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砖 造像

青砖——中国古代农业文明的象征物,秦朝秦始皇动用大量劳动力，使用砖石建造举世闻名的“万里长城”。红砖——49年以后，大跃进时期全国上下疯狂使用的基础建筑材料；水泥——工业时代的符号，后工业时代认为的廉价建筑材料。这三种象征着三个时代的建筑材料成为了艺术家戴耘的艺术媒介。

戴耘是一个70年代出生于古城西安的雕塑艺术家，2000年移居到中国改革开放的一线城市深圳，怀着对秦砖汉瓦的依恋生活在了一个充满混凝土建筑的新兴城市，经历了几个时代的剧烈变迁，最终找到了自己的艺术语言。戴耘的作品用砖“砌”成，但他砌砖的方式却是对传统的消解和重新的认识。无论是古代造像还是各种器物，作品细部会发现砖的粗糙，会有一些空洞、裂缝、杂质。这恰恰与历史遗痕发生了很微妙的联系，人们与历史之间的关系被重新审视。

“我尤其对秦砖汉瓦这种由黏土而来经人工烧制后，即坚固耐用又大气、素朴的东西厚爱有佳。当这种农业社会最基础的建筑符号与当代中国迅速市场化、城市化的背景相碰撞，会产生怎样的话题和感受对我来讲是有兴奋点的。我喜欢这些现代社会批量化生产的瓶瓶罐罐，是我认同商品化社会基础“契约关系”的路径。然而商品化社会几乎无可避免的“商品拜物教”又使我追忆自然经济的素朴和有节制。这里砖再一次成为我的材料。”戴耘如此说道。

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Bricks Sculptures

Grey Bricks – the symbol of the ancient Chinese agricultural society, the material with which Emperor Qin built The Great Wall Red Bricks – the building material that the post 1949 Communist China used during the Great Leap Forward vehemently; and the Concrete – the inexpensive material that became widely used in construction in the Industrial Age. These three materials, representative of three different eras of Chinese history, have now been transformed into the artistic medium of the young, contemporary artist Dai Yun for his sculpture.

Born in the seventies in the ancient city of Xi’an, Dai Yun moved to Shenzhen, the first Special Economic Zone in China in 2000. Deeply fascinated by the ancient durable bricks and tiles dated back to Qin Dynasty in his hometown yet living in a hustling and bustling city populated with concrete high-rise, Dai Yun witnessed the changes in the country and gradually found his individual artistic language. He uses grey and red bricks in a brand new way to create his sculptural works. No matter they are classical figures or vessels and daily objects, the rough texture and cracks of the bricks give the detailed sculptures rich historical flavours, bringing to the audience some novel insights to the relations of men and their own history.

“I am particularly interested the bricks and tiles making during the Qin and Han Dynasties. Handmade from clay, these durable bricks contain the charm of simplicity and are a great medium for expressions. By using bricks - the basic building materials in the agricultural society, to express the urban life and features in modern China gives the works fascinating visual tension between medium and image. I like the mass-produced pots and pans in the commercialised world today, yet the plague of our materialistic world make me treasure even more the simple society in the ancient times. Here, I use bricks as my medium for the sculptures again”, said Dai Yun