“Transience” Alex Carroll Solo Exhibition

“Transience” — Alex Carroll Solo Exhibition

Date: 6– 23 May, 2017

Exhibition Date: 8 April – 4 May, 2017After having received the MFA degree from RMIT University in Melbourne, American contemporary visual artist Alex Carroll has been living in Shanghai for the past 10 years, carrying on his artistic practice while instructing young emerging artists.

His latest “Transience” series are recent drawings that continue his examination of movement as it relates to time and the body. This theme, which he has explored since 2006, has been further informed by his experience of living 10 years in Shanghai, a city that is constantly evolving.

The work aims to bring attention to our natural state—to be in motion. This “Transient” series of drawings utilizes intentionally blurred, digital photographs as a starting point for expressing this collective experience, and to capture the ephemeral nature of our human existence in a city that is enveloped in constant change. The combined movement of the subject and the camera distort time and seizes fleeting moments. These moments, the artist believes, are worthy of acknowledging, worthy of revisiting, and worthy of being suspended from time.

Charcoal and pastel are used to allow for immediacy in regards to the mark, however it is a long and arduous task of constructing a large drawing. This duality that is experienced in the creative process further connects his work to these ideas of time and movement, and reconciling the past with the present. Through the process of creating these large works, the artist intends to lure time towards a point of intrusion; slowing down and immersing the viewer in the layers of frozen instances as evident by the process and the blurred, distorted subjects.

瞬间”— Alex Carroll个展

2017年5月6日至5月23日

拥有墨尔本皇家理工大学艺术硕士学位的美国当代视觉艺术家Alex Carroll在过去的十年间一直居于上海，从事着他的艺术实践并肩负着指导年轻新兴艺术家们的教育。

此次在诺易画廊展出的最新“瞬间”系列作品是艺术家探索时间与身体相关的一些列活动的延续性创作。自2006年起，Alex Carroll便开始了对这一主题的探索与实践。上海这座不断发展的城市也让他在创作上有了新的认识。这一系列作品旨在关注一直处于运动中的人类的自然状态，以模糊的数码照片为出发点，捕捉了人类在一个不断变化的城市中存在的那一瞬间的痕迹。其主体是动势和相机的结合，让时间失真变形，留下瞬间的动作。艺术家把相片转换成一种大尺寸的绘画作品， 在绘画过程中所付出的时间与作品中被捕捉的时间点形成一种强烈的对比，促使观者在视觉上去接受一种观点：即每一刻，无论多么短暂，都值得被回顾和审视，值得时间因此而静止。

这一系列作品是用炭笔和色粉笔来进行创作的，使艺术家能快速地记下瞬间停留的痕迹。然而重现这一瞬间的绘画过程又是漫长并艰难的，在经历了捕捉和绘画的两个记录过程后，时间和运动之间的关系让他更进一步的联系到了整个创作中。Alex把过去所发生的一个时间点与现在的某个时间段进行调和，把时间作为他创作上的切入点，慢慢地让观者沉浸在这种凝固静止的层层相叠的状态下，来突显他的创作过程以及那些模糊而变形的主体。