是我们2011年的首展，该展览包括了艺术家最新的20余件油画作品。

吉磊以游乐园为母题的系列开始于2009年。其视角聚集于那些废弃的游乐设施，翻滚的过山车、蹦极和空中悬挂的飞人。在今天的都市中，游乐场已经不再是儿童的专利，或者说它们正在成为成人的专利。作为规整化的都市生活的一个补充，游乐场提供了一个富有安全保障，无伤大雅同时廉价的冒险空间。都市时代的游乐场取代的是前都市化时代的对于未知地域的探险。不同是的是《人猿泰山》中的飞荡藤条变成了钢索，《金刚》中被漩涡裹挟的船只变成了过山车，瀑布成为被隐藏的人造喷泉。在艺术家看来，如果说这些无伤大雅的冒险是都市人情感宣泄的一种方式的话，那么所谓的游乐场不过是都市人情绪的垃圾场。人们花钱来到这里，进行一些冒险的仪式，然后释放掉负面的情绪。这多少有些类似原始宗教中的“祛魔”仪式，也因此游乐场成为了当代社会的一个祭坛和道场。

Boers-Li Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Ji Lei entitled Place of Games and including 20 recent paintings to open 24 February and run through 30 March 2011.

Ji Lei’s series of work oriented around the figure of the amusement park was initiated in 2009, focusing on such images as derelict attractions, a twisting roller coaster, and a bungee jumper suspended in midair. In the contemporary metropolis, the amusement park is no longer limited to children but is rather in process of becoming an adults-only entertainment. As a supplement to the standard conformity of the city, it provides a space of affordable adventure alongside a guarantee of safety and trivial diversion; the amusement park of the urban age replaces the exploration of unknown territory that characterized ages past. Now the swinging vines of Tarzan of the Apes have become steel cables and the ship trapped in the vortex of King Kong has been reduced to a roller coaster, just as waterfalls are transformed into hidden artificial fountains. For Ji Lei, the emotional catharsis people of the city find in such petty diversions indicates that the amusement park represents a junkyard of urban affect. Visitors pay a fee to enter, engage in a set of ceremonies of risk, and release their negative emotions, a trajectory that often resembles the exorcism rituals of primitive religion: the amusement park becomes an altar for the rites of contemporary society.

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